Would you like to go to space?

AMKC

If yes then ring Nasa or even the Russians should find there number online somewhere am sure they will send you but ok joke aside lol.

I love watching sci-fi shows and would love to see this beautiful blue ball we call Earth from space but not sure Id like what space would do to my muscles and all the other effects. If only we had artificial gravity on the ISS and spaceships then Id be much more willing to go.

Atoms for Peace

In space nobody can hear you scream.

mzungu

Space would be a decent bit of craic.

Ted111

There's no such thing as space.
It was faked by Stanley Kubrick who shot it in a warehouse.

wil

I'm already in space. It's not as empty as you'd think.

Zaph

Becoming an astronaut is my dream job when I grow up.

whiskeyman

Zaph wrote: »

Becoming an astronaut is my dream job when I grow up.

Don't go to college so and quit school asap.
My parents always said, with a good education the sky's the limit!

learn_more

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

In space nobody can hear you scream.

It is very cold, in space.

learn_more

AMKC wrote: »

I love watching sci-fi shows and would love to see this beautiful blue ball we call Earth from space but not sure Id like what space would do to my muscles and all the other effects. If only we had artificial gravity on the ISS and spaceships then Id be much more willing to go.

Sorry to spoil your sci-fi but almost every space movie sees craft travelling on a 2 dimensional plane, like roads. Whereas space is 3d.

There are no roads in space.

Beanntraigheach

I was there on holidays last year.
It's massively overrated TBH, the zero-gravity becomes tiresome very quickly. I wouldn't bother going back.

Canis Lupus

I'd like a quick visit but long term space ****s your body up so unless we sort those problems out I'll stay where I am.

Junkyard Tom

Ah no, like. Shure why whouldya wanta leeve Cork City? Nod only is it d'reel capital, 'tis de centre of da universe too, bai!

Esel

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

In space nobody can hear you cream.

FYP

Felix Jones is God

Take a trip to the Dáil, plenty of spacers there...

Wibbs

I'd love to do a "short" jaunt to the moon say, but not much beyond that with today's tech. Space is badly named when it comes to human experience of it, "Cramped" would be a better title. With the subtitle of "constantly deadly". Going to Mars in a craft the size of the international spec station wouldn't be too bad, but we're a while off sending something that roomy. Imagine spending six months with other people in something not much roomier than a minivan.

Maximus Alexander

A day trip or maybe a few days would be great, but I doubt if it's the kind of place you'd want to hang around for long. I'd jump at the chance to experience it though.

The_Valeyard

Would absolutely terrify me, but really want to go into space.

Taylor365

learn_more wrote: »

It is very cold, in space.

Or very hot..

Winterlong

There is peace and quiet up there right?

SEPT 23 1989

U-2 spy plane no farther

AndyBoBandy

I'd love to go but as technology currently stands in regards to launches/re entry's, I'd be nowhere in the world fit enough to do it!!

OldGoat

To go boldly, or to boldly go; that is the question.

evil_seed

Aren't we technically already in space?

Maximus Alexander

It think it's safe enough to assume he meant outer space.

BrokenArrows

learn_more wrote: »

Sorry to spoil your sci-fi but almost every space movie sees craft travelling on a 2 dimensional plane, like roads. Whereas space is 3d.

There are no roads in space.

They travel in all 3 dimensions, sometimes even the 4th!!
Just just show it on a tv as traveling left to right, because any other way would just be weird.

riffmongous

learn_more wrote: »

Sorry to spoil your sci-fi but almost every space movie sees craft travelling on a 2 dimensional plane, like roads. Whereas space is 3d.

There are no roads in space.

The planets are planar though, so in a solar system 2d is fine.

looksee

Originally Posted by AMKC View Post
I love watching sci-fi shows and would love to see this beautiful blue ball we call Earth from space but not sure Id like what space would do to my muscles and all the other effects. If only we had artificial gravity on the ISS and spaceships then Id be much more willing to go.

learn_more wrote: »

Sorry to spoil your sci-fi but almost every space movie sees craft travelling on a 2 dimensional plane, like roads. Whereas space is 3d.

There are no roads in space.

I am failing to see where AMEK said anything about roads or how many dimensions spaceships travelled in?

eurokev

I don't know about being an astronaut but I'd love to be a spaceship driver

Boom_Bap

What's the pizza situation in space, any decent places to get a slice?

OldGoat

Boom_Bap wrote: »

What's the pizza situation in space, any decent places to get a slice?

Due to the partial pressure of the vacuum acting on the bubbles of CO2 in the bread dough the pizzas tend to be more deep pan than thin crust thus only earning a 2 star review from me.

Boom_Bap

OldGoat wrote: »

Due to the partial pressure of the vacuum acting on the bubbles of CO2 in the bread dough the pizzas tend to be more deep pan than thin crust thus only earning a 2 star review from me.

That's tough man, what about stuffed crusts, do they over compensate with sauce for the dough situation.

I'm already turning off space here.

blue note

Ted111 wrote: »

There's no such thing as space.
It was faked by Stanley Kubrick who shot it in a warehouse.

