He smokes more than Marlboro
The aliens are coming in 2027 apparently.
Hopefully they can hurl.
Is that all that can stop the eight in a row?
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There is another race of weirdos on the south coast that will do that.
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Not sure if it was on here or on my Tick and Tock feed, but the lunar landings, what a crock of shit. Nixon talking to the astronauts on his 1970’s desk phone, pictures of the lunar craft landing and taking off (who was manning the camera??). The bucket of nuts and bolts what were the lunar crafts. The fact that all information around the lunar landings is now gone. It’s bullshit!
This is how it starts, this time next year you’ll be inside in the Grand Parade threatening librarians wrapped in your Irish lives Matter tricolor 
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If you’re going to pull off a conspiracy this big the most obvious place to do it is with the world watching on live television so nobody sees it.
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It’s not a conspiracy, but it’s so sad that humanity managed this in the fecking 1960s in a “bucket of nuts and bolts” and haven’t been farther, or indeed back, since.
I think we sent a probe to Mars pal
We did. But we didn’t send men (or women) up. The furthest we’ve gone as a species happened in the 60s and 70s. The furthest anything man-made has gone was Voyager 1, which is 70s technology too.
We don’t need to send people anymore.
We’ll eventually need to send everyone.
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I’m looking forward to my retirement years on Mars, I’ve a lovely plot already picked out on the northern slopes of the Tharsis Montes.
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I’ll probably get to you handier for a pint then 
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The domeage would be unreal in 38% gravity. 
One of my earliest memories where I could (sort of) make sense of the world was hearing about poor Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who won the Citizen In Space competition to become an astronaut. She was from Boston and an Irish American and we heard about all this on the news and it was all very exciting and isn’t she great and isn’t all this great.
Then Challenger blew up and she was dead, they were all dead. I don’t think I saw it live on the telly but I saw it on the news alright, and everybody saw it and everybody was talking about it. It was very shocking and upsetting and I think the general public largely lost enthusiasm for space exploration after it. The Columbia shuttle disintegrating didn’t make as much of an impact on the general consciousness but pretty much put the tin hat on public enthusiasm for sending people into space.
Sunderland were very paranoid when they demanded Stefan Schwarz give up his ticket for a passenger flight to the Moon when he was signing for them, in hindsight.
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Would it be quicker out of Dublin or Shannon?
I think when compared to the many, many other stupid and pointless ways we send people to die, space exploration is a far more worthy cause (with far less casualties).
It will, someday, be necessary for humanity to leave this planet, even if Eamon Ryan manages to stop climate change.
Shannon. The residents near DUB would object to the noisiness of flights evacuating people from our dying planet
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