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NASA Expands Role of International Space Station
coondoggie writes "NASA is looking for a few good experiments to run in space. The space agency this week said it was seeking research ideas (PDF) from private entities who want to do research on board the International Space Station. NASA said it was looking to expand the use of the ISS by providing access to the lab for the conduct of basic and applied research, technology development, and industrial processing to private entities — including commercial firms, non-profit institutions, and academic institutions. NASA said using the ISS as a national lab could help develop a number of applications in areas such as biotechnology, energy, engineering, and remote sensing."
...too late.
Smile, don't click...
It worked for me when I was renting out a room.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Tell me we're not doing remote sensing experiments on the ISS!
Plane on a giant treadmill... in space!
I'm sick of unconstitutional wasting of my money. I should not be forced to pay for the intellectual curiosity of others.
Come on, we all want to know how sex in space works. Its probably the simplest experiment that would generate tons of interest.
NASA emphasizes the utter uselessness of the ISS by asking people what interesting things can be done with it. This after spending billions of dollars and over a decade of work. This money should have been spent exclusively on robotic probes. There is no compelling case here for manned exploration.
I know, I know, the "get off this rock" crowd will now inundate us with their magical-religious space adventure cult emotional arguments.
I say we send one up there and plug it in and point a webcam at it.
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
LSD. In space.
. . . in space?
It might figure out that missing methane mystery.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
That they are just now doing what they were supposed to be doing since the beginning?
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
What kind of work is useful to experiment on in microgravity?
I know there's some material science stuff but what else?
And in the meantime NASA has been struggling for funding for scientific projects.
Nice. Taxpayer money at work! Way to go Washington!
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
Sadly since I pissed off 1 to many NASA engineers in the past (blah blah Crusader project by UDLP, blah blah trying making some money... blah blah blah remote mining and processing project... sub orbital meteor mining is a stupid idea...)
Anyway they'll no likely to talk to me (ever again) so here are my suggestions. Please feel free to run with them:
1: Sex (Duh. We all want to know.)
2: Artifical ring construction via centrifical force =
Take a spinning sphere and launch a tethered satellite while still spinning. from the teathered satellite launch another teather out such that the secondary teather is long enough to have the circumfrence of the satellite's oribital circumfurance. See if you can get it to hook up back to the original satellite to create an artifical ring on which we can construct stuff. (may required 2 satellites at opposite sides.
3: Behavior of molten metal in low gravity for crystal structure analysis (see if effect is more brittle or harded.)
4: Better estimate of open space survival time of a human being.
5: Field test atmosphering re-entry capable space suit for orbital deployment of troops (GETA LL WARHAMMA 40K ON YA!)
6: Polymer extrusion and blown film line test in low gravity for polymer chain linkage testing.
7: Smoking in the cargo bay in low-G (Can you blow smoke rings in low-g)
8: Will a paper airplain with a weight of less then .5 lbs survive re-entry to Earth?
9: Subspace structural testing to see if spacial structure exists (e.g. test if space itself has an actual shape, e.g. a quantum of space itself (rather then an infinitly divisible continum))
10: Test if the bullshit in DC is so thick you can really smell it on the ISS.
Just a few...
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
I would like to see how much weight Dave Tate could bench press aboard the ISS.
Wait, they want to turn the International Space Station into a national lab? What about all the other countries with a stake in this real estate?
The International space station is now a national lab.
How do the Zerg fly in space?
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...supposed to be proposed before the ISS was launched?
I'm sorry, but I'm a big fan of NASA and I find this whole effort to be ridiculous. The ISS was sold as a tool that would provide all of these critical capabilities and now, all of a sudden, they have to drum up business.
Sorry, but the ISS has officially become a Solution In Search Of A Problem.
Am I confused? How an International Space Station becomes a national lab? Isn't it supposed to be International?
Does anyone can tell how much each country/space agency puts in (costs, investigation output, media coverage, etc.) the ISS?
Used because there is nothing else for you to argue with.
To be more accurate, mostly unused, and that is recycling of *anything* that needs to be hauled up there. They should be exploring repurposing/reuse of any of that thousand$ a kilo stuff they haul up. All of it, no exceptions. I know they recycle astrowhizz now, but they should be doing it with everything. "Trash runs" back are silly. Space faring people will be recycling everything, so the sooner they develop the tech, the better, and that won't happen until they get a mindset change. There really should be no such thing as "space trash", it should be "temporarily not needed valuable materials which we will need later". Once it is launched, it gets used forever, one way or the other.
Heck, I am in favor of them leaving the last shuttle up there as well, see if they can keep it running and rebuild it for a real space ship. Not needing to do re-entry and expensive launch anymore, that cuts down on a ton of the maintenance already.
