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No More Science on the ISS Until Further Notice
Dyna-Soar writes "Discovery Channel News is reporting that NASA is canceling scientific research projects on the International Space Station until construction is complete. This may not happen before 2010 or 2012." From the article: "In addition to beginning development of a new manned launch system, expenses to return the shuttle fleet to flight following the 2003 Columbia disaster and delays completing the International Space Station have left NASA with a projected shortfall of up to $5 billion over the next five years"
They might as well evacuate the crew and conduct a little SDI test on this money-sucking white elephant.
...is the most expensive toilet in the solar system.
I mean, seriously, with no research going on and barely any construction between now and 2012, all you have is a group of people eating and shitting, no?
I'm glad to see my tax dollars aren't being wasted on something trivial like curing cancer or developing safe, inexpensive, practical sources of energy.
Hey, Golden Palace Casino...
I don't think there's any orbital gambling laws in place.
Why don't you all just be good folks and build us all a Floating Space Casino.
Who gives a rat about NASA science projects when all we really need is booze and floating space strippers? I bet Space Vegas would finally make us an intergalactic empire!
There is no more science on the ISS because it has been superceded by superior methods and worldviews. Now only Intelligent Design will be studied there. ISS will now stand for "Intelligent Space Station."
At least we've got China's moon landing to look forward to...
The idea of doing science at a tourist resort is ridiculous anyway.
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"I'm afraid I can't let you conduct your experiments here, Dave."
Combine those $300 billion dollars with all the other amounts of money spent by other countries for military purposes, plus all other amounts for stupid things (for example paying athletes millions for kicking a ball), and you get the idea of were money is wasted at.
With that amount of money, we could start building the NCC Enterprise and finish it in 100 years, while in the meantime discovering antigravity and antimatter warp drive.
I am a citizen of the world. Everyday I talk to tens of people from all around the globe, thanks to the internet. I feel silly when the world 'war' is mentioned, because I do not have any real differences with other people. All our differences are artificial, introduced by megalomaniac leaders that want to take over the world, but have no more brain that ...Pinky and Brain.
WE /.ERS MUST START AN INTERNATIONAL MOVE FOR STOPPING ALL PRODUCTION OF WEAPONS OF ALL TYPES OF PURPOSES IN ALL COUNTRIES. THINGS ARE GETTING SILLIER BY THE MINUTE, AND IT IS UP TO US TO SAVE THE WORLD!!!
The feds should look through their sofa cushions. I'm sure there a piddling $5B in there somewhere.
With "Science" out of the way, that clears the way to complete construction on the ISS and clearly the ISS is too complex to have evolved in place (and we have found no space "creatures" that show intermediate steps), so clearly the ISS is the result of Intelligent Design.
Game Set Match.
Kansas wins!
...lots of fun parties with naked strippers....
If they're naked, what are they stripping?
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No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder? - Capt. Jack Sparrow
I can think of a few uses, but they all involve something you science geeks don't seem to be interested in: colonization.
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If they're naked, what are they stripping?
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