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Jeff Bezos went to space yesterday.
He took along with him three crew members – his brother Mark, 82-year-old female aeronautics pioneer Wally Funk, who became the oldest person to ever go to space, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, who became the youngest.
During their roughly four-minute spell in zero gravity, they tossed around some ping pong balls, ate Skittles, and marvelled at Earth from afar.
With that out of the way, let’s talk about the memes and jokes, starting with this list from Mashable:
Jeff Bezos was in space for 5 minutes—or as its known at the Amazon warehouse, your allotted break time for a 16-hour day
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 20, 2021
Congrats to Jeff Bezos on his successful rocket launch. And also for totally not overcompensating for something pic.twitter.com/fI3OMxiaVQ
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) July 20, 2021
Quite the liftoff. pic.twitter.com/6JzR1Rfu9Z
— Matt Mullin (@matt_mullin) July 20, 2021
One small step for man, one giant step for money.
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) July 20, 2021
You came here for the memes, so I’ll spare you the ‘this amount of money could have been better spent on XYZ’ stuff.
Next up, the obvious Austin Powers crossover:
The penis jokes were a dime a dozen. CNET compiled these:
Congratulations on you penis rocket now pay your taxes
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos makes a dong rocket as the ultimate form of compensation.
Guys with lifted trucks everywhere: NOT THAT SMALL NOW, IS IT?!
— Dude_Abides (@traininsane17) July 20, 2021
We move on:
oh no what if jeff bezos travels through time and lands on a future earth ravaged by humanity’s ignorance
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 20, 2021
hard to imagine a better divorce outcome than getting 50 billion dollars and then your ex literally leaves the planet
— muscle skoals (@MuscleSkoals) July 19, 2021
Well Jeff Bezos flight was over pretty quick.
Ex-wife: The things I could tell you.
— _JustMarie (@mooseandriosmom) July 20, 2021
Still, you want more?
Demanding, but sure. These come via Nylon:
Jeff Bezos you have the ability to end world hunger. You also have the ability to take a teen to space. Which do you— oh ok that was fast
— broti gupta (@BrotiGupta) July 20, 2021
are you all really gonna sit here and tell me this isn’t a kevin spacey character pic.twitter.com/OsP9x9102n
— keaton kilde (@keatonkildebell) July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos’ rocket looked like a penis because if it looked like a vagina, Congress would have made laws to make it harder for it to fly.
— Cristela Alonzo (@cristela9) July 20, 2021
Aaaand we’re back to penis jokes.
Full circle.
Let’s finish with Elon Musk getting a subtle jab in:
Nice
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2021
Nice.