We do something like this on the farm with older trucks. Once they aren't really road worthy, but still driveable, they just get used exclusively on the farm. The dump truck I use hasn't been road registered for years, but will still crank and run and dump. Why waste a still functioning truck? And when a piece of gear *really* isn't functional anymore, we still scrounge parts and stuff from it to build into something else or reuse it somehow. No waste. If it is steel and cost loot in the past, it is kept and reused somehow, like a little torch and welder action, got another useful trailer. Will=way
So, why waste a still functioning shuttle spaceship, especially once it is already up there? We have enough old aero-crap sitting in museums, or tech morgues like I like to think of them, plenty to "inspire the next generation of sci-nerd-youths", whereas a space based working environment and functional space ship in orbit is more useful, or has more potential, put it that way.
They need a mindset change more than anything else to start this experiment. Too many decades of easy money methinks.
The one constant whose accuracy to this day is horribly disappointing really should be easier to measure in microgravity, or not?
Clone is libelling others on slashdot?
"But basically, I support the law http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1629374&cid=31995628" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Tuesday April 27, @02:40AM (#31995628)
I see your comment quoted above there Clone, as well as you signature Clone in your attempt to libel others here on slashdot. So, isn't Jeremy Reimer the guy who had parts of his website removed for libelling APK by his hosting provider and Reimer was caught email harassing APK by his ISP, Shaw of Canada, when Shaw put Reimer on a tracking ticket for it (which Reimer promptly ceased his email harassment of APK once he was aware of that happening), and arstechnica strangely no longer puts up articles by the blatantly unqualified Jeremy Reimer?
Jeremy Reimer and his friends Jay Little also had their websites removed entirely from CrystalTech.com and from petitiononline.com also, because of their making death threats to APK just because APK showed that Exchange Server stalls due to memory fragmentation are stopped when a memory optimization program is used (microsoft's own called clearmem.exe) after Jay Little, whom Jeremy Reimer brought in because Reimer doesn't even have a degree in CSC or CIS related fields (not even an A+ cert, much less an MCSE or the like to his credit, much less actual degrees) or years to decades of professional hands-on experience in the trenches doing computer work, failed in stating verbatim "I am an Exchange Expert" and when Jay Little saw what APK put up, he tried to harass APK by nitpicking his posts at NTCompatible.com also, where Little stalked APK there and failed on issues regarding ramdisks/ssd and also Windows own error codes/crash codes which got Jay Little kicked from NTCompatible.com as it did on Channel 9 at Microsoft also? Seems that was what happened at Windows IT Pro here http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html which anyone can read.
So much for your libelling others Clone. You can't even get that right and you certainly like lies and libel, which are against the law in the USA and in other nations also.
Clone, I also note that you also called APK, the person you refer to in your signature here, a "spyware maker" http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31736454 , but he noted that Nir Sofer and Dr. Mark Russinovich have also had many of their wares classified falsely as spywares too, and that he took CA's 21 point test and his app did not violate a single point of their test and they downrated his app to "zero threat levels" because of this. APK also put up the very first guide to securing Windows back in 1998 which was highly rated at Neowin in 2001 and grew into the most viewed and most effective guide for securing Windows NT Operating Systems out there currently at 350,000 views strong and being made a sticky pinned thread, an essential guide, or being the most viewed and being usually rated 5 of 5 stars by readers of his security guide for Windows such as here http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=f94b12f3d43b3b9446bed90155910842&showtopic=2662 . At 350,000 views strong and with great feedback too, your calling him that shows you do anything but support the law, and regularly break it with libel on your part towards others clone.
Clone, You are a scumbag libelling little weasel clone, and now everyone will know how much so, after reading this reply. Just because you're a loser that doesn't have a job and because you've never done a thing in your life that's of service to others, doesn't give you the right to libel others who have, clone.
See subject above, and see how Clone tried to libel others here on this website via his signature and was proven wrong here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1632188&cid=31999288 .
Funny how that shut clone53421, eh?
Clone53421 is nothing more than a little out of work bum who can't get a job because he wastes his life on slashdot here libelling others (which is why he won't get a job, because his kind do this rampantly, and this is why suits against them are not worth it - nothing to be had in suing a "ne'er do well" like Clone53421 is why).
Why is Clone libelling apk? Ok:
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Mozilla Firefox DOM Node Moving Use-After-Free Vulnerability:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39175/
Release Date 2010-04-02
Last Update 2010-04-06
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Clone lost his behind in a debate with apk on FireFox http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/23/0415208/Germany-Warns-Against-Using-Firefox (when Germany warned vs. its usage, as they had for IE previous to that) here, regarding FireFox 3.6, which then forced a reissue of FireFox 3.6.2 (not 2.6.2 as Clone erroneously noted it there as also), but during the timeframe of that debate (03/23/2010 - 04/05/2010)?
