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Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble

Posted by chrisd on from the blame-lance-bass dept.

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)

14 of 360 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Commence "In Soviet Russia Jokes by Nevermore-Spoon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Props
    on the speed at which you preemptivly caught all the Soviet jokes

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  2. They finally shot IIS into space? Good riddance! by mkweise · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When will Windows follow?

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  3. In Soviet Russia... by arglesnaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IIS makes jokes about YOU!

  4. Re:paging Yakov Smirnoff by jonerik · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    [...]or dead.

    I thought he had a theatre in Branson. Which is far worse than death.

  5. In CAPITALIST AMERICA by Nefrayu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In Captitalist America I'd charge you per post for all the "In Soviet Russia" messages I just had to wade through...

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  6. Sadly, I no longer need to imagine by teamhasnoi · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    what a Beowulf cluster of "In Soviet Russia" posts would look like.

    1. Re:Sadly, I no longer need to imagine by rela · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Would someone please explain to me where this bit about Natalie Portman and hot grits comes from?

      Please don't let it be somethingawful. Please...!

  7. Re:What a maroon! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "For a second there I thought my IIS server was going to start serving up "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" web pages!"

    Error 404

    The file has not found you!

  8. Re:If the Russians can't help with the IIS... by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Are they going to switch to apache instead?"

    They did, it was called Mir. It was very patchy.

  9. Not only that, but... by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I heard the Lone Gunmen are dead!

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  10. Brilliant! by Inoshiro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Brilliant, the IIS was doomed from the word go."

    If you didn't know that after CodeRed, did it really take Nimda to tell you this?

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  11. Budget by Kafka_Canada · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    The article touches on the fact that their annual funding is about 309 million versus the U.S. budget of 15 billion.

    Also considered a contributing factor, the Russians' budget was in Roubles, the Americans' in US Dollars.

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  12. Re:In Soviet Russia... by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >> what *is* the Russian word for Weenie anyway?

    Yakov

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  13. OFF TOPIC MY ASS!! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    This is just wonderful. A *bunch* of my posts got modded all the way down to -1 Off Topic in relation to the Soviets and IIS. I lost 11 karma points over it!

    When the article was originally posted, it said IIS and not ISS. That means that my jokes were on-topic, not off-topic.

    If I had lost one ore two points, I wouldn't even care. (heck, even 4'd be fine since that's how many comments I made.) But 11?!

    That is rather overly zealous moderation