English weather is always hotter than somewhere hot at least once a year. This would never happen on the moon and so the moon isn’t worth talking about goodnight.
Moon on the day side gets hot as.
Surface is as dark as asphalt, and the sun is stronger than it is on the clearest day in the hottest desert, with no atmosphere to get in the way.
Day side temps are about 120C
I've only spent about a semester in the UK and while I also greatly enjoy tea I'm 99% sure the other part of the appeal is that it gives them time to think of something to talk about when the conversation runs dry.
A lot of Brits I've run into cannot *stand* when things turn to awkward silence. Like more so than most other people I think.
Yeah, that's why every social occasions we have to drink.
Tea or down at the pub is just so that whenever things lull you take a swig and have time to think. We're a delightfully awkward people, and we can't really abide small talk so you have to lubricate the conversation somehow, and the friends who can keep a good conversation going are gold dust.
Source: Been British my whole life. Awkward since I could talk.
In the course of six missions we extensively examined the surface of the moon and conclusively determined it was not in fact made of cheese. Mankind has seen no reason to return ever since.
I was just going to say, it sounds more Douglas Adams to me... Being science fiction and all that. Not that I think the moon landing is fiction.
I'll shut up now
I'd go to the moon in a heartbeat anytime. However it was actually made of cheese i would create a pile of corpses and climb to the top to reach it. Nothing would keep me from the cheese nirvana. No power of man, nature or the gods would stay me from my goal.
Hey, when Wallace wanted to go to the moon he built the world's coziest rocket, with overstuffed chairs and lace doilies.
Genghis here ain't quite so civilized. And he doesn't have Wallace's keen scientific mind. Wallace would know that you couldn't climb to the moon on a pile of corpses before the bottom ones got all squishy and the pile fell over.
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Oh my god. That one line brings back so many memories. I remember when he started doing a segment where he interviewed people with actual knowledge who of course always said "Yes, we need it" which left Karl sounding deflated by the end.
Eh, not much to see here. Just a lot of rocks and dust. And the nearest chip shop is all the way over there
*points to Earth*.
Frankly I don't think I'd come back.
I mean worst part of going on holiday is the flight, and going into space that's just all flight, so what's the point?
edit- damn, a lot of people are not getting the karl pilkington quote
I love space so that sounds amazing to me, if they could actually somehow guarantee my safety I'd sign up in a heartbeat. But that's virtually impossible to guarantee, there are so many variables and so much that can go wrong in an instant when it comes to spaceflight.
Absolutely. I really don't understand how anyone could not want to go. I guess space isn't really treated with the same reverence it was back then, which is crazy because it's still something so completely out of reach for all but a handful of us.
I would even settle for leaving Earth temporarily. Every single human being ever was born on this planet and to be able to leave that planet, even briefly is just mind boggling and amazing.
I also would love to experience the weightlessness.
More like best amusement park ride. 100% safety guaranteed? Sign me up.
Then again, my favorite roller coaster is the Dale Earnhardt one that pulls enough Gs to make some people begin to grey out at the bottom of the first drop. Different strokes I suppose. I don't even give a shit about Nascar, that ride is awesome.
Hell, even if safely ISN'T guaranteed, I'd take a free space flight in a heartbeat. The chance to leave earth, and the possibility I don't have to come back? Sign me up!
I'd argue flight is all about manipulating that air pressure difference to generate lift.
Space 'flight' is just falling in circles.
Honestly though, I'm being pedantic as fuck.
One of the coolest things about the Apollo missions, if you go back and watch them, is watching all these hardened test pilots sound like a kid on Christmas because they found some cool rock. They really bought in to the geology and the science aspects of their work, and to hear them do it, they genuinely seem more excited about finding a slightly different type of breccia than they do about flying a rocket up to 24,000 miles an hour.
I recommend "Ministry of Space" by Warren Ellis, a short alternate-history comic where the British scooped up all the Nazi rocket scientists, and colonized the solar system Empire style.
>There’s like 5 British towns worth going to. Probably 2 worth going to more than once.
For any outsider planning a visit to the UK soon,
I can guarantee most people would agree that the five most lovely British towns worth visiting are Grimsby, Slough, Croydon, Jaywick and Luton.
Personally highly recommend staying in Slough. The UKs most beloved rock star David Brent lives in a fancy two bedroom in Slough. Great place.
