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 ?
PJM1974
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No brainer here, space station.

Submarines smell and there’s no view, unless you’re allowed near a periscope. There’s no capacity to talk to your family on land, either.

A space station on the other hand has a peerless view, you get to float around a lot and you can talk to your mates on Earth.

Plus, only around 600 people have been in space compared to many thousands in subs.

Posted 9 years ago

rickmeister
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Submarine,

Its nearer to Lidl and Aldi for those bargain bike offers.

Posted 9 years ago

thegreatape
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I don’t think spacemen do poos, because there is no gravity so the turds never get to the rectum so you would just sit there and fart a bit.

Posted 9 years ago

Junkyard
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Space – not even close to a dilemma that one

Posted 9 years ago

mcmoonter
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Will Jane Fonda be in the space station too?

Probably NSFW

Posted 9 years ago

theflatboy
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GrahamS – Member
Space station. Much better view.

I don’t think she’s there all the time…

Posted 9 years ago

Northwind
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Space station, and I can’t even believe you need to ask the question tbh. Submarines are boring.

Posted 9 years ago

cbmotorsport
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Banter today at work…

That’s your work banter? You must clock watch.

Posted 9 years ago

ChrisL
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My childhood was 90% Star Wars and space Lego. Even if I suffered from the worst space adaption syndrome ever I’d still want to be on the space station.

Posted 9 years ago

CountZero
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That’s not even a sensible question! ISS in a heartbeat, I mean has the OP not seen all the photos that Cmdr Chris Hadfield took while he was up there? Just the most awesome place to be. I’m too claustrophobic to be able to go in a sub for extended periods of time; I was lucky enough to go on board a Class 42 destroyer at sea, and going below deck on that was bad enough, going down into the missile hanger was challenging in more ways than one; the thought of having to abandon ship in an emergency while down there was really scary, so many confined spaces.

Posted 9 years ago

gwaelod
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Posted 9 years ago

MrSalmon
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Come on, space station for sure!

The view, getting up there on a rocket and, you know, being in space should settle it straight off, before you start talking about submarines which I also suspect could be

just like being locked in a basement.

Posted 9 years ago

Whathaveisaidnow
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if the covert operation was to find another atlantis type world, that was solely populated by vivacious, beautiful, naked women who enjoy nothing more than washing up and feeding strange male visitors sea grapes,…i might well choose that?

Posted 9 years ago

houndlegs
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If wanmunkylung has picked one, put me down for the other one 😀

Posted 9 years ago

mikey-simmo
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seriously, page 2 and no jokes about seamen? *shakes head*

Posted 9 years ago

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

I dont think they do anymore, we had anaerobic digesters on surface ships.

Posted 9 years ago

joat
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Name me a famous submariner.

Posted 9 years ago

phil40
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Captain Nemo

Posted 9 years ago

joat
Full Member

Exactly!

Posted 9 years ago

Whathaveisaidnow
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Jacques Cousteau

Posted 9 years ago

Northwind
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joat – Member

Name me a famous submariner.

Captain-Lieutenant Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock Der Alte

Posted 9 years ago

gwaelod
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Steven Bowen was an astronaut who used to be a submariner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bowen_(astronaut)

Posted 9 years ago

jambalaya
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How many kids dream of being a submariner ? Spaceship of course, the alternatives seem like asking if you’d prefer a nice cold beer on a hot day or a poke in the eye with a sharp stick !

Posted 9 years ago

thestabiliser
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Captain barnacles

Posted 9 years ago

edhornby
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consider that to get to space you need to learn russian as part of the pre-flight training. then consider the qualification requirements and the rigorous psychological assessment before that. if you’re a geek you’re gonna love it up there 🙂

Posted 9 years ago

mrsfry
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Why would anyone choose ISS! It doesn’t have a proper toilet. If you want to reverse into a hole to do a number two I am sure there are cards in phone boxes that will let you do that for a low cost and lower risk of death, plus you don’t have to drink your number ones ( unless you want to). If your OH knew you had been sloshing other peoples pee in your mouth for six months, see how quickly you end up sleeping in the shed.

Bunch of oddballs.

Posted 9 years ago

rickmeister
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Name me a famous submariner.

Das Boot

Think he was Dutch …

Posted 9 years ago

BigDummy
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Definitely the space station.

Swap out the submarine for 6 months on the Belafonte with Steve Zissou and my answer might change.

🙂

Posted 9 years ago

kingkongsfinger
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Would love to spend six months in Apollo Creed.

Posted 9 years ago

hammyuk
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Anyone else wondered why the hottie in the window is laying on a dismembered arm?

Posted 9 years ago

neilthewheel
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Let’s level the playing field a bit:
6 months in a sub with Kylie, or…
6 months in the space station with Ann Widdecombe?

Posted 9 years ago

santacruzsi
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Space. More to see, and would be interesting chasing your food around like a fish!

Posted 9 years ago

GrahamS
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I love that some people would pass up the opportunity to go to space because they worry that the toilet might be a bit uncomfortable.

That’s the pioneer spirit right there 😀

Posted 9 years ago

jambalaya
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6 months in a sub with Kylie, or…
6 months in the space station with Ann Widdecombe?

Excellent 🙂

Posted 9 years ago

Northwind
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neil the wheel – Member

Let’s level the playing field a bit:
6 months in a sub with Kylie, or…
6 months in the space station with Ann Widdecombe?

Still the space station. 6 months of failing to get off with Kylie would be worse than 6 months of not wanting to get off with Ann Widdecombe.

Posted 9 years ago

sharkbait
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6 months in the space station with Ann Widdecombe?

Would there be lots of alcohol?

Posted 9 years ago

GrahamS
Full Member

Do you think Ann would need it sharkbait? I’m sure you’re not that bad.

Posted 9 years ago

sharkbait
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😯
😐
😥

Posted 9 years ago

MTB-Idle
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I love that some people would pass up the opportunity to go to space because they worry that the toilet might be a bit uncomfortable.

That’s the pioneer spirit right there

LOL, well they do say that (one of the many) differences between Brits and Yanks is that they have a get up and go spirit because they errr.. got up and went whereas we were the ones that decided to stay behind.

Presumably that was all toilet based.

Oh and I’m a bit claustrophobic so neither really but if I had to then space is my choice.

Posted 9 years ago

freeagent
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Space Station without a doubt.
We build stuff for Navy Ships and Submarines at work – I’ve been on an Astute class Sub (whilst it was in-build) and spent a lot of time on the T45 class Destroyers over the last 8 years.
They are cool + interesting machines, but Space would be so very much cooler.

Posted 9 years ago