LOL: FireFox turned up YET ANOTHER SECURITY BUG in their DOM during that debate's timeframe (see between dashed lines above), which forced an issuance of FireFox 3.6.3 on 04/06/2010!
Also, when that news of a NEW FIREFOX BUG came out?
Well - Slashdot's moderators "strangely closed that thread on Germany early" (NOT) in less than 2 weeks...
This libel of apk only showed Clone's poor defense of FireFox (inclusive of citing very old 3-5 versions out of date data on Opera bugs no less, version 9.52 & 10.52 just released today no less in final form) as erroneous, and that Clone is a sore loser.
Clone, face it: Opera's FASTER than FireFox in HTML parse & process work, plus javascript work too, and Opera shows less bugs over time than FireFox does, consistently no less... whether or not you can handle that or not, doesn't matter - you LOSE, as per usual.
Still - They're ALL pretty good browsers though, but this "little tidbit" from a "hacker-cracker/security researcher" MAY "shed a bit of light on the subject" of which browser to use (Because Opera's the overall FASTEST currently & especially on the MOST USED OS PLATFORM THERE IS ON PCs/Servers in Windows, & consistently over time, @ HTML parse work, & again has re-seized its crown in Javascript processing speeds as well, vs. FireFox currently (which typically, Opera led FF there as well over time MOST of the time too)):
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/pwn2own_2010_day_one/
"The problem Microsoft has is they have a big market share, said Vreugdenhil, the hacker who attacked IE. "I use Opera, but that's basically because it has a tiny market share and as far as I know, nobody is really interested in creating a drive-by download for opera. The web at the moment is pretty scary, actually."
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Nuff said, on the subject of which browser even the "hacker/cracker/security researcher types" use, & why (security-by-obscurity, @ THE VERY LEAST).
All the libelling of others online will not help you, once people see how you react in your "geek angst" when you lose poorly due to bogus libelling of others on this website, which makes you appear in your true nature of being a libellous online scumbag weasel.
You're not saying too much now, are you clone53421, after you've been exposed for being a libellous little scumbag eh? It appears that the truth's out about your signature you used to libel another person here with.
Despite your stating you obey laws and such, it shows in your signature that You do anything but obey laws, based on your libellous signature.
What you're getting in return just really only serves you right that you're being exposed for the worthless ne'er do well you are, with a hooker (or shall we say 'dancer', which is only hooker spelt sideways when you come down to it) for your wife.
The ac exposing your libelling others only has 1 thing wrong. You do have a job. As your 'dancer' wife's pimp.
Don't worry. I'll be sure to give you job performance feedback the next time she gives me a b.j. for peanuts in the 'private room' at the strip joint, as to her 'job performance'.
I've got one! It involves mento's, and a certain popular carbonated - and very acidic - beverage.
Rigorous testing would test trajectory, distance, and possible orbital acceleration or coupling. And eventual return paths - if any.
Electrical and mechanical effects on the ejecta would need to be scrutinized. And their interaction with other bodies in LEO.
It would probably be remotely activated, from down here, to ease cleaning problems and expedite the delivery of adequate quantities or detergent and paper towels.
I'm sure adequate support could be found through a convergence of campus fraternities.
If that doesn't work, start an urban legend and see if the busters can be interested in it.
Just. You know - an idea. Just trying to help. Do my part. :)
I think if there's going to be more research going on, there needs to be more experiment space. Only way to do that is either mount experiments on the main truss (but that has limited slots though a few are open) that can be retrieved by the main robot arm and either retrieved via the main airlock or the sample airlock on the japanese module, or more pressurized modules. NASA already is committing to leaving one of their cargo carrier modules up there permanently, but that's just recycling existing equipment for a one way trip. The only other viable way for modules is delivery via tugs with rendezvous capability (Progress/OTV/ATV, maybe BlockDM, maybe Dragon). Which pretty much narrows it down to a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable module due to size and weight constraints, if you want something capacious. There is the outstanding power issue, since it will be difficult to send up any more solar arrays for the main truss (not stopping you doing something on the russian end, but that isn't such a great idea), which means you are still power limited.
Power is going to be a big deal in the future. The VASIMR rocket test will chew a lot of power, and if they ever do that electrodynamic tether propulsion experiment, that will chew a lot of power too. I suppose the alternative is to send up a ground facing energy receiver, either a different solar array/ (solar cell or stirling engine reflector dish) or an inflatable rectenna, and send energy from a series of ground based stations via laser or microwave (space solar power system in reverse), but I imagine there are a lot of other satellites that would prefer not getting cooked...
clone53241, the pussy bullshit artist, attempting to play 'attorney online' lmao:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31746938
So sue him then, pussy. Go for it. I think that once your real name is known to those you libel you'll really be hurting then. Of course, no balls wimps like you are all talk. After all, You're the one talking about "exercising legal options" pussy. Go for it. What an unbelieveable little scumbag weasel and pussy, libeler, and liar that likes to be the "pot calling the kettle black". Lots of talk there clone53421, but no action, and as you said, "actions speak louder than words" big talker wannabe 'internet attorney online' that you are (that likes to libel others no less with malicious intent).
