First Clown in Space

Posted by Miss Cellania in Travel & Places on September 18, 2009 at 1:26 am

Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte is paying $35 million to catch a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft later this month. Laliberte calls himself “the first clown in space.”

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte told reporters he plans to tickle the professional astronauts while they’re sleeping, and he’s also bringing red clown noses to try to lighten things up on the orbiting station.

“I’m a person with a pretty high spirit, who’s there to crack jokes and make jokes to those guys, and while they’re sleeping, you know, I’ll be tickling them,” Laliberte said.

Laliberte will also use his trip to raise awareness of world drinking water issues. Link -via Dave Barry’s Blog

 
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Silly Experiments in Spaaaace!

Posted by Ali S. in Funny, Science & Tech, Video Clips on June 26, 2009 at 8:01 pm


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Koichi Wakata, a Japanese Astronaut who is working aboard the International Space Station was given the task to perform a few silly experiments in Zero-G requested by the Earth People of Japan. They consist of the mundane such as performing push-ups, squirting water from a tube, backflips and so forth but then some of them are bizarre like the “flying magic carpet” request! Oh, how I wish I were in space like Koichi and the other fine men and women of the ISS crew! I would see to it if I could perform the moonwalk in Zero-G! ;)

The 16 space experiments in a nifty list – Link (also from Pink Tentacle)

Via – Pink Tentacle

 
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VideoSift Clips of the Week

Posted by Alex in VideoSift on March 27, 2009 at 1:38 am

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The View From the Intl Space Station Window
This short but fantastic video clip is of the view from the Space Shuttle Endeavour's left window looking at the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of the International Space Shuttle.

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Ying-Yang Twins on Cribs - Translated
Does anyone understand what rappers Kaine and D-Roc of the Ying-Yang Twins (shouldn't that be Yin Yang?) are talking about. So thankfully, the guys over at Tasty Booze blog stepped in to translate.

While you laugh at their expense, keep this in mind: they probably make more in a week than we all do in a year. Sad, ain't it?

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While watching this, I had an epiphany about MTV Cribs - the jerky camera work is to distract you from how bad the show actually is! Either that or this is how the younger generation actually see the world, and if so God saves us all.

If you liked that, then you'll love this: Freestyle Rap Battle Translated into Plain English

Men in Black Bloopers
I know that it's been a while since MIB hit the silver screen - but this blooper outtakes are just as funny as the film itself.

What a neat blast from the past: Link

A Ventriloquist and Her Monkey
This one is NSFW (strong language), but it's very funny: here's British actress and comedian Nina Conti performing ventriloquism with her sarcastic and profane puppet monkey Monk.

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(Interestingly, YouTube removed a video "due to terms of use violation" from her own website - what's up with that?)

Iron Man vs Bruce Lee
Who will win? Iron man or the Little Dragon?

Regardless of who wins, one thing is for sure: French Canadian filmmaker Patrick Boivin, the man behind this short clip, sure knows how to make an excellent stop motion animation!

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