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23 May 2016, 5:48 pm

Do astronauts watch satellite TV in space?



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23 May 2016, 6:10 pm

Isn't the whole galaxy their TV? :)



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23 May 2016, 7:00 pm

They ain't gonna watch Sky tv are they, it's a bit derelict for them to downsize to watching that limited crud.

I did come across an alternative speech the other night that was prepared in the event that Buzz and Neil couldn't return to earth, was a really beautiful speech actually and would've been a very appropriate epitaph for the pair if they had to starve up there on the forlorn rock.



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24 May 2016, 7:57 am

DancingCorpse wrote:
They ain't gonna watch Sky tv are they, it's a bit derelict for them to downsize to watching that limited crud.

I did come across an alternative speech the other night that was prepared in the event that Buzz and Neil couldn't return to earth, was a really beautiful speech actually and would've been a very appropriate epitaph for the pair if they had to starve up there on the forlorn rock.


Years ago I ran across a big book in a book store devoted to speeches like that: speeches they had written "in case" that were never delivered. Things like a speech General Eisenhower would have given if the D-Day landing had failed, and other stuff like that down through history. That moon landing speech is probably in it.



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24 May 2016, 8:04 am

But astronauts probably don't watch cable.

It's kinda hard to hook up a phone line cable to a space ship moving 18 thousand mph.



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24 May 2016, 6:07 pm

I can almost hear the astronauts' mothers telling them, "We didn't travel all this way from Earth just to stay inside and watch the idiot box!" :lol: