Would you like to go to space?

blue note · 16-12-2016 01:27PM

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 · 16-12-2016 01:31PM

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 · 16-12-2016 07:45PM

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 · 16-12-2016 07:53PM

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

mzungu · 16-12-2016 08:56PM

Wibbs wrote: »

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

Sounds like the average student apartment!

LordSutch · 16-12-2016 10:06PM

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 · 16-12-2016 10:11PM

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

stoneill · 16-12-2016 10:26PM

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 · 16-12-2016 10:56PM

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 · 18-12-2016 12:58AM

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 · 18-12-2016 01:07AM

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 · 18-12-2016 05:47AM

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

PEW PEW PEWWWWWWW....

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-12-2016 06:59AM

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 · 18-12-2016 10:48AM

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 · 18-12-2016 10:51AM

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 · 18-12-2016 10:57AM

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 · 18-12-2016 10:59AM

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 · 18-12-2016 11:26AM

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. · 18-12-2016 11:27AM

mzungu wrote: »

Space would be a decent bit of craic.

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

osarusan · 18-12-2016 12:18PM

Never again.

nice_guy80 · 18-12-2016 12:57PM

I know a few people I'd like to shoot into space

mzungu · 18-12-2016 01:46PM

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

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

:pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI

DEFTLEFTHAND · 18-12-2016 02:44PM

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.

Ya you're right Wibbs. I always thought they were given suicide pills for some reason. I must have seen it in a movie or something.

Like you say it's very easy to die in space, there's no need to suffer a terrible death like cynanide poisoning.

Skommando · 18-12-2016 02:45PM

There's plenty space cadets here already, I don't need to go to space to see more of them

Capt'n Midnight · 18-12-2016 03:06PM

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.

Columbus' biggest ship was about 19m long and had a crew of 40.

WWII Submarines had a similar crew in even more cramped quarters.

Grayson · 18-12-2016 03:11PM

Honestly, if I was given the chance I wouldn't say no. I know it would be tough and probably a batsh1t crazy but I'd be even more nuts not to take a chance like that.

Of course the chances of me passing any physical necessary is pretty much nil.

And there's alwats the risk of SPACE DEMENTIA!

Would you like to go to space?

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