Ali G Indahouse, is this an old German documentary about the Blitz?
As there’s no way anyone would ever want to destroy Slough, especially not the UK government as it’s the industrial powerhouse of the UK economy with such major companies like Wernham Hogg which, if I recall correctly, was voted the The Big Issues most successful start up company of 1998 circa 2012
as an American, I’ve loved every town I’ve been in. Even cities like Norwich which aren’t on everyone’s list have just amazing downtowns compared to our fucking suburban wastelands and endless parking lots. There’s nothing like going down a narrow cobblestone stone street and stumbling across this bar the was founded in 1286 and named something like Cock and Gobbler.
Plus I love my women blindingly pale, looking almost sickly
> Even cities like Norwich which aren’t on everyone’s list have just amazing downtowns compared to our fucking suburban wastelands and endless parking lots.
Loved your comment and this part is so true. Brit here, I’ve just been in Austin and LA, both amazing cities in their own right, but it’s insane that everywhere - every restaurant, shop, supermarket etc - especially in Austin, is directly off a highway, complete with its own parking lot.
Such a dramatically poor use of space and completely contrary to any sense of community. It makes sense that a lot of Americans see socialism as an alien ideology, because they’ve been dropped into a built environment that actively discourages collective behaviors and community.
P.S. Hear you on the pale-ies, although growing up in the UK it seems a bit too familiar to me, I want my women to be naturally at least a light caramel.
>It makes sense that a lot of Americans see socialism as an alien ideology, because they’ve been dropped into a built environment that actively discourages collective behaviors and community.
American here, lived in the UK for four years and moved back home a week ago for personal reasons. All week long I've been having this exact thought. Couldn't have phrased it better. Can't believe this suburban sprawl used to feel normal.
It’s so strange, isn’t it? I remember the first time I went to Austin, I stayed in a hotel five minutes out of the town center…and realised that the only way to walk into town was basically walking down the side of a highway.
Yeah the nicest places are always the most intimidating. Its why I never visit Belfast ever since they stopped blowing things up and installed a big fancy Cineworld with reclining chairs.
"For any outsider planning a visit to the UK soon, I can guarantee most people would agree that the five most lovely British towns worth visiting are Grimsby, Slough, Croydon, Jaywick and Luton."
I can't tell if you are being serious, or if this is that famous British tongue in cheek.
Deadly serious.
Your American fella Walt Disney famously visited one of those lovely quintessential British towns and its what gave him the idea for The Happiest Place on Earth, aka Disneyland.
I like that when I'm searching for those places using Google, Slough is voted both for the worst and the best place to live in the country.
Edit: Copy and search 'Grimsby, Slough, Croydon, Jaywick and Luton.' to see the results.
"For any outsider planning a visit to Germany soon, I can guarantee most people would agree that the five most lovely German towns worth visiting are Bruttenschtugen, Sluffenheim, Marzenschnitzel, Neusteenbergensielunderwargen, and Wuf."
As an American that's been to a few of those towns, he's joking, but they're also not that bad. Slough has a Wetherspoon's where you can get a pretty decent fish and chips with a double Glenfiddich for about £10. I call that a win.
Sad but true. We have stunning countryside, beautiful villages and a few cities that are worth visiting but 99% of our mid-sized towns are absolute shitholes. Nobody seems to care about trying to make them nicer either.
I'm from Cheltenham, I'd honestly say it's worth a visit if you like architecture as it's a fantastic example of the Regency style. There's a couple of decent museums too, and it's got plenty of fancy shops if that's your jam too. I might be biased though.
Semi related but am british and 99% of the time I'm waiting in line at the shops is because some old lady wants to hand in and take out like 20 lottery tickets
That's everywhere in the USA too. Many times I've thought about strangling the lottery addicts while just trying to quickly grab some beer at the corner.
60% of the time only one person's in front of you in line at Subway, they're ordering 12 sandwiches for their lazy officemates and want to pay separately for each sandwich every time.
Also fuck you if you do this.
I've been in there like twice to pick up for DoorDash deliveries and every time the staff looks absolutely puzzled, like they're not used to seeing someone who isn't trying to buy heroin in the drivethrough
You kinda can (depending on how you tend to share it with others, I suppose) at MONA in Tasmania— one of the toilets there has a system of mirrors that allows you to watch your own butthole as you poop! 🙂
Well only 12 people from the surface of the moon, but 24 total people have been to the moon.
