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Would you like to go to space?

  • 16-12-2016 01:31AM
    #1
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,418 ✭✭✭✭
    Ms


    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.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • #2
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    In space nobody can hear you scream.


  • #3
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Space would be a decent bit of craic.


  • #4
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


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


  • #5
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


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


  • #6
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


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


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  • #7
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #8
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    In space nobody can hear you scream.

    It is very cold, in space.


  • #9
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #13
    Esel
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    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    In space nobody can hear you cream.

    FYP

    Not your ornery onager



  • #14
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


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


  • #15
    Wibbs
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    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.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #16
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


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


  • #18
    Taylor365
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    learn_more wrote: »
    It is very cold, in space.
    Or very hot..


  • #19
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    There is peace and quiet up there right?


  • #20
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    U-2 spy plane no farther


  • #21
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,567 ✭✭✭✭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!!


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  • #22
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


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

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #23
    evil_seed
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    Aren't we technically already in space?


  • #24
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


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


  • #25
    BrokenArrows
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    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.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #27
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,696 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #28
    eurokev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 ✭✭✭eurokev


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


  • #29
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


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


  • #30
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭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.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #31
    Boom_Bap
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    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.


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