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BOB GELDOF COULD become the first Irishman in space after being offered a trip on a commercial space flight next year.
The Boomtown Rats front-man said that he was offered the chance as part of a charity gig ‘The Rats’ are playing next month when space flight tickets were being auctioned for charity:
“You’re a guy someone says to you, ‘Do you fancy going into space?’ Who amongst you would say no?”, he told BBC radio.
Geldof said they made the offer as a gift for his birthday in November:
By the by they just said. ‘Oh, would you fancy a flight to space as a kind of birthday present’. I said yes and that was it.
The space trip will be undertaken by the Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) which is a rival to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic programme. SXC launch from the Mojave Desert in California and from the Caribbean Island Curacao with prices starting at $100,000.
The Irish rocker who gained worldwide fame and was knighted for his work putting together the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts said that the only problem could be is his fear of fairground rides.
“Yea I hate waltzers and I hate rollercoasters so it might be a bit of an impediment,” he said.
“I really wish that they’d just strap me in and I’d go up and have a look around and come back because it pulls 4G’s on the way down. ”
Geldof says that he remembers the moon landings well but “never had this big craving to go into space”. This opportunity was just too big he says though:
The first Irish man in space. The first rock musician, Elvis may have left the building but Bob Geldof has left the planet.
“What’s the downside? I’m 62, if anything happened I’d never know about it, as opposed to lying bewildered in my own filth in some collapsing national health hospital. I can’t see it as much of a risk but even if I was I’d be inclined to take the road less traveled.
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Having fed the world he now wants to move on to bore the universe lol
That he may stay up in it. Take Bono with him as well.
Poor Bob’s been in space for a long time now!
Happy it’s bob and not bono
While I appreciate all the good humanitarian works he’s done…he’s a major pain in de hole!
Hopefully it’s a one way ticket ! Fierce annoying man..
Lucky sod, what an opportunity! Space: the final frontier…Space envy !
Leave him up there. Bore the socks off ya.
I think Bill Cullen will be there before him anyways Geldof is a pain where ever he goes,Give us your f…king money and I will get all the praise.
Could he bring the rest of thr rats that inhabit this island and leave em there yis know the type I refer to
The “Boomtime” Rats?
The very kind
Blackrock College finest
Id think bankrupt Cullen is only wishing he can get off this planet. I dont know for fact but I’d reckon he’s lost his spot on the space flight. NAMA probably took it and sold it for pittance.
Moontown Rat
Having begged like a bum for our money from the parched sands of food deprived Africa 30 odd yrs ago, he’s now goin into space. Somethin ain’t right about this! Let’s hope the double talker stays there!
he’s not irish.
He’s not? Thought he was from Dublin?
british passport, sold his soul
Wonder who he’ll be representing at Golf at the Olympics
lol
It’s Sir Bob Geldolf.
Yes he is hewas born in dun laoighre co.dublin…
Lets hope – as has been said – he stays there . A fake . He describe GW Bush as ”passionate and sincere ”- and as for helping the poor of Africa – here is what John Pilger says about that fake .
”On the front page of the Guardian, the Age of Irony was celebrated as real life became more satirical than satire could ever be. There was Bob Geldof, resting his smiling face on smiling Blair’s shoulder, the war criminal and his jester. Elsewhere, there was a heroically silhouetted Bono, who celebrates men like Jeffrey Sachs as saviours of the world’s poor while lauding “compassionate” Bush’s “war on terror” as one of his generation’s greatest achievements; and there again was Brown, the enforcer of unfair rules of trade, saying incredibly that “unfair rules of trade shackle poor people”; and Paul Wolfowitz, beaming next to the Archbishop of Canterbury: this is the man who, before he was handed control of the World Bank, devised much of Bush’s so-called neoconservative putsch, the mendacious justification for the bloodfest in Iraq and the notion of “endless war”. And if you missed all that, there is a downloadable PDF kit from a “ONE Campaign” e-mail to “help you organise your very own ongoing Live 8 party”.
- and NB—
The suppression of African singers and bands, parked where Geldof decreed, in an environmental theme park in Cornwall far from the vaunted global audience, was described correctly by Andy Kershaw as “musical apartheid”.
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”With Diana, there was grief by media. With Iraq, there was war by media. Now there is mass distraction by media, a normalising of the unmentionable that “the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people”, as Arthur Miller wrote, “and so the evidence has to be internally denied”. Deploying the unction of Bono, Madonna, Paul McCartney, a pop-up Andrew Marr and of course Geldof, whose Live Aid 20 years ago achieved nothing for the people of Africa, the contemporary plunderers and pawnbrokers of that continent have pulled off an unprecedented scam: the antithesis of 15 February 2003, when two million people brought both hearts and brains to the streets of London.”
Full article http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9432.htm
Has he plans to visit planet Earth as well? Arrogant sod
Pls god no. What an annoying person. You know he will try and scream on tv till he is dead yeah loke ya know man I was loke the first irish man in space loke.
What a tool
Phone wreckers are idiots.!
“BOB GELDOF COULD become the first Irishman in space”. Does he get to jump the queue? Other Irish have booked their tickets on Virgin Galactic years ago (Bill Cullen and Tom Higgins, to name two).
Ahhh billix… I had someone else in mind.
I think we could do a fund raiser of our own to buy a one way ticket. He bores the tits off me
Bill Cullen can’t afford a bus ticket at this stage.
And dave, at least i’m not the only person to recgonise it is sir bob, thank u nice tomsee someone else knows his full title….
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