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US to Pay to go to ISS
forgotten_my_nick writes "According to BBC News, Russia has announced that it will no longer ferry US astronauts to space for free (It has been doing so for two years). From 2006 the US will be expected to pay."
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pwned
They lessened democracy right after the terrorist attack of their school.
They regarded the Ukraine as problematic, and instead went to have military operations with China.
Now they want to charge for something that should be bridging for international good will.
Russia, the west isn't your enemy.
God spoke to me
shut up
In Soviet Slashdot, Americans infringe rides to the IIS.
Congratulations Mr. Coward!, I didn't think this was possible, but I think that you have actually managed to drag the whole soviet russia thing even further down into the pit of shame than it already is. That or I just didn't get it, but I've thought about it for a minute and I'm pretty sure it just blew.
But Mars has WMDs!
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Putin/Bush not much difference IMHO. Only difference is that the US population are totally oblivious to it.
Hmm,,. Didn't Putin win the elections by a huge margin?
Seriously: can somebody please explain to me why this is considered a troll?
I have no problem with anybody disagreeing with me, but is any point of view that doesn't suck up to the party line a troll?
You're the one misleading here. We don't know when La Palma will fall. It will happen from tomorrow to a millenium from now. We don't know and we're not watching it either.
.sig says. If you read more into it, that's an interpretation. If you think the .sig will get people to read about the problem, so much the better - maybe it'll save a few million lives.
Are you saying you somehow know it won't happen in the next month? (there's no activity now, so it obviously won't happen tomorrow) That's more than the geologists who study this stuff know, so you ought to talk to them about it.
What we do know is that a Mega-tsunami will hit the US. That's all the
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I've just seen your "Troll" comment in M2, and metamod'd the Troll moderation as unfair - I might point out that asking why a particular moderator did what they did is asking to be modded down. Just rely on M2 to catch the moderators who're moderating with the aid of a crack-pipe, random number generator, or otherwise ignoring common sense.