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US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the give-ya-five-bucks-for-it dept.

greysky writes "On the 45th anniversary of his first trip into space, astronaut John Glenn says the U.S. is not getting it's money's worth out of the International Space Station. From the article: "Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost to President Bush's goal of sending astronauts back to the moon and eventually on to Mars is preventing some scientific experiments on the space station"."

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  1. oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell the President there's oil on the ISS.

    1. Re:oblig. by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now why would you want us to invade the station? Its allready falling apart witout us bombing it.

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    2. Re:oblig. by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny
      Too much trouble. You would have to start by explaining to him what "ISS" stood for. Then you would have to explain the concept of a "space station." Then you would have to explain about a hundred other things, like why we need oxygen on a space station, why astronauts wear spacesuits, etc. By then, it would be his nap-time, and since he always wakes up cranky you'd just have to come back the next day and start all over again.

      Better to just go right to Cheney.

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    3. Re:oblig. by Cctoide · · Score: 2, Funny

      Cheney? Nah... I know you can't blow up an airplane with a single shot from a handgun, but I wouldn't try to see if the same thing happens with the ISS and a shotgun.

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    4. Re:oblig. by killproc · · Score: 5, Funny


      trying not to be an apologist, but fer Christ's sake, I would thing that most Yale graduates can grasp the concept of a space station.

      I can understand if you dislike the man, but he's likely "at least" as intelligent as you are, based on your comment history.

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    5. Re:oblig. by dosquatch · · Score: 4, Funny

      So he'll divert money from the Iraq war to the Star Wars program?

      I just called him up. He says he'll divert the funds, but only if Cheney gets to shoot that Jar-Jar guy.

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    6. Re:oblig. by TeXMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

      And how would that be different from, say, Iraq?

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  2. I say we nuke it from orbit by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its the only way to be sure.

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  3. Oh no by BigHungryJoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space!

  4. Well of course... by The+Orange+Mage · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're not going to get money out of the ISS unless you've either got a low gravity mint up there, or are growing hydroponic money trees, both unlikely.

  5. Oh GOD no... by zappepcs · · Score: 4, Funny

    not another president that needs to be told what ISS is ?

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