I quite enjoyed the transmission, but for something so extraordinary the astronauts certainly did their gosh darndest to make it sound routine and run-of-the-mill; for example, advising viewers that Saturday morning is earmarked for vacuuming the aluminium foil vessel they call home for months at a time. Boy, who wouldn’t want to be an astronaut.
I assume they were dumbing it down for the Superidiots, who doubtless think the ISS is located somewhere in Idaho. Part of the telecast involved the astronauts looking out the windows and pointing at remote villages in Greenland that no-one cares about.
Unfortunately they wrote on the TV screen what these places are called with special magic outer space marker pens, so now the Superidiots will think that earth looks exactly like an atlas from outer space.
Those astronauts do however have a groovy but legless Robonaut aboard the ISS who carries out all the daunting work that they are too chicken to do, like beer runs to the next galaxy, or mundane tasks that they can’t be arsed doing, like beer runs to the next galaxy. NASA are currently training Robonaut to remotely perform some medical tasks, like giving injections... I’m pretty sure I never want a robot jabbing a needle into my arm ever.
The ISS is also currently running a research program for kids called Ants in Space. It sounds kind of like the Pigs in Space program, but with ants. Basically a bunch of really, really smart ants have been suited up in cute little astroant suits and their group behaviour in micro gravity is being monitored so a bunch of high school kids can watch live from earth and learn the hard way that even ants are smarter than them.
I hope that all the astronauts are informed of this experiment, just in case the ants escape and get a hit of Mortein up their noses.
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