"In case you didn't already know this, changing your IP address to defeat Slashdot's anti-spam mechanism constitutes both fraudulently misrepresenting yourself (A CRIME, as I already told you) and also considered unauthorized access to a computer system (HACKING)." - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @08:25PM (#31743416)
I'll just quote the person you gave a hard time to over there on that because I am basically wondering the same and would like to see your proof too, thanks:
Oh, really? Care to show me a legal precedent OR ruling of that being the case, were I switching IP addresses to overcome the "10 posts per 24 hour limit" on AC users? I sign off as APK, so I am NOT "misrepresenting myself" here, in case you hadn't noticed, lol!
You also stated that YOU are being stalked? clone53421, you did the same to this very guy apk you were was bothering there and its stated from the outset.
Once more, clone53421 the bullshit artist with "legal options he can exercise" -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31746938 (ahem: *cough* "BULLSHIT" *cough*) doesn't seem too credible, intelligent, and is a stalker of others himself. You are pitifully stupid clone54321, you know that? The very things you said the ac apk was doing to you, you do yourself and worse. Amazing, and you wonder why you are being shamed now like this? You had it coming. Jerks like you are what ruin the internet.
See subject and prove what you stated here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1633414&cid=32040320 because I'd like to see proof that it was this apk person you have clearly libeled, trolled (through 3 different threads this past week), and lied about.
The ironically funniest part was how You clone54321 were shot down in your desperate attempt to discredit him, and you hilariously picked Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica who was busted with police being called on him for death threats to apk on Reimer's very website you used, which resulted in his forums having large tracts removed of that material and libel of apk (and his henchman below had 2 whole websites removed by CrystalTech.com), also for email harassing that apk fellow Reimer's ISP put him on a tracking ticket which made Reimer cease and desist the email harassment, impersonating him on his forums and when asked nicely to remove it?
Reimer then pursued apk to Windows IT Pro magazine with a "henchman" in a fat pig named Jay Little who said he was "an expert on Microsoft Exchange" where apk shot that down and Jay Little that obese hog with it, with proof from Microsoft themselves, using their own tty/console mode clearmem.exe app to show that due to memory fragmentation, Exchange servers are KNOWN to stall and what stops it? Memory Optimization programs. He also corrected 'the great russinovich''s work no less, a PHD, who hardcoded paths in his apps (a rookie move) and he ended up thanking apk for it, and lastly, apk predicted VISTA would fail, due to memory and caching (which it did on file copies and the fix? Alter caching in the memmgt section of the registry, here -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920739 ).
So much for PHD's, because as was said in "the serpent and the rainbow'? Mozart could give any Harvard PhD a run for his money. Not only did apk give Dr. Mark Russinovich a "run for his money", he outright floored him in the end there. Did you really think you could outthink and outfox that person?
You tried to on firefox 3.6's bug where Germany said to avoid firefox like they did for IE earlier, but never for opera, and you said they did, lying. Unbelievable. Then, ff issued 3.62 to cover that, & oddly the mods on this forums closed that thread 2-5 or so days earlier than usual. Why? I suspect because the last day that thread was open, firefox turned up yet another unpatched security vulnerability, which would have iced you totally (even more than you were already being dusted there already) by showing that apk is correct that ff gets a lot more bugs than Opera ever does, and takes longer to patch them typically also.
So the usual result from you, is libel and name calling as you are doing here with your insinuations as you did here, you did there. You are too predictable troll (clone54321), and because of that, very simple to out think and out maneuver.
So all that aside after I read through all of this, I had to sound off here on it because you have done the same to me clone54321 you dirty troll. So, show us where apk said that please. It wouldn't really matter if he did because you did indeed libel him here on many accounts like calling him a spyware maker which I also would be steamed about were I he too, and much more, many more times. Once MIGHT be excusable, as you were misinformed by that moron Thor Schrock, but apk told you he called CA's Greg Jensen and passed their 21 point test for malware removal, and though they did not remove his single app (of 50 or so online)? They had to downrate it to zero threat levels. Call him yourself, Mr. Informative (for what? self-modding himself up to +5 "informative" via alternate registered user account logons here? Clone's the type that does that because no way would 1 sentence above be a +5 on any sane forums, quite obviously). Fact is, he probably has a $200,000 libel suit possibility like he said because not only did CA do th
The proper counterpoint is that it violates the Constitution, plain and simple. Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress granted the authority to pay for such things.