Hi there bloggies, welcome to a new and fun little feature – 100 ways to die in space. Taking inspiration from a million ways to die in the west I’ll be taking a somewhat tongue in cheek at the many and various ways that space is somewhat unkind to the average human being and it pretty effective at killing them very quickly. Step aboard and see what happens, just don’t come on wearing a red top!
Method 1 – Moving too Slowly.
The thing is with space is you have to get there, to do this you need some kind of spacecraft and you have to be moving fast enough in order to escape the gravitational pull off the planet while also moving the mass of the spacecraft and everything on board.
Many reading this might argue that this should not be included in one of the many ways to die in space as the poor sod hasn’t got there yet but in order to get into space this has to happen so ironically – it flies.
Because of the intricacies around this science it doesn’t take much for someone to slip up – improper weigh in, sneaked on a gorilla costume or one too many pork pies before lift off it all amounts to the same thing. If you’re not moving fast enough you ain’t going to get there and this generally doesn’t turn into a happy ending.
It doesn’t take much to imagine the terror as the fuel runs out on the space vehicle, looking out desperately trying to work out what to do – and all becasue you packed that gorilla suit as a jape to scare the willies out of someone else on the station for lols.
The general procedure in this case is to jump out or you’ll find yourself scattered over a fairly wide area so the thing to do here is simple. Make sure there’s enough fuel on board, keep off the pork pies and don’t pack the extra gorilla suit. It makes sense and avoid costly crashes. People tend to get upset when rockets crash as they cost a few bob.
In this series of posts I’m going to look at the human perspective and ask questions like ‘What does it mean to be human?’ or ‘How can I be a better Human?’ with a little sprinkling of ‘How can I be more comfortable as a human?’In this mad world we’ve been enduring especially over theβ¦
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In this series of posts I’m going to look at the human perspective and ask questions like ‘What does it mean to be human?’ or ‘How can I be a better Human?’ with a little sprinkling of ‘How can I be more comfortable as a human?’In this mad world we’ve been enduring especially over theβ¦
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17 thoughts on “100 Ways to Die in Space – # 1 Going too Slowly”
Itβs nice to be pulled to the Earth tho… :)) Iβm planning to send ppl to Titan in the near future… what do you think? π
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Yeah that’s a good plan, they’ll need to wrap up warm though I hear it’s pretty brisk out there. Plus the air smells of farts π
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Lol π
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When I was a kid, I thought by now we’d actually BE in space. Imagine my disappointment that this post isn’t part of an actual how-to manual!
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I’m hoping that I’m ahead of the curve and it will be lol
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Soonβwe need to get off this planet lol!
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Yes I agree there… It’s too crazy lol
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Yes, my first instinct would be to pack a gorilla suit to scare someone for lols…..this is hilarious π
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When in doubt, start at the beginning. The very beginning. No. Before that. π I canβt wait to read the other 99!
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Well quite, you need to start somewhere and in this case with liftoff lol.
I hope you like them π
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lolz! science mixed with humour – epic
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Good to hear you like it! π
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too funny, looking forward to the next
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Ha fantastic! Thank you for coming by π
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