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Tim Peake

235 replies

Namechangingchameleon · 24/04/2016 13:42

I'm being totally U and preparing to be flamed but does anyone else find this guy really annoying?

6 months in Space (yawn) and today running the marathon on a treadmill. Bore off.

OP posts:
Narp · 24/04/2016 19:26

Pamela

Sorry. I am sure your husband is lovely

Unless he's Tim Peake, that annoying self-publicing waste of space (geddit?)

Pagwatch · 24/04/2016 19:26

That was brilliant slow posting Marsha Grin

Poor articulate Tigger was momentarily crushed..

Narp · 24/04/2016 19:27

Tigger

Thankyou. That is what I was trying to say in my silly post earlier

PamelaPatriciaYouCanCallMePam · 24/04/2016 19:28

Tiger, the inventions you cite aren't the result of space travel, they are the solutions to fix problems that would occur when travelling in space-so they could/would have been invented anyway, they just happen to have been conceptualised in order to take things to space. I think, anyway. The other examples are reasonable questions but would have cost a fraction of what space travel does. It's, pardon the pun, an astronomical figure for no tangible gain.

PamelaPatriciaYouCanCallMePam · 24/04/2016 19:28

other opinions are available

#lovernotfighter

TiggerPiggerPoohBumWee · 24/04/2016 19:28

I'm a bit drunk, it makes me verbose. And, er, passionate. But sure why the fuck not?

TiggerPiggerPoohBumWee · 24/04/2016 19:30

the inventions you cite aren't the result of space travel, they are the solutions to fix problems that would occur when travelling in space-so they could/would have been invented anyway, they just happen to have been conceptualised in order to take things to space

You can't know whether they would be invented or not. You certainly can't know when. I don't think they "just happened" to be anything. Thats kinda insulting to the people who spent years inventing and developing the stuff.....

Muskey · 24/04/2016 19:32

I don't see what's wrong with him. He's up in the space station inspiring people both young and old and ran a marathon

MarshaBrady · 24/04/2016 19:32
Grin
PamelaPatriciaYouCanCallMePam · 24/04/2016 19:33

Not insulting at all, they noted a problem and invented a solution! That's great and very clever. It's all very clever-space travel is undoubtedly amazing, I don't deny it, but I just don't think we gain much from it other than, well, this thread? But it's differences like that that make the world go round isn't it? Well, it's not, as Tim himself would explain but you take my meaning....

Narp · 24/04/2016 19:33

I found THIS really interesting when I went to the Space Centre in Leicester.

Basically, the first astronauts should have been women

Kewcumber · 24/04/2016 19:39

Tiger, the inventions you cite aren't the result of space travel, they are the solutions to fix problems that would occur when travelling in space

That is the most bizarre rationalisaton of how things invented in order to fix problems when travelling in space aren't really a result of space travel.

That's a bit like my argument with DS about how I was nearly a professional ballerina. Except that I wasn't. But if I had any talent and some lessons and been about 5 stone lighter I would have been (if I had ever actually danced after the age of 4). So that counts.

TheChimpParadox · 24/04/2016 19:40

6 months away from home, two little boys on earth missing their Dad. Absolute ego trip - will look good on his CV and then when he gets back to earth will expect to walk into another job Hmm

ego trip what a lad of tosh. !

Has brought space into our livng rooms by the use of social media. I think it's fascinating and all the scientific work.

SukeyTakeItOffAgain · 24/04/2016 19:59

I like Tiger Tiim Henman I think he was a fine tennis player. Number 4 in the world isn't too shabby. Six GS semi finals is Quite Good.

MumOnTheRunCatchingUp · 24/04/2016 20:03

Op.... What have YOU done this week which is inspirational??

HildaOgdensMuriel · 24/04/2016 20:14

Mumontherun now I hear Heather Small:

"What have you done today to make you feel proud?!" Grin

Original poster
Namechangingchameleon · 24/04/2016 20:34

Lol lol at "what have you done this week which is inspirational?" Seriously ? Do you like everyone then mumontherun? Or if you don't do you always have something to compare yourself to them by?

If you must know, I spent a few days in Spain, ate nice food and drank more wine than what was good for me. I also was thrilled to be practicing my evening class Spanish that I've been taking for a few months and was actually understood! 😃

So it was a good week really. Next one looks very humdrum sorry! I can't dislike anyone cos I haven't been inspiring! 😂😂

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JCDenton · 24/04/2016 20:44

The ISS will likely have cost 150 billion Euros, contributed to by the EU, Japan, Russia, the USA and Canada over about 25 years of operation. About £8 billion of this came from the European Space Agency, so about £320 million Euros per year for the whole of the EU.

The UK's foreign aid budget alone is over £11 billion a year, this clearly isn't a case of run the ISS or cure global poverty.

scotsgirl64 · 24/04/2016 20:59

The argument that some things would not have been invented , but only were to make space travel easier is bollocks!
Chemotherapy wouldn't have necessarily been 'invented' were it not for the use of mustard gas in WW1 and the associated pancytopoenia ( google it if you don't know what this is!)
We need science to make our life better...the answer to global warming and poverty /hunger may be resolved by space exploration and its associated research
Science rocks!

Homeriliad · 24/04/2016 21:06

YANBU. Tim Peake running a marathon in space is just so passe. He joins the other people on my boring list: Napoleon, Muhammad Ali, Henry VIII, Jesus. Borefests the lot of them.

Nicky333 · 24/04/2016 21:10

Thanks hula. I do think that he should run an actual marathon on actual earth roads when he gets back down and acclimatises. Be interesting to see if he can run a 3:35 then.

lougle · 24/04/2016 21:26

One of our Special School children had his photo, dressed as an astronaut, posted on FB to Tim Peake and Tim Peake (or his team) posted back a lovely reply, saying that he'd be his space buddy any time. I think he's fab for that alone Smile.

Vaara · 24/04/2016 21:29

You know, actually being social, enjoying people's company and not fucking off to space for 6 months is fulfilling enough for me. Where did the money come to fund this ego trip anyway?

Oh my god that the funniest thing I've ever read on Mumsnet! GrinGrin

Vaara · 24/04/2016 21:32

I'm agog at the idea that watching the marathon on Telly with a hangover is more interesting then running a marathon IN SPACE!!

OP you sounds about 12.

Bue · 24/04/2016 21:45

Utterly boring and irritating.

They're trying to brand him as the new Chris Hadfield but Chris Hadfield is a thousand times more charismatic so it just falls a bit flat. Whoever used the word worthy was spot on.

I'm sure Commander Peake can take the criticism, he's obviously made of reasonably tough stuff as he's managed to become an astronaut and all!