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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. Re:Laughing at the handicapped by cornface · · Score: 0, Troll

    If one doesn't learn because one has no interests other than looking good for the opposite sex, their ignorance is their fault and we can laugh at them.

    Yes, because getting laid sucks!

    Boooooo!

    BOOOOOOOO!

  2. Re:The "Casting Call" episodes must be the best by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just stop talking. You have no idea what you're talking about.

    For starters: there is no location is the solar system that experiences "zero gravity". Notice all the objects orbiting the sun? Gravity. Weightlessness in orbit has nothing to do with zero gravity. A person in low orbit will be just as weightless as a person in geosynchronous orbit. You are weightless because you are in permanent free fall, not because there is no gravity. You can get the same experience in a plane. Remember the zero-g sports article about using planes? Yeah. As long as you are in free fall you will feel weightless.

    People are stupid. And they deserve what is coming to them.