It's 2025 and somehow we've still yet to see a Twitch stream happening from space—until next week, that is. NASA has announced it'll be doing a livestream a whole 250 miles from Earth aboard the International Space Station, on Wednesday 12 February.
The stream will be happening on the official NASA Twitch and is set to feature astronauts like Don Pettit and Matt Dominick—my astronaut knowledge is appalling but they both have Wikipedia entries so I can only assume they're important based off that metric alone—with Twitch chat having the opportunity to ask all sorts of questions about what it's actually like being up in space.
Now the cynical part of me can't help but automatically go to the absolute worst-case scenario on how that Twitch chat is actually going to look.
I can only assume it's going to go somewhat feral, and I do wonder if seasoned astronauts are ready to deal with an undiluted internet chatroom happening in real-time.
I'm sure they'll have plenty to talk about regardless though, with NASA promising all sorts of insight into day-to-day life aboard the space station while spending a hefty amount of time plugging their various programmes and research.