space cadets

[Yer_Maw]

possibly the worst practical joke in history. Apparently the cunning rouse cost £5million to stage. Would it not have been better to actually send someone into space? Therefore, they could do it, whats the joke? I really hope that when cunt faced johnny vaughn reveals the hilarious truth someone states the obvious, and says 'wanker.'

utter rubbish.

[grobelaar]

I really like how they've wittled down the hundreds of applicants to just a dozen of the most gullible people on the planet... In another life, those 12 people are probably on some Club Reps programme - buckets of enthusiasm, absolutely no brains whatsoever...

I reckon they'll have been too thorough, like they should have left a couple of clues around and then seen how easy it is for the production crew and the three plants to get out of a sticky situation.

Like filing off the English words on the light switches, personally that wouldn't even work for me, I'd be wondering why any words had been freshly filed off...

Plus they only win the money if they don't rumble it, so the moment you show any intelligence, you are doubtless thrown off the program and out into the post reality show interview with Vaughn where you tell everyone you opinions on your fellow space cadets.

[Daddys Girl]

didn't like it really. maybe it'll get funnier over time?
or not.

[Yer_Maw]

@grob, if they are that daft, why not tell them they are going to mars? that might be funny.

[don___quixote]

fuck it - tell the cunt's they're dead and they've gone to hell... that'd be good.

[yenorom]

They should give them fake suicide pills to take incase they get captured by space monsters.

[Spandex]

I caught a bit of it yesterday... but I missed the start, which was the bit I wanted to see. i.e. How they managed to find people stupid enough.

[joe pinapples]

Mon the foolish Space Cadet Glaswegians - big hair dumb fuck and the callcentre bird! If yer dumb enuf to think that Channel 4 can send 9 people into space when it cost 20 million to send that one millionaire cunt, then you deserve a slagging ... My opinion is that its better than Big Brother but not as good as the one with Miriam the bird thas really a guy - so therefore absolute shite.

[Yer_Maw]

wait ive just realised something. they really are pure "space cadets"

hohohoho

[joe pinapples]

[grobelaar]

Nah, I think the tv show side of it is believable - it might 20million for one billionaire. But I reckon if you approached the Russian space agency for real and said you were a major television network and offered them a portion of the rights to any subsequent show/syndication of the format to other tv channels, they'd buy it...

What makes this bunch super fucking gullible is that they think that any fuckwit could be suitable for space travel - I mean look at the size of some of them - king bloaters in space...

[Loz]

I reckon malicious reality tv is the only kind worth it. Surely anyone who wants to be on reality tv deserves anything they get?

[Hand on the Plow]

I don't see the problem with it. I might even watch the second episode. How far do you reckon they will take it? actually as far as mocking up a launch?.. that would be pretty hard..

[Patrick]

Originally posted by Hand on the Plow
I don't see the problem with it. I might even watch the second episode. How far do you reckon they will take it? actually as far as mocking up a launch?.. that would be pretty hard..

I think they should actually have a launch. About 7 or 8 thousand feet up would be a classic time to tell them it's only a homemade rocket and not equipped for travelling in space at all.

[Loz]

apparently they plan to mock 5 days in space

(they've told the contestants it'll be in "near orbit" so that's why gravity will still be there)

[Patrick]

Sounds a bit like Capricorn 1, except without Capt. Charles Brubaker.

[grobelaar]

Watched it yesterday. This has got to be a wind-up. I mean a wind-up on the viewers. It's either that, or those 12 people are the stupidest people on Planet Earth.

Nah, I reckon it's just a big wind-up - they all know it's fake. Yesterday there was a couple of low shots and I swear you could see that the mission commander's moustache has no colour on the underside and the side shots, I think you can see something glossy like wig tape...

Just all looked totally phoney to me... Too many moments where the 'contestants' said ironically appropriate statements like 'this is just like a movie' and 'it's getting really real now' etc. Shame they're all fucking shit actors.

Like I said either that or they are just fucking stupid. Which also wouldn't surprise me. Maybe C4 could follow up with an in-depth look at Labour's education policy in action.

[Loz]

someone in one of the first episodes said "I bet this is a wind up by Zeppotron or someone" not sure they'd choose the drop that big a hint that they were in on it.

One of the actors is apparently quite well known, I've been told. The Charlie guy who's supposed to be a poet. He's a comedian on Radio 4, done a lot of work for Zeppotron in the past.

[joe pinapples]

This show sucks new heights of assdom for a reality tv show .. maybe if we're lucky this piece of shit will bring in the long building backlash against reality tv shows and the sad fucks who want to go on them .. probably not though:

[bracket]

I have only caught a little bit of the show but Booze reminded me that we have met this guy queing up to get into Public Life one Monday morning...



He was proper out of his box.

[love_tempo]

I read in the paper today that one version of the 'why gravity will still work' explanation was that they had installed artificial gravity generators in the craft. You'd have to be a bit fick and not just gullible to believe that.

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by [b]racket
I have only caught a little bit of the show but Booze reminded me that we have met this guy queing up to get into Public Life one Monday morning...



He was proper out of his box.

Isn't that Hazell in his big hair phase?

[Orang Utan]

Originally posted by love_tempo
I read in the paper today that one version of the 'why gravity will still work' explanation was that they had installed artificial gravity generators in the craft. You'd have to be a bit fick and not just gullible to believe that.

I keep seeing this but I don't agree - I know fuck all about science - I wouldn't know about artificial gravity. I don't regard myself as thick or gullible, just ignorant about science.

[Yer_Maw]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/...20051124.shtml

[decadnids]

have to agree with Orang Utan - as i know a lot of people who i don't consider to be thick but know nothing about science etc, and probably wouldn't realise that the creation of an artificial gravity isn't currently possible.

there is a lot of research going into this.

i do think that people who believe that C4 actually were planning on sending people to space are a little soft in the head.

[grobelaar]

yeah but you know we don't have artificial gravity don't you - you'd have heard about it by now - such a dramatic breakthrough would be headline news...

[decadnids]

Originally posted by grobelaar
yeah but you know we don't have artificial gravity don't you - you'd have heard about it by now - such a dramatic breakthrough would be headline news...

i would know about it... but i could name a hell of a lot of people who wouldn't know about it because they pay no attention to that sort of news.

[Orang Utan]

Originally posted by grobelaar
yeah but you know we don't have artificial gravity don't you - you'd have heard about it by now - such a dramatic breakthrough would be headline news...

Maybe, but I might not always think about it so enquiringly

[Orang Utan]

Originally posted by decadnids


i would know about it... but i could name a hell of a lot of people who wouldn't know about it because they pay no attention to that sort of news.

Sticks hand up!

[Hand on the Plow]

Originally posted by grobelaar
yeah but you know we don't have artificial gravity don't you - you'd have heard about it by now - such a dramatic breakthrough would be headline news...

If you're not in the slightest bit interested in science you wouldn't.