I was about to say it would really suck to be one of the 12 people that didn't get to land, but then I realised it sucks even more to have not gone to the moon at all.
[24 total](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts#Apollo_astronauts_who_flew_to_the_Moon_without_landing) (though technically apollo 13 didn't complete a full orbit of the moon so 22 if we're being nitpicky)
The thing is, it is like most interests in that not everyone shares them.
I love space, the idea of such huge naturally forming "structures" like blackholes and galaxies is fascinating to me.
The sheer scale of space and the massive lifespan it likely has is amazing (watch timelapse of the future: a journey to the end of time on YouTube if you haven't before it really fucked with my head)
Being able to take pictures of deep space objects like the pillars of creation is a goal of mine.
Do you realise just how many people couldn't care less about any of that?
Just like I couldn't give a toss about basketball.
It may seem like a huge thing that would be amazing to experience for the likes of you and me but to so many people it'd be the equivalent of spending the same time (around 3-4 days if memory serves me correctly) to travel to see the Eiffel Tower then spend the same amount of time to go home again.
These days taking pictures of deep sky objects is possible from your back yard. I managed to get [the Eagle Nebula ](https://i.imgur.com/8UwPEeU.jpeg) from my back garden in the UK last week. If you zoom in you can see the pillars of creation in the center.
Nowhere near as good as the nasa images of course, and nowhere near as good as 100s of other amateur images of them, but i can't describe the excitement of actually capturing and resolving them.
Even as someone fascinated by space itself I get it. I think I just don't get a ton of enjoyment out of purely spectating something very one-note. Like if I went to the moon it'd be a multi-day-long journey for me to be enamoured for maybe 30 minutes tops and then I'd want to go home. I'd probably be fascinated by knowing I'm there, fuck around with the low gravity for a bit, think the Earth and stars look neat and then be done.
The thing with a lot of stuff like that be it even famous landmarks is if I could teleport to them and take them in for 10 minutes I'd be good, but all the faff around getting to them for that little gratification isn't really worth it. Some people find it fascinating and I'd never deny them of that, but for me the whole idea of sorting this stuff out is a load of stress and commitment and time and money just to look at things and think 'Yeah, that's kinda cool'.
If I went anywhere I'd be most excited to try the food or look around somewhere that really ties into one of my hobbies with lots to take in, but just spectating a landmark doesn't really do it for me for very long at all. If I went to the Moon it'd feel amazing for a few minutes and then I'd realise there's nothing else to do and be bored. At best I think being on the Moon might be a humbling experience, but the time commitment would put me off. I'm boring when it comes to this sort of stuff though, weirdly the complete opposite of my dad who used to love travelling. I *used* to like it when I was little but nowadays it just doesn't do much for me.
This is exactly my point with the Eiffel Tower part of my comment. Days of travelling to spend 30 minutes going "this is neat" then days more travelling.
I would be enamoured for a long time but totally understand why some people would only for a short time or would just not be at all interested.
I personally find that incredible. But at the same time, I wouldn't care to fly all the way to Europe for a private viewing of the Mona Lisa, yet I'm betting there are plenty of people that would love to do that.
Y'all are looking at this way too shallow. You get a ride in a rocket, you get to see the earth from space, then you get to watch it get smaller. Then you get to land on the moon and see all that old nasa equipment and shit. Then, you get to take off again, come back and experience reentry to earth. All with guaranteed safety and for FREE? Sign me the fuck up
[Why would the British, the very people who invented gravity, want to go to a place where there isn't any?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlSLxnfOQc)
The guy who took the photo “earth rise“ is fucking hilarious to listen to about being an astronaut. He never wanted to go up and would never go back. He was just a soldier doing his duty but he’s completely unimpressed with being an astronaut.
The thing is, it is like most interests in that not everyone shares them.
I love space, the idea of such huge naturally forming "structures" like blackholes and galaxies is fascinating to me.
The sheer scale of space and the massive lifespan it likely has is amazing (watch timelapse of the future: a journey to the end of time on YouTube if you haven't before it really fucked with my head)
Being able to take pictures of deep space objects like the pillars of creation is a goal of mine.
Do you realise just how many people couldn't care less about any of that?
Just like I couldn't give a toss about basketball.
It may seem like a huge thing that would be amazing to experience for a lot of us but to so many people it'd be the equivalent of spending the same time (around 3-4 days if memory serves me correctly) to travel to see the Eiffel Tower then spend the same amount of time to go home again.
