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Reality TV "Astronauts" Lift Off

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-do-you-find-people-this-stupid dept.

RJG writes "In the latest reality show on British TV, three British "space tourists" last night succesfully blasted off on a five day mission and are currently orbiting the earth 200 miles up. Or so they think. And to forestall the first question. They aren't experiencing weightlessness due to a combination of being in a low orbit (rather than outer space where the weightlessness is) and a few under-floor gravity generators."

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  1. ha! by Beatbyte · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Finally proof they're just as stoopid as us Americanos :D

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  2. British in space? by tulmad · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We all know the British can hardly get someone up a ladder, much less to the moon.

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  3. Re:America has officially lost its monopoly on stu by ndansmith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No way! Many American reality shows and even the concept of reality tv are borrowed from Great Britain. Yes, though many Americans would hate to admit it, the US is still culturally reactive to Britain and Europe at large.

  4. Re:The "Casting Call" episodes must be the best by JPriest · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What's the point of tricking the dufuses this way, other than to ridicule them and to show you can do it?

    Sounds like religion.

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  5. Re:America has officially lost its monopoly on stu by banuk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Technically speaking, all objects are gravity generators :).
     
    Especially the fat american ones.

  6. Re:America has officially lost its monopoly on stu by A+Brand+of+Fire · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In other news, American President George W. Bush announced today a new program to curtail the dwindling number of the country's morons with his new No Stupid Person Left Behind program. The President declined to comment on the diverting of funds from the No Child Left Behind and NASA spending programs to this new plan, but did state that he planned to "nip this epidemic in the bud."

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