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NASA Has Plans for 2nd Space Station at L1

Posted by michael on from the lead-lined-underwear dept.

Keith Gabryelski writes "New Scientist has an article on NASA's unveiling of a "blueprint for the future" of space exploration. It entails a Space Station 5/6ths of the way to the moon. In other news, radiation sheilding on the space station isn't so good."

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  1. yeah but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    radiation sheilding on the space station isn't so good.

    but my tan is great!

  2. Plan ahead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If you sent two people to Mars, one of them would die," says Marco Durante of the Federico II University in Naples

    I think the key to preventing this is to pack enough food that the astronauts are not forced to resort to cannabalism.

    1. Re:Plan ahead. by muertos · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or send somebody else instead of the guy who'll die.

    2. Re:Plan ahead. by Nordberg · · Score: 4, Funny

      Solution: Only send one guy.

      Madhouse: Satirized for your protection.

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  3. Quick! by NASAKnight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone file a patent on flying to the moon! I can see NASA paying some major royalties.

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  4. Re:Radiation is a solved problem by npietraniec · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lead is really heavy... Maybe? Do you know how many N*Sync members you could get in space instead of a couple of sheets of lead?

  5. Re:cant even afford current station by shut_up_man · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree about the Imax movie, it's excellent. Even Tom Cruise's hugely overdone voiceover doesn't ruin it: "And the VIEW HERE is... AWESOME. Just... AWESOME. No really, it's TOTALLY... AWESOME." Kinda like a cross between Keanu Reeves and William Shatner, with liberal snorts of cocaine.

  6. Home on Lagrange by whovian · · Score: 5, Funny

    To the tune of "Home on the Range"

    Home on Lagrange

    Oh, give me a locus
    Where the gravitons focus
    Where the three-body problem is solved
    Where the microwaves play
    Down at 3 degrees K
    And the cold virus never evolved.

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  7. Why get upset? by g4dget · · Score: 4, Funny

    The New Scientist is to Nature what the National Enquirer is to the New York Times. But, hey, lots of people read the National Enquirer for fun as well. Only that when people start taking it seriously that people get hurt.

  8. Great ... spill the beans ... by dustpuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    now that you have publicised the radiation risk, there is no way that Nsync singer will go into space ... and there dies our last chance of getting him sterilised and stopping him from having offspring ...

  9. Re:I thought an L space colony would look like.. by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ice is a fairly good radiation shield [for window use]. There's ice on the moon. Problem solved.

    Or just keep pissing on a "starter layer" while working up there from the inside :-)

    A glass layer between the outer window and the environment rooms could perhaps keep the outer layer of water or piss cold enough to stay frozen.

    I saw a documentary on WWII guns the other day. If your gun jammed in the cold weather, then pissing on it was a common trick to get it working again.

    Piss can be a useful tool if resources are thin.

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