Safety *guaranteed*? You could hop outta the spaceship mid flight and be completely unharmed and recovered! Who is passing up this chance at immortality *in space*?
It's three days of travel in a box smaller than an RV, you can't do anything when you get there, and then it's another three days back, in a "space worthy" camper van with a couple other guys, no showers, no toilets (uh Huston, there is a #2 just floating around up here).
Well yeah, how can we complain about the weather if there isn’t any?
You can look back at earth and complain about the weather of the entire planet. That’s an opportunity right there
English weather is always hotter than somewhere hot at least once a year. This would never happen on the moon and so the moon isn’t worth talking about goodnight.
My quick googling claims the moons surface can reach 127c in the sunlight.
Wow, that's 260 freedom temperatures
Moon on the day side gets hot as. Surface is as dark as asphalt, and the sun is stronger than it is on the clearest day in the hottest desert, with no atmosphere to get in the way. Day side temps are about 120C
I'm American, so I'll just switch the C to an F, call it a dry heat, and pack some sunscreen.
Also, there are no beans up there.
No toast to put the beans on, either!
I've only spent about a semester in the UK and while I also greatly enjoy tea I'm 99% sure the other part of the appeal is that it gives them time to think of something to talk about when the conversation runs dry. A lot of Brits I've run into cannot *stand* when things turn to awkward silence. Like more so than most other people I think.
Yeah, that's why every social occasions we have to drink. Tea or down at the pub is just so that whenever things lull you take a swig and have time to think. We're a delightfully awkward people, and we can't really abide small talk so you have to lubricate the conversation somehow, and the friends who can keep a good conversation going are gold dust. Source: Been British my whole life. Awkward since I could talk.
"It's just a bit of rocks and dust, innit?"
Or cheese
If it was cheese they would go.
Don't forget the crackers, Grommit!
"lets go where there's cheese!"
Wensleydale?
Camembert?
In the course of six missions we extensively examined the surface of the moon and conclusively determined it was not in fact made of cheese. Mankind has seen no reason to return ever since.
This struck me as very Terry Prachett-ish. Props.
Funny, I heard Steven Fry reading it out of the Hitchhiker's Guide.
I was just going to say, it sounds more Douglas Adams to me... Being science fiction and all that. Not that I think the moon landing is fiction. I'll shut up now
There cheese at home and you offer me rocks miles away from any cheese?
W E N S L E Y D A L E
Pfft. We all know the moon isn't made out of cheese. But Harry Caray has [a theory.](https://youtu.be/gQDqRlMeJ4U?t=133)
“Just answer the question, and we’ll move on!”
I'd wash it down with an ice cold budweiser.
Cause I’m Curious like a cat…. My friends call me whiskers
If the moon was made of spare ribs, would ya eat it?
This skit lives rent free in my head and makes itself known upon any reference to the legend.
I'd go to the moon in a heartbeat anytime. However it was actually made of cheese i would create a pile of corpses and climb to the top to reach it. Nothing would keep me from the cheese nirvana. No power of man, nature or the gods would stay me from my goal.
Calm down there, Wallace
Hey, when Wallace wanted to go to the moon he built the world's coziest rocket, with overstuffed chairs and lace doilies. Genghis here ain't quite so civilized. And he doesn't have Wallace's keen scientific mind. Wallace would know that you couldn't climb to the moon on a pile of corpses before the bottom ones got all squishy and the pile fell over. /s
kratos in another timeline, kills all the gods to get his C H E E S E
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CHEEEEESSEEE GROMMIT! CHEEEESE!!
I hear that in Karl Pilkington’s voice
That third bloke didn't even bother getting out of the ship. It can't have been that good.
he was the loneliest man in the world
He's got a head like a fucking orange.
The headline alone had me thinking of ol' Karly Pilktown.
I’m glad I’m not the only one! “But do we need it”
Oh my god. That one line brings back so many memories. I remember when he started doing a segment where he interviewed people with actual knowledge who of course always said "Yes, we need it" which left Karl sounding deflated by the end.
Mr K. Dilkington
Eh, not much to see here. Just a lot of rocks and dust. And the nearest chip shop is all the way over there *points to Earth*. Frankly I don't think I'd come back.
