Misread this...
"Peake will spend the next week undergoing tests to ascertain the impact on his body of living in space, and getting used to gravity again." as "... getting used to gravy again."
Major Tim Peake comes home to a gastronaut's Sunday roast
What better way for Major Tim Peake to celebrate his homecoming after six months in space than with buckets of meat and veg - a roast dinner - strategically placed on a giant plate to look like him. Peake, who touched down on terra firma in Kazakhstan at the weekend, previously listed the Sunday favourite as his top nosh and …
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Monday 20th June 2016 13:10 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Misread this...
Well you have to eat with special utensils in space - because liquids behave all funny, and you don't want them spread all round the station, and in the air filters.
So he's been leading a gravy-less (as well as almost gravityless) exisitence for the last 6 months. And now has to master the delicate task of getting foods such as cabbage or yorkshires into his mouth, without dribbling gravy down his chin / shirt.
Hopefully this is part of the vital space medicine research that he is undertaking.
Obviously radiation exposure and loss of bone density are a massive problem to be overcome on any trip to Mars. But it's a concept too horrible to contemplate, that returning astronauts might find themselves medically unable to eat yorkshire puddings again!
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Monday 20th June 2016 13:12 GMT I ain't Spartacus
2.5kg of roasties and 46 Yorkshire puddings, 2.5kg of meat and one litre of gravy.
Please tell me that this stuff got eaten, after the photo was taken. And quickly too! Surely they can't have allowed all that cruncy yorkshire and roastie delicousness to go to waste?
Oh and some vegetables too...
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Monday 20th June 2016 16:12 GMT Baldy50
Re: Food Glorious Food!
Piss off, we're not all tree huggers and vegies ya know!
Could handle the crap food as long as there was something nice to wash it down with, it's the other part of the cycle that creeps me out.
Just how much poo's floating around up there any way along side all the space junk, do they bring it back or do they still jettison it?
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Monday 20th June 2016 16:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
Can someone fill me in...
What was his mission?
All I saw him do was read a bedtime story on cbeebies. When can we expect a full report on all the research he managed to conduct?
If I went away for 6 months on business my boss would expect miracles to have been achieved.
Presumably he did a bit more than that. If not the BBC can fucking whistle for its license fee. Im not paying for them to rocket someone up to space to read a fucking story.
My lad wasn't even interested. I said to him "look lad hes in space" all he did was shit his nappy, crawl off and start huffing his favourite blanket like a meth addict.
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Tuesday 21st June 2016 16:45 GMT Uffish
Re: Can someone fill me in...
https://principia.org.uk/the-mission/experiments-in-space/
That's a list of some of what he was doing and I would imagine that the full documentation of his work program would have a mass considerably higher than that of Tim Peake. Also, I imagine that he followed the work plan, or if not, the fully approved and vetted, modified work plan. So he did what his bosses wanted.
I only saw a couple of 360° flips and a clip from a live question and answer session where he 'disappeared' - it went down well with the school kids.
All in all, "mission accomplished" I think.
The UK has finally decided to play a bigger part in the space business, I'm very impressed that we have, for once, got back to some joined-up government thinking.
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Monday 20th June 2016 18:44 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Ethnocentric reporting
Chris Hadfield got a lot of coverage. Because of that song he, well seemingly his son, released - plus all his excellent (and popular) YouTubery. He got more coverage than anybody on the ISS that I can remember. Even more than Luca Parmitano trying to be the first man to drown in space.
Whether the UK press' appetite had been whetted by the announcement that Tim Peake was up soon, or whether it was just the right time, I'm not sure. But there seems to have been more mainstream media coverage of space of late - the Mars rovers, a little of SpaceX, Hadfield and Peake. Philae doing it's comety bouncy thing.
I suspect that some of it is good communications, but also the sense that different things are happening. Perhaps even interesting things. And that gets the news people interested And if you can get publicity, you're that much closer to getting funding. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
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Monday 20th June 2016 23:25 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: Ethnocentric reporting
The Peake of his career has been reached and it was a Major Peake. At least now he can get away from all the Ground Control to Major Tim cracks.
And why does the broadcast media always manage to say his name like it's all one word Timpeake?
Anyway, coat, got, gone.
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