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5 Years of Habitation on the ISS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wish-tickets-were-cheaper dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The International Space Station has marked five years of continuous human habitation. People started living on the station on November 2, 2000. In five years, the station has hosted 97 people from 10 countries, including 3 commercial passengers. It survived through the Columbia accident and the suspension of shuttle flights. The station is a testbed for long-duration missions to live and work on the Moon and Mars."

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  1. Five Years and no sex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot and a space station are almost indistinguishable.

    1. Re:Five Years and no sex by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh! I know this one, I know it! An astronaut, a /. and a priest go to a bar. Astronaut starts looking for the hottest chick, /.er thinks this is Soviet Russia and hot chicks must look for him.

      Q. What does the priest do?
      A. Profits ;)

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    2. Re:Five Years and no sex by allym · · Score: 5, Funny

      My work arranges visitors from NASA to give talks to schools in Scotland. One night they were chatting to some Glaswegian 'ladies' in a nightclub.

      One of them was asked what he did for a living. The response "Actually, I'm an astronaut" elicited the response "Get tae fuck!" and the ladies stormed off.

  2. Re:Why? by ilyaaohell · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you just buy a DVD box set of SeaQuest DSV?

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  3. Re:lossage by deathcloset · · Score: 4, Funny

    yes, that money should go to the homeless!

    Well, that or they should put the homeless in the space station at least. I mean, with all this research how has nobody thought of testing the effects of zero g on the homeless?

  4. Accomplishments by wombatmobile · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm trying hard to find a solid list of scientific accomplishments for the mission.

    How about accomplishments outside of the scientific domain?

    People of all colors, gender and race from more than a dozen nations have floated above our heads like biblical angels in peace and harmony.

    Achieving nothing.

  5. Re:Why? by dr_dank · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's fix the oceans and live in them, that's more feasible than the moon and mars.

    Yep, a coat a paint and a new rug and that ocean is in move-in condition!

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  6. Re:Meh. by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like to think of it as billions of dollars of extravagent mediocrity.

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  7. Re:It's still not done yet???? by tktk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Five years and counting isn't too bad. Some general contractors take that long building stuff on Earth.

  8. Contractors. by Karma_fucker_sucker · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's always a problem with construction. Contractors go to other jobs: the painters can't do their work because the trim guys didn't start, the trim guys can't start because the dry wall guys aren't done on time because they had to finish a more important job, etc...

    Hey! I wonder if PBS will have a show in 50 yrs or so called "This Old Space Station". Just imagine the tools that the Norm counterpart will have! Mmmmmmmm, power tools.

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  9. Re:lossage by Karma_fucker_sucker · · Score: 2, Funny
    Huh. Before you know it, there will be aliens pan handling outside of the station!

    "Hey human, how about some money so I can buy some Oxygen?"

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  10. Pick up your room! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "International Space Station has marked five years of continuous human habitation."

    And I bet it smells like it too.

    1. Re:Pick up your room! by Stonent1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder if they ever found that tuna sandwich I shoved in the air vent before I left?

  11. Re:Could someone please post accomplishments? by patio11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    An exhaustive list of cutting-edge scientific experiments conducted on the space station:

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  12. Re:Why? by KylePflug · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah, the day after christmas. Good move, faceless DVD company.

    *mopes*