Tim Peake sounds like Twin Peaks and people can't cope

As you're undoubtedly aware, a rocket containing British astronaut Tim Peake launched this morning as its journey to the International Space Station (ISS) began.

However, this being the world we live in, some people became confused over what interstellar space travel has to do with a serial drama about an FBI Special Agent and an unsolved murder.

Some thought the two were linked

... while some got creative

This guy threw in a nice reference

... and this guy kept things topical

There was laughter

Frustration

... and plain old confusion

What would Agent Cooper make of it all, we wonder?

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