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space cadets
By Martin English | December 15, 2005
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.
Channel 4 is blasting a group of adventurers, ordinary members of the public, off into space to spend five days orbiting the earth. It’s thrilling, it’s exciting, and it’s totally bogus.
In fact, the cadets will be on a disused military base in Suffolk.
Our group of thrill seekers will experience two weeks of intensive astronaut training believing they are in Star City, near Moscow, and labouring under the illusion that they are part of a real space mission.
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.
Apparently, any prospective ‘astronaut’ who showed even the slightest glimmer of comprehension of rudimentary physics was automatically disqualified. Love the quote from one of the profiles.
…describes himself as funny, intelligent, charming and considerate.
Apparently, on the last episode, the TV show fakes a leak in the station and they have five minutes to decide which of the three gets the two working space suits. Sort of like Lord of the Flies in space. I bet they will think it is soooooo funny when they find out it is just a TV show.
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