I heard that he did indeed fake the moon landing, but was such a perfectionist had to film on location so went to the moon to do it.

Estrellita

I wouldn't be the best down here with open spaces, I'm fairly sure I'd have a coronary if I was sent up there. So that would be a no Ted.

AMKC

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd love to do a "short" jaunt to the moon say, but not much beyond that with today's tech. Space is badly named when it comes to human experience of it, "Cramped" would be a better title. With the subtitle of "constantly deadly". Going to Mars in a craft the size of the international spec station wouldn't be too bad, but we're a while off sending something that roomy. Imagine spending six months with other people in something not much roomier than a minivan.

Exactly and not been able to go outside unless you had a spacesuit on which would feel even more cramped and you would have to stay near the ship.

JupiterKid

Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. It would be the ultimate trip!

mzungu

Wibbs wrote: »

Imagine spending six months with other people in something not much roomier than a minivan.

Sounds like the average student apartment!

LordSutch

Would be interesting for a week or two on the space station. Check out the dried food suppliments, rehydrating pot noodles in space! Being tied down in a hammock at night, so that you don't fly off and hit the ceiling. Gravity boots & swish><swish Star Trek type doors. Looking down at earth with binoculars while & going to the loo without any gravity... might loose a little weight and get a bit taller too?

Exciting.

Temptamperu

Are ye mad? I dont even like going as far as the shops.

stoneill

You can be an Astronaut without ever going into space.
However you only become a Cosmonaut after you compete your first space flight.
So there.

Didas

On the one hand I'd love to see it, on the other I don't even like 1hr flights to London, so I'd probably hyperventilate and die before the rocket left the atmosphere

learn_more

looksee wrote: »

I am failing to see where AMEK said anything about roads or how many dimensions spaceships travelled in?

I'm sorry but I opened that bottle of Bushmills a week too early. My apologies

Junkyard Tom

AMKC wrote: »

Exactly and not been able to go outside unless you had a spacesuit on which would feel even more cramped and you would have to stay near the ship.

Space suits are essentially small human-shaped spacecraft.

Not a lot of people know that.

corner of hells

Would I get a laser gun if I went into space ?

PEW PEW PEWWWWWWW....

DEFTLEFTHAND

Give me a cynanide tablet for insurance and yes I would like to become part of the NASA space programme.

What's the story with vaping up there though? Can you bring the Vape with you??

If not would you be allowed to light up a Pall Mall Red in space?

Wibbs

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Give me a cynanide tablet for insurance and yes I would like to become part of the NASA space programme.

Hardly a need for a poison pill to be fair. I always thought the notion some have that astronauts for example on the moon shots had cyanide pills in case something went wrong a bit mad like. Not when space itself is seconds away from death, all the time. Just open a air valve or the door of the spacecraft and game over. In hard vacuum you're going to black out within a few seconds and dead within minutes*. A slow release of air leading to hypoxia would be far more "comfortable" than cyanide too.






*though unlike in films you could survive brief exposure to hard vacuum. A couple of people have in the early days of testing pressure suits here on Earth. Though oddly if you had to jump from one spaceship to another(and could manage it in under ten seconds) the trick is to hyperventilate first then expel all the air from your lungs, not hold your breath.

Tom Mann Centuria

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

U-2 spy plane no farther

The programme where James May went up in one was brilliant television, I agree with you, I'd see all I needed to see from a U2

Heckler

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

The programme where James May went up in one was brilliant television, I agree with you, I'd see all I needed to see from a U2

That was some show. Would do it in a heartbeat.

Heckler

Wibbs wrote: »

Hardly a need for a poison pill to be fair. I always thought the notion some have that astronauts for example on the moon shots had cyanide pills in case something went wrong a bit mad like. Not when space itself is seconds away from death, all the time. Just open a air valve or the door of the spacecraft and game over. In hard vacuum you're going to black out within a few seconds and dead within minutes*. A slow release of air leading to hypoxia would be far more "comfortable" than cyanide too.






*though unlike in films you could survive brief exposure to hard vacuum. A couple of people have in the early days of testing pressure suits here on Earth. Though oddly if you had to jump from one spaceship to another(and could manage it in under ten seconds) the trick is to hyperventilate first then expel all the air from your lungs, not hold your breath.

I think there was a scene like that in maybe Sunshine although I might have the wrong film. Fella went unsuited from one ship to another.

Wibbs

Heckler wrote: »

I think there was a scene like that in maybe Sunshine although I might have the wrong film. Fella went unsuited from one ship to another.

Yeah another one was in 2001 a space odyssey. I would not like to try it for real. You'd be fairly fecked up afterwards.

I would live a run to the Moon alright. Not so much Mars. Mars has a romantic pull on humanity, but it is just as deadly as the Moon, but much much further away.

Alf Stewart.

mzungu wrote: »

Space would be a decent bit of craic.

Na. Last time I was there, there was absolutely no atmosphere.

osarusan

Never again.