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Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble
Uhh_Duh writes "cnn.com is reporting that the Russian space program has fallen on hard times and is no longer capable of launching independent missions due to budget problems. The article touches on the fact that their annual funding is about 309 million versus the U.S. budget of 15 billion. They've also announced that they will not be meeting most of their future deliverables for the international space station." (corrected, the title originally said "IIS" instead of "ISS)
Carry all of the boy bands into space for $100 million...then take bids on an open auction to leave them there...
I'm not suprised Russia had a hand in making MSFT's web server product.
Maybe they mean ISS? Who knows? Who cares?
Oh god I've just had a premonition. We are going to have a lot of In Soviet Russia jokes aren't we...
are they going to switch to apache instead?
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble... can't we just go to Starbuck's for coffee?
I didn't realise The russians space program was so involved m$ products...
What's a bafoon?
Do you mean buffoon?
You are a spelling idiot. Self-fullfilling prophecy?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
We better tell the Soviet Russians that if they don't pay up, all their space base are belong to us.
Please try to keep posts on topic.
The International Space Station is now neither International nor a Space Station. Discuss amongst yourselves.
An American astronaut in space in 1970 was asked by a reporter, "How do you feel?"
"How would you feel," the astronaut replied, "if you were stuck here, on top of 20,000 parts, each one supplied by the lowest engineering bidder?"
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Sorry, for a moment there I thought I read it as "Monkey" Dependence. Said to self, "Are they still sending those poor things up there? No wonder..."
When has Russia's role NOT been in trouble as a partner in ISS ? Honestly I'm waiting for the news that'll say :
Russia's Role in ISS no longer in trouble!
Now THAT will be news.
lone, dfx.
Sorry, I have to....
In Soviet Union, Comrade Natalie Portman pours hot grits down your pants!
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Based on this article confusing the ISS with IIS is due to reading slashdot too much. It's safe to assume the person who posted IIS isn't reading slashdot enough to be warned of BIG mistakes (considering the amount of invaluable posts moderated high) which could be made.
...can't they compensate with pitch and yaw?
Whats the difference - seems the're both flawed in design, implementation and dependence on unreliable suppliers...
Next time add a few obvious spelling errors in the post so that the editors don't have to add them themselves.
1) The International Space Station becomes the American Space Station due to the lack of participation from other nations.
2) 10 years from now, the full project is launched. Yeah, this is hypothetical, just deal.
3) Teachers get excited and want to show their students the breaking news at cnn.com.
4) Censorware detects "ASS" all over the site and denies the teachers and students access to the biggest NASA news in years.
Then there was the time I accidentally misspelled "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury" as "I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you! And burn your goddanmed houses down!"
Boy, that was a doozie.
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