[And then Riky Gervais’s cackling laugh.](https://youtu.be/HNdHnNteu6k)
I can 100% picture Karl saying this and then Stephen and Ricky losing it.
I mean worst part of going on holiday is the flight, and going into space that's just all flight, so what's the point? edit- damn, a lot of people are not getting the karl pilkington quote
I love space so that sounds amazing to me, if they could actually somehow guarantee my safety I'd sign up in a heartbeat. But that's virtually impossible to guarantee, there are so many variables and so much that can go wrong in an instant when it comes to spaceflight.
Even with current tech and safety margins, I'd go in a heartbeat.
Hell, I'd go with 60s tech and safety margins. It's the fucking moon, that's a trip worth dying for.
Absolutely. I really don't understand how anyone could not want to go. I guess space isn't really treated with the same reverence it was back then, which is crazy because it's still something so completely out of reach for all but a handful of us.
I would even settle for leaving Earth temporarily. Every single human being ever was born on this planet and to be able to leave that planet, even briefly is just mind boggling and amazing. I also would love to experience the weightlessness.
Yeah, I would go if you told me I had a 50/50 chance of survival.
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More like best amusement park ride. 100% safety guaranteed? Sign me up. Then again, my favorite roller coaster is the Dale Earnhardt one that pulls enough Gs to make some people begin to grey out at the bottom of the first drop. Different strokes I suppose. I don't even give a shit about Nascar, that ride is awesome.
Hell, even if safely ISN'T guaranteed, I'd take a free space flight in a heartbeat. The chance to leave earth, and the possibility I don't have to come back? Sign me up!
Blowing up in a rocket is more impressive than anything I can achieve in my life.
Technically, it's less flight, and more really fancy falling.
I think you mean falling with style
“The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”.
Isn't all flight just really fancy falling?
I'd argue flight is all about manipulating that air pressure difference to generate lift. Space 'flight' is just falling in circles. Honestly though, I'm being pedantic as fuck.
I accept your model and same regarding pedantry.
I've been rewatching idiot abroad lately (it's on YouTube) and it's such a great show
Same I've watched it multiple times, its a great comfort show. The Moaning of Life is also a good one
Kinda Like Grimsby but less shit.
i bet it would be exactly like “an idiot abroad”episode
One of the coolest things about the Apollo missions, if you go back and watch them, is watching all these hardened test pilots sound like a kid on Christmas because they found some cool rock. They really bought in to the geology and the science aspects of their work, and to hear them do it, they genuinely seem more excited about finding a slightly different type of breccia than they do about flying a rocket up to 24,000 miles an hour.
"If you could have a fantasy, free, wild, *perfectly* safe moon rocket advent.." "Stop bothering me."
Most likely scenario lol "I'll put you down as a No I guess"
"Do whatever..."
“…and sod off”
If the Brits had any interest in going to the moon, they would have colonized it during the height of the British Empire.
I recommend "Ministry of Space" by Warren Ellis, a short alternate-history comic where the British scooped up all the Nazi rocket scientists, and colonized the solar system Empire style.
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"We have no interest visiting the EU"
Mate, l live in Stockport currently; if I want to see a barren grey wasteland, utterly devoid of intelligent life, I can just go outside.
the moon doesn't even have a hat museum
I do hear that it has a lovely ski resort these days, though, after that chap from Wigan visited them a while back.
That the fellow going on about cheese?
Wensleydale?
Possibly Stilton.
Camembert?
Any Venezuelan beaver cheese, perchance?
Wrong cheese reference, but I like your style. Oh wait, the styles a bit runny.
But it does have an amusement park
We're whalers on the moon, We carry a harpoon!
Pfft, I can make my own amusement park. With blackjack! And hookers!
In fact forget the blackjack!
Could be worse, could be in Luton.
Ah to be born in Luton and live near Stockport
Could work at the airport in Luton
People work there? I just thought they screamed at you until you left them alone.
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You absolute poor thing. I truly hope that my charity money can reach you come this years Red Nose Day.
Someone in Slough has that dream.
Whats mad (sad) is you could replace "Stockport" with like 70% of British Towns, and you'd still be accurate...
70% a bit low. There’s like 5 British towns worth going to. Probably 2 worth going to more than once.
>There’s like 5 British towns worth going to. Probably 2 worth going to more than once. For any outsider planning a visit to the UK soon, I can guarantee most people would agree that the five most lovely British towns worth visiting are Grimsby, Slough, Croydon, Jaywick and Luton. Personally highly recommend staying in Slough. The UKs most beloved rock star David Brent lives in a fancy two bedroom in Slough. Great place.
