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Just great, another billion dollars spent in the name of science.

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John Larkin

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You're such a goddamned retarded idiot.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Killjoy! They get pretty bored orbiting for months in that tin can. On the plus side it doesn't smell quite as bad as MIR did towards the end.

I am no fan of the ISS as much of the "science" done on it would not pass muster at a high school science fair. Manned space exploration is pretty pointless now unless we find something our robotic systems cannot handle. Humans are just too fragile in the hard vacuum of space.

This is actually quite a good science demo for schools. Making a VdG machine from Lego is definitely cool. Doing it in orbit even more so. I particularly liked the bit where he had the charged foam orbiting his VdG cylinder. The shapes that water takes are also rather fun.

He is wrong about Leyden jars though - with real ones once they are properly charged up they can pack one hell of a dangerous punch.

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Martin Brown

Imagine the great aeronautical and unmanned scientific stuff that NASA could do if the space station weren't burning billions of dollars a year, killing astronauts and performing bad high-school science projects.

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John Larkin

Didn't you straighten out several critical design issues that made the whole program possible? You're my hero .

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Micro-gravity fluid dynamics experiments need to be done. And they ARE being done. New graphine utilization and configuration experiments too. It is just sad that the idiot thinks that mankind garners no scientific or civil gains from such research.

The rotten Larkin bastard lies in saying it costs a billion dollars too.

I think he *smells* a lot, and you ain't giving off that rose like aura either, pal.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

Name one thing that the ISS has done that's worth the dollars and lives expended. One thing that has been genuinely useful.

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John Larkin

It's given the Russians a way of retaliating against sanctions that doesn't get anybody killed.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

You are a joke and EASY to DEFEAT 100%

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Are you trying to say that none of these kids' educations gained any benefits from the science of not only the experiments done, but of the learning they had to do to understand them and be a part of the process is not a benefit to the US and any other participating nation and their growing kids? And that is just ONE aspect of the Labs in place up there.

Bang, bang. Your dead. They found the gun, with your fingerprints on it, next to your body.

Your gravestone reads "John Larkin" "Condescending bastard who only thought he knew science". "Killed by own stupidity".

If only you had the balls to give yourself what you deserve.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

"Effect of microgravity on the formation of silly putty." Your tax billions at work.

In other words, it's all PR.

I doubt that many kids pay any attention to the ISS. Probably half of them don't know what it is.

Name one ISS scientific result that's genuinely useful.

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John Larkin

Here is one which will help humanity:

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The "Columbus" module experiments as well.

Essentially, you have blinded yourself with some stupid bias you self imposed some time ago with regard to NASA.

They probably turned down some design proposal you gave, and have since ignored you, so you TRY to ignore them, but only serve to highlight your own self imposed ignorance.

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DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno

The cold atom thing? It hasn't been launched yet, so can't qualify as an answer to my question.

And it could be launched as its own satellite; it doesn't need the ISS.

And how will it help humanity?

I'm still waiting for one example of useful science from the ISS.

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John Larkin

More exciting than this

Cheers

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Martin Riddle

Granting that John Larkin isn't interested in science in general and doesn't understand the science that does catch his attention, as in anthropogenic global warming, he's going to be waiting a lot longer than the better informed members of the community.

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John Fields

They do plenty of good stuff already. The Hubble is still going strong today despite an initially shaky start. Progress on the Webb telescope is slow but steady and putting it at L2 they can't just send a manned mission up to tweak it if the thing isn't right first time.

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They wouldn't though - putting people in space appeals to the gung-ho militarists who mainly wanted the ISS to prevent former Russian rocket scientists helping the likes of Iran and Pakistan build ICBMs.

Think of it as an anti nuclear proliferation job creation scheme and you are close to the truth. Almost everything worth finding out about people in zero g was long since discovered on Skylab or MIR.

Any money saved would just be turned into more random drone strikes.

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Martin Brown

Hours and hours of live coverage of EVA missions. I do watch that stuff and love it.

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Fritz Wuehler

It's just another government jobs creation and economic stimulus program, spending money they don't have. There are more important things NASA could be doing.

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bloggs.fredbloggs.fred

You mean besides the Lego van de graff? There was that remake of David Bowie's Commander Tom.

George H. :^)

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George Herold

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