What's wrong with "International " Space Station

[Eagler]

 

Originally posted by Boroda:

Should I continue telling you cold war myths?

Nope let's just trade your Vodoka for our Jack Daniels  

always the peacemaker
Eagler

[Boroda]

Eagler, that's a nice offer!  

You know, I never refuse from a good alcohol!   Jack Daniels is too expencive here, maybe 5-8 times more then good vodka, and if you want a mixed drink - it's sometimes better then vodka.

But anyway, I'll prefer an old Armenian or Georgian brandy  

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With respect,
    Pavel Pavlov,
    Commissar 25th IAP WB VVS

[Udie]

 

Originally posted by Boroda:
I aplaude to Udie! He gets the first prize!
       

I think that such a bright guy must not suffer from unemloyment, I hope he can find a job at least as a dishwasher.

And everyone knows that Americans hang Negros and keep Indians in reservations.

Should I continue telling you cold war myths?

 The smiley faces mean we're just joking around right?    As for emloyment   I'll keep in the engineering field i think.  It buys alot more bread than dishwashing, and the bread doesn't get all soggy.

Udie


BTW,  do you guys ever get Jose Quervo Gold over there in Russia?   OHHHH man it's the stuff! Drinking a bottle tomarrow night  



[This message has been edited by Udie (edited 04-13-2001).]

[Tac]

you pathetic soapwater drinkers... AGUARDIENTE is THE stuff. Vodka cant even compare  

[funked]

General Jack D. Ripper: Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: Well, no I... I can't say I have, Jack.

Ripper: Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?

Mandrake: Well I... I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes.

Ripper: On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Mandrake: Oh, ah, yes. I don't quite.. see what you're getting at, Jack.

Ripper: Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, you realize that.. seventy percent of you is water.

Mandrake: Uhhh God...

Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake: Yes. (Chuckles nervously.)

Ripper: You beginning to understand?

Mandrake: Yes. (Chuckles, begins laughing/crying quietly.)

Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

Mandrake: Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?

Mandrake: Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.

Ripper: Well do you know what it is?

Mandrake: No. No, I don't know what it is. No.

Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

(Window in the office is shot through by automatic weapons fire.)

Ripper: (Walks to window and shouts.) Two can play at this game soldier!

(More rounds ricochet through the office, cutting down the overhead desk lamp.)

Ripper: That's nice shooting, soldier!

(Ripper produces a machine gun from a golf bag in his closet. He turns off the lights, then sweeps his desk clear with the gun barrel, placing the gun squarely on the desk.)

Ripper: Mandrake! Come here!

Mandrake: You calling me, Jack?

Ripper: Just come over here and help me with this belt.

Mandrake: (Prone on couch.) I ah, I haven't had very much experience, you know, with those... sort of machines, Jack. I only ever pressed a button in my old Spitfire.

Ripper: Mandrake, in the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress come here and feed me this belt, boy!

Mandrake: Jack, I'd love to come. But, what's happened, you see, is the string in my leg's gone.

Ripper: The what?

Mandrake: The string. I never told you, but, you see, I've got a gammy leg. Oh dear. Gone. Shot off.

Ripper: (Karate-chops the receiver, cycling the action.) Mandrake, come over here. The Red Coats are coming. Come on!

[Fury]

Although NASA does not publicly confirm or deny.....it looks like all is well with the tourist.
 http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/04/20/alpha.tourist.02/index.html?s=8

Fury

[sshh]

So whats wrong now ? China refused to sell good computers to US   or space station runs Windows ?

[Soulyss]

Lol Funked

that has to be one of my all time favorite movies lol

[mrfish]

yeah many earthbound scientists dont like it because they say it draws funding away from their work.

physicists especially - due to the end of the cold war the simpletons in washington aren't interested in the atom anymore because they dont need their nukes so accelerator plans are dropping like flies.

[Loyalist]

Tito is highly certified for the mission. He has prior experience with NASA, and he must have gained a good sense of respect from the soviet cosmonauts who will be going with him, or they sure has heck wouldn't have protested by walking out at the Johnson Space center when NASA was going to deny Tito access weeks earlier.

He is not the first tourist to go into space.

