William Shatner Speech After Blue Origin Space Flight Transcript
[Transcript of William Shatner’s remarks after his Blue Origin space flight on October 13, 2021.]
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William Shatner: (00:00)
Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to
see. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable. I mean, the little things, the
weightlessness. But to see the blue color go whip by, and now you’re
staring into blackness. That’s the thing. The covering of blue is this
sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around. We
think, “Oh, that’s blue sky.” And there’s something you shoot through,
and all of a sudden, as though you whip a sheet off you when you’re
asleep, and you’re looking into blackness, into black ugliness. And you
look down. There’s the blue down there and the black up there. And there
is mother and Earth and comfort. And there… Is there death? I don’t
know. Was that death? Is that the way death is? Whoop and it’s gone.
Jesus.
William Shatner: (01:10)
It was so moving to me. This experience been something unbelievable. You
see, yeah, you know, weightless. My stomach went up. I’m like, “God,
this is so weird.” But not as weird as the covering of blue. This is
what I’ve never expected. Oh, it’s one thing to say, “Oh, the sky and
the thing and the fragile… ” But it’s all true. But what isn’t true,
what is unknown, until you do it, is this pillow. There’s this soft
blue. Look at the beauty of that color. And it’s so thin, and you’re
through it in an instant. It’s what… How thick is it? Do we know?
Jeff Bezos: (01:56)
The atmosphere?
William Shatner: (01:57)
Is it a mile? Two miles?
Jeff Bezos: (01:58)
No. It depends on how you measure it, because it thins out, but maybe 50 miles.
William Shatner: (02:02)
But you’re going 2,000 miles an hour. So you’re through 50 miles at whatever the mathematics says.
Jeff Bezos: (02:08)
Fast. Yeah. Really fast.
William Shatner: (02:10)
It’s like a beat and a beat, and suddenly you’re through the blue.
Jeff Bezos: (02:12)
And then it’s black.
William Shatner: (02:13)
And you’re into black. And you’re into… Ah, it’s mysterious and galaxies
and things. But what you see is black. And what you see down there is
light, and that’s the difference. And not to have this? You have done
something. I mean, whatever those other guys are doing, what isn’t… I
don’t know about that. What you have given me is the most profound
experience I can imagine. I’m so filled with emotion about what just
happened. It’s extraordinary. Extraordinary.
William Shatner: (02:55)
I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel
now. I don’t want to lose it. It’s so much larger than me and life. And
it hasn’t got anything to do with the little green man [inaudible
00:03:16] of the blue or… It has nothing to do with that. It has to do
with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death
and the… Oh, my God. [inaudible 00:03:29].
Jeff Bezos: (03:25)
It’s so beautiful.
William Shatner: (03:31)
Beautiful. Yes. Beautiful in its way. But-
Jeff Bezos: (03:33)
No, I mean your words.
William Shatner: (03:34)
Oh, my words.
Jeff Bezos: (03:36)
That’s just amazing.
William Shatner: (03:38)
I don’t know. I can’t even begin to express what… What I would love to
do is to communicate, as much as possible, the jeopardy, the moment you
see the vulnerability of everything. It’s so small. This air, which is
keeping us alive, is thinner than your skin. It’s a sliver. It’s
immeasurably small, when you think in terms of the universe. It’s
negligible.
Speaker 3: (04:22)
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