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Astronaut demands SEC games in space ... gets it.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:16 pm
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/nasa-astronaut-watch-sec-games-space/
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Barry “Butch” Wilmore will have an SEC viewing experience like no other.
Wilmore, a NASA astronaut, is set to launch aboard a Soyuz rocket for a mission to the international space station next week, where he will take over in November as expedition commander.
NASA has arranged for Wilmore, a former Tennessee Tech linebacker and avid Tennessee and Vanderbilt fan, to watch games live from the space station. He has also asked to have games recorded and uplinked as computer files through a DVR-like setup for astronauts since streams will cut out as he passes through satellites. Wilmore will have access to several games, such as ones on the new SEC network, that aren’t even available to everyone on Earth.
Wilmore is currently at a cosmonaut training center in Russia and is set to lift off from a launch site in Kazakhstan. At home in Texas, the astronaut says he can’t seem to watch a full game without being interrupted. His wife limits his time on the couch and his children make him change the channel on Saturday afternoons.
“I wish I could watch more Southeastern Conference football—or any football,” Wilmore told the Wall Street Journal. “Sometimes, in the middle of the football game, I end up watching ‘My Little Pony.’ ”
Football plays a major factor into Wilmore’s agenda while aboard the space station. In addition to both Tennessee and Vandy, Wilmore also watches the annual match ups between Florida and South Carolina and Alabama and LSU, which he plans to watch over 200 miles above his home. He is also planning to teach Russian cosmonauts about the game of football.
“They may not understand it completely,” Wilmore said. “I speak a little bit of Russian. I’ll explain as best as I can.”
However, Wilmore’s biggest fear is spoiling a prerecorded game. Astronauts now have access to the Internet and, even in space, it’s hard to find a spoiler-free zone.
“When you’re talking to anyone on earth,” Bloomfield said, “you have to make sure that they don’t mention the score of the game.”
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Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:18 pm to scrooster
Sidewalk Hillbilly
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:19 pm to scrooster
damn right, 'Merica! 
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:19 pm to scrooster
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Tennessee and Vanderbilt fan
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:19 pm to parkjas2001
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Spacewalk Hillbilly
FIFY
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:21 pm to parkjas2001
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Sidewalk Hillbilly
Astronaut Hillbilly. And suck it.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:24 pm to scrooster
frat.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:30 pm to scrooster
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:19 pm to jso0003
There is actually an Auburn flag planted on our moon?
Seriously?
Seriously?
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:09 pm to scrooster
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There is actually an Auburn flag planted on our moon?
Seriously?
No, a different moon.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:10 pm to scrooster
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There is actually an Auburn flag planted on our moon?
frick yes.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:11 pm to scrooster
NO GRIND NO CARE
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:30 pm to LordByron
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No, a different moon.
Must be dumbass ... because there is not one on our moon.
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NY Times: Auburn flag on the moon myth. Just that, a myth.
A set of 10 small blue-and-orange flags accompanied the Auburn graduate Thomas Mattingly, known as T.K., on Apollo 16 nearly 40 years ago. Duties kept him on board while two colleagues went on a crater-strewn walk.
Auburn lore maintains that one of those colleagues — John W. Young and Charlie Duke — deposited a flag on the lunar surface. A flag-bearing T-shirt commemorating Mattingly’s voyage, once sold in Auburn-area stores, has been marketed thusly.
But myth may have blended with fact, and the consensus is that all flags stayed confined to the capsule.
Asked if a flag found its way to the moon, Mattingly, 74, said by phone, “I have no way of answering that question.” Neither Young nor Duke could be reached.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:22 pm to Pavoloco83
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frick yes.
frick no.
But I believed y'all. You made me look just to make sure and I found out y'all were not telling me the truth.
You've lost my confidence. I can no longer trust you.
This post was edited on 9/16/14 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:24 pm to scrooster
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“I wish I could watch more Southeastern Conference football—or any football,” Wilmore told the Wall Street Journal. “Sometimes, in the middle of the football game, I end up watching ‘My Little Pony.’ ”
dude is a damn astronaut and he can't afford a second TV with Netflix for the kids?
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