European Space Agency
About European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA), pronounced 'ee-sah', is a 23-member international organisation devoted to space exploration. It has its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 3,000 people globally as of 2025. ESA was founded in 1975 in the context of European integration. Its 2026 annual budget was around €8.3 billion.
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The European Space Agency used its centrifuge and a specially made deep fat fryer to make fries. They found that the sweet spot for the best chips was about three times the Earth's gravity, which is about the same as you would find on Jupiter.
from 291: No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip, 2019-10-18 at 00:47:23 · read transcript
Other times European Space Agency came up
Pshhhhhh! Okay. Leicester City, they... They do a lot of the science, you know, behind it, and they were doing a study in 2021 for the European Space Agency about turning their grass clippings into because if you pile up the clippings, it creates a lot of methane gas anaerobic digestion. You are sounding like Nick Richards. You're like for like. I don't know what's happening.
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The probes managed to deflect the main body, but they caused a fragment to break off, which then headed for the eastern US. Despite having eight fictional years to devise a plan to save the world, the team was unable to stop New York from being flattened. The European Space Agency tweeted, along with the simulation, although every tweet had to be accompanied by the hashtag in caps lock, fictional event, so that people didn't freak out about it. The threat of an asteroid strike isn't entirely theoretical.
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You sound exactly like him. Really? Okay. Yeah. Lesser City, they do a lot of the science, you know, behind it. They were doing a study in 2021 for the European Space Agency. Wow. About turning their grass clippings into, because if you pile up the clippings, it creates a lot of methane gas because of anaerobic digestion. Now you are sounding like Nicorichens. You're like for like.
No Such Thing As Darts Vader, 2024-08-01 · listen
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291: No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip put 3 places on the map.
Coordinates: 48.8483, 2.3042