Before him, Toyohiro Akyama (Soyuz TM-11) and Helen Sharman (Soyuz TM-12), visited Mir. They were not professional astronauts, nor space-related workers. Sharman was a chemical worker at a candy plant, and Akyama was a jornalist at TBS TV Tokio station.

Sharman flew more or less like a tourist, since she won a contest in wich the prize was the voyage to Mir. The japanese flew under a special contract to make a TV report and a book.

One NASA employee said:

"I work for NASA and I firmly believe that Mr. Tito has had sufficient training and prior knowledge to make this flight to not detriment to the station. I believe that depending on how the crew and agencies approach his flight, it will cause no significant work stoppage aboard the station either. Mr. Tito is not just another tourist but a knowledgable person with an enineering background that will prevent no hazards to the station."

Eagler, the United States has not "done all the work".  It is called the International Space Station for a reason.  In fact, as I write this now there is a Canadian, Italian, Russian and American on board the ISS.  They are installing the CANADARM2, without which the ISS could not be built.  It truely is an international effort and any one of the partcipating countries has every right to send whomever they wish into space.

[Eagler]

 

Originally posted by Loyalist:
[B}
Eagler, the United States has not "done all the work".  It is called the International Space Station for a reason.  In fact, as I write this now there is a Canadian, Italian, Russian and American on board the ISS.  They are installing the CANADARM2, without which the ISS could not be built.  It truely is an international effort and any one of the partcipating countries has every right to send whomever they wish into space.

[/B]

Stand corrected, the United States has done 90% of the work and has funded 95% of it. The Russians nor any other country does not have the right to turn it into a bed and breakfast any purpose let alone to line their own pockets with $$$.
Heard this morning the shuttle crew will have to leave early, will not be able to stay and fix the computer problems with the arm as the Russians refused to delay their launch of their sugar daddy.

International my arse... just the Reds sticking it up our butt again and the US smiling while saying "thank you sir, may I have another "

Eagler

[Boroda]

Eagler, you are wrong.

Russia invested consierable ammount of money into ISS, especially if you'll look at the economical situation here. And again: Americans are unable to make long time life-support systems. I mean UNABLE, can't, fail when they try, it's impossible for them.

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With respect,
    Pavel Pavlov,
    Commissar 25th IAP WB VVS

[Loyalist]

Also, without Canadian robotics the entire station would not be able to be built.  The Canadarm on the shuttle is responsible for building anything you see up there and the Canadarm2 will be responsible for building anything in the future.  The Italians are responsible for the Raphilio Module which will take supplies to and from the ISS. The Russians built one half of the station and the Americans built the other half.

Have you seen pictures of mission control lately? The guys at CAPCOOM are wearing Canadian Hockey jerserys with three Canadian flags to every one American flag in the room.  

[Gh0stFT]

16 states (Brazil builds as a junior partner of the USA) and
100,000 humans in all world are involved in the development
of the international space station.

According to the ISS plan it will have 6 research labs (2 USA,
2 Russia, 1 Europe, 1 Japan), 2 housing units (1 Russia, 1 USA),
3 nodes (liaison vehicles), 4 supply modules (current supply, fuel),
2 transport systems or rescue systems (shuttle, Soyuz), 4 utility
systems (space shuttle, progress, ATV, HTV), 3 return systems
(space shuttle, Soyuz, CRV),  3 bionic arms (1 Canada, 1 Europe,
1 Japan) and 1 free flier " Inspector " (Europe).
The European proportion to ISS is situated with approx. 6%.
41% of it holds Germany !  

USA: 70-90 billion $
-base development
-shuttle-flights
-Sunsail
-2 research modules
-living module
-centrifuge
-connecting node

Russia: 10-11 billion $
-solar plant
-energy platform
-2 research modules
-living module
-functional cargo block

Europe: 6.2 billion $
-columbus laboratory
-bionic arm system

Japan: 3.2-3.7 billion $
-laboratory module
-bionic arm system

Canada: 0.6 billion $
-bionic arm system


greets
Gh0stFT

[AG Sachsenberg]

Why does this remind me of Spies like us?  Funny as hell movie IMO.

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[This message has been edited by AG Sachsenberg (edited 04-29-2001).]