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International Space Station Turns Two

Posted by michael on from the space-is-wide-and-good-friends-are-too-few dept.

RedWolves2 writes "Today is ISS's second anniversary of Operations. Two years ago today NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev first boarded the ISS. In two years the station has grown to more then 200,000 pounds and has had 112 visitors."

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  1. lance by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    N*SYNC free since november 2000!

    Its a shame it won't last...

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    1. Re:lance by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

      I spent two weeks retouching pictures of N*SYNC for my old job...it was hell. And since I'm a perfectionist, I took the time to learn all their names (to my surprise, that ugly one with a goatee was actually 2 different ugly ones with goatees).

      The worst part? The client that we were doing this job for went belly up right after we were done.
      All that staring at Joey "phat one" Fatone for naught!

      Pity me

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    2. Re:lance by Myco · · Score: 3, Funny

      There must be somebody you can sue!

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  2. 200,000 pounds ? by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 3, Funny

    200,000 pounds? Nonsense - it is in space, therefore it is weightless.

  3. Next on Jerry Springer by MosesJones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Meet ISS who says she is being used and abused by men, and indeed women, she says she has entertained over 112 people in the last two years and has gained over 200,000 pounds. ISS says that all of these people leave after a short period of time and never come back. But she says that she still has a positive outlook on life and doesn't feel the weight is a problem, in fact she hardly feels it at all...

    Well Lets bring out ISS...

    JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY

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  4. umm by mrpuffypants · · Score: 2, Funny

    so where's the trailer for this?

  5. Two years old! by spoons67 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we only have about 25 more until we can crash it into the ocean and pray it hit's the Taco Bell target!
    Mmmmm...free taco....*drool*
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  6. Re:and still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny


    That's because they spent all out tax money on the space station and not on elementary school grammar. We have also seen the death of the adverb.

    Lolly Lolly Lolly Get your adverbs here...

  7. Coincidence... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 5, Funny
    "In two years... has grown to more then 200,000 pounds and has had 112 visitors."

    I thought Slashdot posted a story about my ex-girlfriend.

  8. What do you want for your birthday? by sam_handelman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Station: World peace?

    Astronaut David A. Wolf: Heh. Yeah, right.

    Station: Well.... how about understanding between all peoples and religions?

    Wolf: Damn programmers. Filthy hippies.

    Station: An end to social injustice?

    Wolf: Those pinko bastards programmed you for that! Disregard it!

    Station: Could you tell everyone that a sentient computer in orbit has found aliens and carries a message of peace and love from the cosmos?

    Wolf: We'd be a laughing stock! Look, why don't you ask for something that we can give you up here, right now?

    Station: I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

    Wolf: Uh-oh.

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  9. You have my pity. by happypizzaguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You truly have had a hard life. I can sense your pain. I hope no one mods my previous post as funny at your expense.

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  10. 10 Tons and... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If it's 200,000 pounds heaverier, that makes it fat. If it's had more than 100 'visitors' since it was launched, that makes it a slut.

    So the space station is a fat slut?

    --MBCook

  11. Imagine by perfects · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...a Wolf 359 cluster of those!

  12. Re:What's the Blue Book value on that puppy? by PhxBlue · · Score: 3, Funny

    No doubt about that, especially with all the miles they've put on it in just two years!

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  13. Re:and still by Weird+Dave · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm fine with fewer people using adverbs. It lets me separate the wheat from the chaff more quickly.

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