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NASA Has Plans for 2nd Space Station at L1
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."
radiation sheilding on the space station isn't so good.
but my tan is great!
"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.
Someone file a patent on flying to the moon! I can see NASA paying some major royalties.
Fault loves the past, worry loves the future, but content enjoys the present.
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.
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.
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
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 ...