And for those who still haven't been put off after reading about the process, there's an on-line application form with full details of how to get on the show.

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During the dive, which takes up to four hours due to the high density of the water (it is filled with certain chemicals plus air pressure to simulate the circumstances found in space), the cosmonauts in training practice space walking -- and may lose a few kilos off their waist line in the strenuous process.

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After tens of billions of euros have been spent on these systems, raising consumer electricity prices in the process, not a single coal or gas-fired power plant has been taken off line.

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