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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 12:44 PM Aug 2015

Dreams of space flight past

Indian Givers: NASA is sending scavengers around to museums that have received retired space shuttles, removing reusable parts to serve as spares for the International Space station. The parts, in plain brown paper wrappers, would be lifted into orbit by Soviet-era Russian spacecraft. (via Charles Kingsley Michaelson, III at "Some Assembly Required&quot

Now tell me again about how colonizing space and building orbital hotels will be a big thing in the future.

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Dreams of space flight past (Original Post) Binkie The Clown Aug 2015 OP
Th TV told me along time ago,thats why. Go Vols Aug 2015 #1
The morons have won. Oneironaut Aug 2015 #2
Please book me room on Hilton Space Station 5 for next Friday and Saturday. longship Aug 2015 #3

Oneironaut

(5,504 posts)
2. The morons have won.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 12:49 PM
Aug 2015

We'd rather build bombs and blow people up than explore space. Space travel isn't lucrative for the MIC. If you want technological progress, you're going to have to depend on other nations.

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