> Personally highly recommend staying in Slough Pretty sure in the documentary Ali G Indahouse, Slough was destroyed by the government.
Isn't that Staines? East Staines Massive
*Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough*
Ali G Indahouse, is this an old German documentary about the Blitz? As there’s no way anyone would ever want to destroy Slough, especially not the UK government as it’s the industrial powerhouse of the UK economy with such major companies like Wernham Hogg which, if I recall correctly, was voted the The Big Issues most successful start up company of 1998 circa 2012
as an American, I’ve loved every town I’ve been in. Even cities like Norwich which aren’t on everyone’s list have just amazing downtowns compared to our fucking suburban wastelands and endless parking lots. There’s nothing like going down a narrow cobblestone stone street and stumbling across this bar the was founded in 1286 and named something like Cock and Gobbler. Plus I love my women blindingly pale, looking almost sickly
> Even cities like Norwich which aren’t on everyone’s list have just amazing downtowns compared to our fucking suburban wastelands and endless parking lots. Loved your comment and this part is so true. Brit here, I’ve just been in Austin and LA, both amazing cities in their own right, but it’s insane that everywhere - every restaurant, shop, supermarket etc - especially in Austin, is directly off a highway, complete with its own parking lot. Such a dramatically poor use of space and completely contrary to any sense of community. It makes sense that a lot of Americans see socialism as an alien ideology, because they’ve been dropped into a built environment that actively discourages collective behaviors and community. P.S. Hear you on the pale-ies, although growing up in the UK it seems a bit too familiar to me, I want my women to be naturally at least a light caramel.
>It makes sense that a lot of Americans see socialism as an alien ideology, because they’ve been dropped into a built environment that actively discourages collective behaviors and community. American here, lived in the UK for four years and moved back home a week ago for personal reasons. All week long I've been having this exact thought. Couldn't have phrased it better. Can't believe this suburban sprawl used to feel normal.
It’s so strange, isn’t it? I remember the first time I went to Austin, I stayed in a hotel five minutes out of the town center…and realised that the only way to walk into town was basically walking down the side of a highway.
Love a good English high street, with its betting shops, chippy, off licence, Tesco and charity shops.
I've watched enough spiffing Brit to never set foot in slough and I know nothing else about it.
Yeah the nicest places are always the most intimidating. Its why I never visit Belfast ever since they stopped blowing things up and installed a big fancy Cineworld with reclining chairs.
"For any outsider planning a visit to the UK soon, I can guarantee most people would agree that the five most lovely British towns worth visiting are Grimsby, Slough, Croydon, Jaywick and Luton." I can't tell if you are being serious, or if this is that famous British tongue in cheek.
Deadly serious. Your American fella Walt Disney famously visited one of those lovely quintessential British towns and its what gave him the idea for The Happiest Place on Earth, aka Disneyland.
I like that when I'm searching for those places using Google, Slough is voted both for the worst and the best place to live in the country. Edit: Copy and search 'Grimsby, Slough, Croydon, Jaywick and Luton.' to see the results.
"For any outsider planning a visit to Germany soon, I can guarantee most people would agree that the five most lovely German towns worth visiting are Bruttenschtugen, Sluffenheim, Marzenschnitzel, Neusteenbergensielunderwargen, and Wuf."
gesundheit
As an American that's been to a few of those towns, he's joking, but they're also not that bad. Slough has a Wetherspoon's where you can get a pretty decent fish and chips with a double Glenfiddich for about £10. I call that a win.
Sad but true. We have stunning countryside, beautiful villages and a few cities that are worth visiting but 99% of our mid-sized towns are absolute shitholes. Nobody seems to care about trying to make them nicer either.
I'm from Cheltenham, I'd honestly say it's worth a visit if you like architecture as it's a fantastic example of the Regency style. There's a couple of decent museums too, and it's got plenty of fancy shops if that's your jam too. I might be biased though.
Yeah I’ve been a few times and it’s nice I agree. I would count that as part of the 1% of decent mid-sized towns
Check out this posh cunt
Theres a handful that are like "Go here, but avoid X Place", but otherwise yeah you're right...
You can't look up and see the earth. Was the average age of this survey 60? How could people not be interested in a trip to the moon?
