6 months on space station or submarine, which would you choose ?

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6 months on space station or submarine, which would you choose ?
unfitgeezer
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Banter today at work

6months on submarine would be on a covert operation and wouldn’t be surfacing.
Or
6 months on space station

What you would you choose and why ?

I’m still undecided

Posted 8 years ago

Pigface
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Space station, you have a window to look out of and floating about, Floating about would be so cool

Posted 8 years ago

thestabiliser
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space station, it’s, you know, IN SPACE!!!

Posted 8 years ago

FGF 701 The Hydrate Or Die Edition

Pawsy_Bear
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submarine

Posted 8 years ago

mikey3
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Worst question ever 🙂

Posted 8 years ago

the-muffin-man
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Space station, you have a window to look out of

^ This!

Posted 8 years ago

freeagent
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And this submarine has 6 months worth of food?
I’m pretty sure the UK Navy subs can only carry 10-12 weeks worth at a push?

Posted 8 years ago

ScottChegg
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Peasy. Space.

Better view and you have no gravity; which I bet never gets boring.

Posted 8 years ago

wanmankylung
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Space station.

Posted 8 years ago

chewkw
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Submarine death means you drown or starve off oxygen … I think the latter is better death.

Space station death probably means your body may explode? Yes? (do they explode due to expanding pressure?)

I prefer space station death if that means my body would explode suddenly rather than drowning …

Posted 8 years ago

ninfan
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space station – you can look out the window for starters – plus if you get a leak, then its trying to get out at 14psi, rather than trying to get in at 700psi – so with the space station you have a realistic chance of escape, rather than the whole thing collapsing around you like a tin can.

Posted 8 years ago

ddmonkey
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Space station, that would be special, a submarine could be just like being locked in a basement.

Posted 8 years ago

cheekymonkey888
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space station .. You can always jump in the sea and feel wet but not fly around and look at the world from space.

Posted 8 years ago

muppetWrangler
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Space Station, with barely a second thought.

– If you make it onto the space station you are likely to be contributing to some degree to the future of mankind.
– You get to experience weightlessness (positives and negatives in this, but six months should be ok)
– You get to see the earth from a privileged perspective, most that have experienced it say that it changes their outlook on our world.
– If you never did another thing for the rest of your life you’ll have been to low earth orbit, which is pretty good going for our generation.

Why would anyone pick submarine?

Posted 8 years ago

GrahamS
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Space station. Much better view.

Source: NASA

To be honest I don’t even understand why that’s a question. Why would anyone prefer a submarine??

Posted 8 years ago

legend
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chewkw – Member

Submarine death means you drown or starve off oxygen

or get crushed in a heartbeat.

Anyway, space coz windows and floating and eating weird ice-cream

Posted 8 years ago

Xylene
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Can I sit on the toilet to have a morning poo on the space station?

Posted 8 years ago

mogrim
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Submarine, if it’s this one:

If we’re bound by reality and submarines or space stations that actually exist, then the ISS.

Posted 8 years ago

GrahamS
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Space station death probably means your body may explode? Yes?

Nope. Your body isn’t that highly pressurised.

If it was then people would go pop at the top of Everest or when skydiving.

Posted 8 years ago

GrahamS
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Can I sit on the toilet to have a morning poo on the space station?

You can but it’s right next to that window (Cupola) so you may have company.

Posted 8 years ago

GrahamS
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If you haven’t seen it before, watch this fascinating tour of the (mock up) of the ISS. Very cool.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY1jYYhpGJM[/video]

Posted 8 years ago

ninfan
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You can but it’s right next to that window (Cupola) so you may have company.

Posted 8 years ago

mikey74
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Space station, without a second thought.

Space station death probably means your body may explode? Yes? (do they explode due to expanding pressure?)

No, you don’t explode: Our skin is actually very stretchy so you may swell up a lot, but you won’t explode (which may actually be worse).

Posted 8 years ago

rocketman
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Neither

I suffer quite badly from cabin fever

Posted 8 years ago

scaredypants
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Can I sit on the toilet to have a morning poo on the space station?

yeah, but if it’s going to be coming out at any great rate, either hold tight or buckle up !

Posted 8 years ago

GrahamS
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How they poo is apparently one of the questions most frequently asked questions of the ISS astronauts.

They answered it many times, the answer is not glamorous:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-65mBQ7s_Q[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryx_8JDy1Bw[/video]

Posted 8 years ago

senorj
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Space Station because I used to work with a fella off the subs , he was mental and had a smiley face tattooed on his old chap!

Posted 8 years ago

jekkyl
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Do you reckon you could get the internet in the space station?
It’s pretty close to lots of satellites after all.

Posted 8 years ago

IA
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Do you reckon you could get the internet in the space station

Yup, they have net access.

Oh, and ISS of course. Who wants to go on a sub?!?

Mind, a lot easier to get on a sub.

Posted 8 years ago

GrahamS
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Do you reckon you could get the internet in the space station?

They do, yes.

Posted 8 years ago

CheesybeanZ
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Space station obviously , its far more niche .

Posted 8 years ago

YoKaiser
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Space Station

Posted 8 years ago

bikebouy
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Like, yah, Space Man.

I want to see all the Aliens “n” stuff that never gets broadcast or shared..

Like, yah, Y’know all the Satelites that are crasing into each other, and the beams of light eminating from the Laylines, Man.
You’d be able to plot all the like “dead weird” places on Earth that only Governments know about, Man.

n

Stuff

n

Get to eat like freeze dried Chicken Curry, Man.

Posted 8 years ago

zippykona
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If I could get to space in a submarine and have proper toilets then I would say space.
There again if the submarine had a window and cruised the Red Sea…oh I don’t know.

Posted 8 years ago

gypsumfantastic
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How they poo is apparently one of the questions most frequently asked questions of the ISS astronauts.

Flipping that one round, how do you flush a submarine bog with 700psi of water trying to get in?

Posted 8 years ago

GrahamS
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how do you flush a submarine bog with 700psi of water trying to get in?

I would imagine in a very similar way to launching a torpedo. 😀

Posted 8 years ago

Xylene
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Not keen on that space station toilet.

Do you think the male space station people **** into that yellow hose in the video?

Posted 8 years ago

perchypanther
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how do you flush a submarine bog with 700psi of water trying to get in?

I would imagine in a very similar way to launching a torpedo.

I’ve always thought it’s more like a depth charge

Posted 8 years ago

FunkyDunc
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I would have thought the chances of getting to space have a higher risk of death compared with going to the bottom of the sea?

Posted 8 years ago

benp1
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Do you reckon you’d make the news for spending 6 months on a sub?

Posted 8 years ago