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Tom Cruise to star in a remake of an old Agatha Christie classic. - Inkubus - 10-16-2021

Murder On The ISS. Big Grin

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Well fuck off then!

But seriously is it not time to splash the space station, what purpose does the thing serve. But then what purpose has it ever served? Apart from some cleaver crystallography, but as far as I can see that's a big so fucking what, nothing has come of it.

Other than that there is very little to comment on.
To date the thing has cost $150 billion, plus ~4 billion a year to maintain it. For a fraction of that we could have machines sniffing and poking around those fissures on Europa.

And remember the shuttle* program cost ~$200 billion, why?
Well we needed the shuttle to build the space station and we needed the space station to justify the shuttle.
A self licking ice cream. Wiki

Some lovely snark here from Steven Weinberg


Quote:The International Space Station is an orbital turkey, no important science has come out of it. I could almost say no science has come out of it. And I would go beyond that and say that the whole manned spaceflight program, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value.

Human beings don't serve any useful function in space. They radiate heat, they're very expensive to keep alive and unlike robotic missions, they have a natural desire to come back, so that anything involving human beings is enormously expensive.

*Ya'but what about the Hubble telescope?

I think the Hubble could have been launched into position with an ordinary rocket but given that Google search is now so dumbed down it's all but fucking useless for finding this sort of detail. I've given up trying to find out.

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RE: Tom Cruise to star in a remake of an old Agatha Christie classic. - skyking - 10-16-2021

then there's the whole space is chock full of fatal radiation for humans thing. We don't take hints well.