Posted on 05/21/2018 12:46:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Trump plans to cut off funding to the International Space Station by 2025. Many people do not even know there is an International Space Station, because it is so rarely in the news, but it has cost more than $100 billion to build and support.
What follows is a complete list of the most important discoveries of the space station over the past 20 years:
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The space station is another example of welfare for NASA. It provides nothing to America, using taxpayer money to provide welfare for scientists and engineers to be tremendously unproductive.
NASA scientists see it differently. That's because they are addicted to space porn: any time an image or data comes from outer space, no matter how irrelevant, astronomers experience physical arousal. And unfortunately, they want us to pay for it. It's like paying for drug addicts.
We are always told that the space station is doing important work. Look, rats float in space! Screws rotate clockwise twice as often as they rotate counterclockwise! Why do they do that? We need to fund another space station for 20 years to find out!
The Trump administration in February proposed ending direct U.S. government support of the space station in 2025, prompting debate and discussion over whether commercial industry can make a business of building and operating orbiting research facilities staffed by astronauts.
Why is that relevant? If it's economical, they will do it; and if it's uneconomical, it won't get done. What's wrong with that?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Reportedly a secret NASA report found that on two occasions the astronauts being sent to the space station were drunk at the time of liftoff. I suppose that's one way of coping with anxiety. And I would assume that they had time to sober up before they actually docked with the space station. Of course if they were joining Russians at the space station, maybe it wouldn't matter.
Once Gatorade discovered the color red, it got good...
Strap some rockets to it and send it into orbit around the moon.
Interesting.
What technologies were developed and manufactured in space that we use here on Earth?
Very narrow minded comment
Learning is the reason
Life in the rut can be lived in relative ignorance
Even though there is some truth and Budgets do need to be adhered too, I find the article disagreeable.
IMHO the engineering and complexity and execution alone is more than enough to build it.
We all dream of a colonized moon, asteroid mining and space station on both ends. All of those are elephants that have to be eaten, and the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
Rent the space, a million a cubic foot/day. Private companies would stampeed for the space, other companies would pop up like fleas to deliver people and material.
Send the cash to treasury, fund NASA as a separate line, let them launch microbots to the least likely places in the universe to discover everything of no value.
Crystals and metals produced in 0g are still classified for a reason. We have the people and the technology... only thing stopping them dead is... government.
Can the ISS be hauled to the moon and put into a lunar orbit to support development of a lunar base? We'd need to develop a space tug ship that can slowly push it out to the moon, but why not?
After all, getting it into space in the first place was the hard part. Why lose the investment now? Let it serve as a space port over the moon for lunar base construction.
-PJ
We don’t own the entire ISS. By treaty it belongs to several different countries, including the U.S. and Russia. I have no idea if it can be “hauled”, or rather pushed into a lunar orbit. It’s nearing the end of its projected life anyway.
Spend the money on cheaper planetary missions.
Wait a second. You left off the discovery of how to make the Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System.
I bet you guys and gals and Trump ancestors would stop development of the wheel or fire : )
Benjamin Franklin quote:
When asked what good a new invention was:
What good is a newborn baby?
#33 Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Human Waste ‘Distribution’ System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJgXPxTzRg
Do you think the space station is a gun free zone?
Outstanding isn’t it? Great to have a reasonable rational adult in the white house!
Spent more money in the last 43 years for little. Got more of a return from unmanned Hubble telescopes and deep space probes. All we really have to show for it was "Diversity 1sts! First black guy in space! First chick to pilot a space shuttle! In the evolution for conquest of space, this doesn't move the ball! Trump is right. No bucks for no Buck Rogers! We should go back to the moon (Mars is a worthless endeavor)
The purpose of the International Space Station was to give the Space Shuttle a destination.
The purpose of the Space Shuttle was to go to the Space Station.
Fair enough. If you're so interested in learning about space, do it on your nickel, not mine.
The Wright Brothers didn't take a dime of government money yet they invented the airplane and changed the world.
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