Russian Resupply Crash Could Mean Leaving ISS Empty

astroengine writes "In the wake of the Russian Progress vehicle crash shortly after launch on Aug. 24, a chain of events has been set into motion that could result in the decision not to fly astronauts into orbit. If this happens, the ISS will be temporarily mothballed before the end of the year to avoid landing astronauts during the harsh Kazakh winter."

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Re:Oh if only

[hairyfeet]

Uhhh...we're broke dude, sorry. While the debt piles on we have Grover Norquist passing around a "Never in a million years will we tax the 1%ers EVAR!" and the teabaggers are happily lining up to sign. It is all part of Norquist's "Drown the baby in the bathtub" plan which fits nicely into the repubs magical "More monies for teh RICH nom nom nom" plan they've been pushing for damned near 40 years.

It don't help that Obama is the biggest pussy since Jimmy Carter but short of another Teddy Roosevelt to bust the trusts I don't think he really could have done much anyway. The top 1%ers, thanks to Reagan deregs, now own the entire MSM so the "give teh rich MORE MONIES! Nom nom nom" is gonna get front and center and anyone that expresses a different idea is gonna be ignored or labeled a nut. I don't care for Ron Paul's policies but when the guy can raise millions in a single day simply by grass roots popular support? And then he is completely ignored? It don't take Colombo to solve the mystery, it is the simple fact he isn't singing the corporate master's tune.

In the USA we've had trickle down, voodoo economics, the "hey lets make trade deals with countries with NO workers safety or rights!", the "Teh rich only have 85% of teh monies, that ain't right! We'll give 'em big tax breaks while running TWO wars to give our friends a way to make even MORE monies!" which BTW is the first time IN HISTORY that the country has been at war and NOT raised taxes, and finally "Bailout baby bailout!" and now they are completely ignoring and glossing over the record of Perry, his relationship to Ali Khan, or the fact that under his watch every reasonable metric in Texas has gone to dead last, worse than even MS in many.

But expecting the USA to do anything progressive or forward thinking any time soon is like wishing for purple ponies friend, it just ain't gonna happen. We actually have WORSE wealth disparity than during the days of the robber barons, and even that isn't enough. look at how many of the rich howled when buffet pointed out his secretary pays more in taxes than he does? Where once we were asked "what we could do for our country" now it is "More MONIES! nom nom nom!" with any response to pleas for help met by a picture of Goatse by the 1%ers and their slaves on the left and right.

Future space program? Give it up buddy. Hell before long the schools will be teaching that the world is only 6000 years old and everything bad is caused by Satan. We are going backwards folks, the poor had less wealth inequality during the age of the robber barons, which sadly is the goal. We are gonna back to the age of serfs and barons, anything for the good of science and the people be damned.