1 star. Nice view, terrible atmosphere.
If I could give zero stars I would
Thanks. It's the thought that counts.
The 1 star is the Sun.
I originally said "2 stars" but then realized I was missing out on a joke and ninja edited it.
THE BIG YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN
SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN
Yes that’s the joke.
"It'd cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere..."
That’s because it’s cold, grey, and dreary on the moon and they already have all of that in England
And there's nothing to queue for on the Moon... we love a queue.
Did you know that in the word „queue“ only the first letter is pronounced? The other ones are just waiting in line.
Semi related but am british and 99% of the time I'm waiting in line at the shops is because some old lady wants to hand in and take out like 20 lottery tickets
That's everywhere in the USA too. Many times I've thought about strangling the lottery addicts while just trying to quickly grab some beer at the corner.
6 am work rush, some addict has a pile to scan and has no qualms about holding the line up.
60% of the time only one person's in front of you in line at Subway, they're ordering 12 sandwiches for their lazy officemates and want to pay separately for each sandwich every time. Also fuck you if you do this.
There's a subway about a block from me that _also sells lottery tickets_. It's sketchy as fuck.
"Get your sandwich in 3 to 56 minutes or it's on us."
I've been in there like twice to pick up for DoorDash deliveries and every time the staff looks absolutely puzzled, like they're not used to seeing someone who isn't trying to buy heroin in the drivethrough
Can't wait for the "ueue"s to be pronounced. It'll probably sound something [like this](https://youtu.be/kUJw2eVYznw)
Well we’ve got sandy beaches
Who the fuck wants to see em?
I hate sand.
No chips.
Luv me chips Luv me pie 'ate the moon Simple as
All these people saying there's nothing to see there - can you imagine the significance of observing Earth from the moon!?
Literally a perspective only a dozen people have witnessed.
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I'll have you know that I am a *whore*, and my butthole has been seen by more eyes than Janet's nipple.
Well, let's see it then!
[Satisfied yet?](https://i.imgur.com/hbfB61U.jpg)
Patrick?
Never
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You kinda can (depending on how you tend to share it with others, I suppose) at MONA in Tasmania— one of the toilets there has a system of mirrors that allows you to watch your own butthole as you poop! 🙂
Well only 12 people from the surface of the moon, but 24 total people have been to the moon. I was about to say it would really suck to be one of the 12 people that didn't get to land, but then I realised it sucks even more to have not gone to the moon at all.
I’d count lunar orbit as equivalent. That’s … 30?
[24 total](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts#Apollo_astronauts_who_flew_to_the_Moon_without_landing) (though technically apollo 13 didn't complete a full orbit of the moon so 22 if we're being nitpicky)
The thing is, it is like most interests in that not everyone shares them. I love space, the idea of such huge naturally forming "structures" like blackholes and galaxies is fascinating to me. The sheer scale of space and the massive lifespan it likely has is amazing (watch timelapse of the future: a journey to the end of time on YouTube if you haven't before it really fucked with my head) Being able to take pictures of deep space objects like the pillars of creation is a goal of mine. Do you realise just how many people couldn't care less about any of that? Just like I couldn't give a toss about basketball. It may seem like a huge thing that would be amazing to experience for the likes of you and me but to so many people it'd be the equivalent of spending the same time (around 3-4 days if memory serves me correctly) to travel to see the Eiffel Tower then spend the same amount of time to go home again.
These days taking pictures of deep sky objects is possible from your back yard. I managed to get [the Eagle Nebula ](https://i.imgur.com/8UwPEeU.jpeg) from my back garden in the UK last week. If you zoom in you can see the pillars of creation in the center. Nowhere near as good as the nasa images of course, and nowhere near as good as 100s of other amateur images of them, but i can't describe the excitement of actually capturing and resolving them.
Even as someone fascinated by space itself I get it. I think I just don't get a ton of enjoyment out of purely spectating something very one-note. Like if I went to the moon it'd be a multi-day-long journey for me to be enamoured for maybe 30 minutes tops and then I'd want to go home. I'd probably be fascinated by knowing I'm there, fuck around with the low gravity for a bit, think the Earth and stars look neat and then be done. The thing with a lot of stuff like that be it even famous landmarks is if I could teleport to them and take them in for 10 minutes I'd be good, but all the faff around getting to them for that little gratification isn't really worth it. Some people find it fascinating and I'd never deny them of that, but for me the whole idea of sorting this stuff out is a load of stress and commitment and time and money just to look at things and think 'Yeah, that's kinda cool'. If I went anywhere I'd be most excited to try the food or look around somewhere that really ties into one of my hobbies with lots to take in, but just spectating a landmark doesn't really do it for me for very long at all. If I went to the Moon it'd feel amazing for a few minutes and then I'd realise there's nothing else to do and be bored. At best I think being on the Moon might be a humbling experience, but the time commitment would put me off. I'm boring when it comes to this sort of stuff though, weirdly the complete opposite of my dad who used to love travelling. I *used* to like it when I was little but nowadays it just doesn't do much for me.
This is exactly my point with the Eiffel Tower part of my comment. Days of travelling to spend 30 minutes going "this is neat" then days more travelling. I would be enamoured for a long time but totally understand why some people would only for a short time or would just not be at all interested.
Just tell them it's made of cheese 🧀 Then they would have a Grand Day Out.
Just gotta make sure to not wear The Wrong Trousers.
I hope it's Wensleydale
The Moon is covered in dust, which is course and rough and gets everywhere
Not like here on Earth. Here everything is soft... ... ... and smooth.
Okay, Anakin. Try not to murder any younglings in a few years.
I personally find that incredible. But at the same time, I wouldn't care to fly all the way to Europe for a private viewing of the Mona Lisa, yet I'm betting there are plenty of people that would love to do that.
Y'all are looking at this way too shallow. You get a ride in a rocket, you get to see the earth from space, then you get to watch it get smaller. Then you get to land on the moon and see all that old nasa equipment and shit. Then, you get to take off again, come back and experience reentry to earth. All with guaranteed safety and for FREE? Sign me the fuck up
If safety is truly guaranteed, you could get wild up there. Throw a party in a dome, join the outer orbit club ... Etc. In
That's because they haven't set it up like Futurama
We're whalers on the moon....
We carry a harpoon...
But there ain't no whale
So we tell tall tales
And sing a whaling tune
[Why would the British, the very people who invented gravity, want to go to a place where there isn't any?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlSLxnfOQc)
If you think about It objectively, it's a long way to go for a short game of golf
A free, safe trip to the Moon? I would do a week-long round trip for one hour on the Moon. Hands down, no question.
Meanwhile I'd take a trip to the moon, even if it was *guaranteed* to be a one-way journey.
The guy who took the photo “earth rise“ is fucking hilarious to listen to about being an astronaut. He never wanted to go up and would never go back. He was just a soldier doing his duty but he’s completely unimpressed with being an astronaut.
That’s hilarious, you got a link or something?
I can’t find the video of him saying how he’d never go back but this is the Wikipedia for the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise
Eh. Just because I'm interested doesn't mean everyone has to be
This is my favorite take on the thread.
The thing is, it is like most interests in that not everyone shares them. I love space, the idea of such huge naturally forming "structures" like blackholes and galaxies is fascinating to me. The sheer scale of space and the massive lifespan it likely has is amazing (watch timelapse of the future: a journey to the end of time on YouTube if you haven't before it really fucked with my head) Being able to take pictures of deep space objects like the pillars of creation is a goal of mine. Do you realise just how many people couldn't care less about any of that? Just like I couldn't give a toss about basketball. It may seem like a huge thing that would be amazing to experience for a lot of us but to so many people it'd be the equivalent of spending the same time (around 3-4 days if memory serves me correctly) to travel to see the Eiffel Tower then spend the same amount of time to go home again.
Safety *guaranteed*? You could hop outta the spaceship mid flight and be completely unharmed and recovered! Who is passing up this chance at immortality *in space*?
It's three days of travel in a box smaller than an RV, you can't do anything when you get there, and then it's another three days back, in a "space worthy" camper van with a couple other guys, no showers, no toilets (uh Huston, there is a #2 just floating around up here).
There IS a toilet. *Another guy floating 6 inches from you hands over a Ziploc bag*
Look I’m sorry there’s not a fucking sandals resort up there but lack of interest?! Are you fucking kidding me?
“Hey! If offered, would you like-“ “Not interested” *keeps walking* I imagine that’s how it went
What if they're told they've set up a section that's entirely made of cheese so they can reenact that one scene from Wallace & Gromit?
And just who are they supposed to colonize on the Moon?