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   Designed to Suck

   

   Joe Splace, Jul 13th, 2001 @ 8:54pm

   
   

   I am one of those people who suspect that the International Space Station is merely a cover for a money laundering operation designed to thinly veil the lining of the kleptocrats pockets in Moscow. Clinton, Gore and Bush all have some things in common -- not one of them ever opposed the Space Station, or asked that the U.S. be reimbursed for even a fraction of the aid money stolen by the Russian thugs in the last few years. Tourists in space -- sure, we'll pay for that, too!

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   space station

   

   Pat Stakem, Jul 16th, 2001 @ 8:47am

   
   

   Well, I have read the complete (yet edited) report. It is interesting to read how much on-orbit time is spent in troubleshooting, fixing, and working around problems. There seems to be a lot of problems with software, system configuration, routing, and email. They use commercial laptops, running Windows. Have we exported our problems to space? Manned on-orbit time is a VERY expensive resource - it should be used for new discoveries, not fixing old problems.

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   Re: space station

   

   Enrique Ruiz, Mar 31st, 2003 @ 6:54pm

   
   

   I worked on that hunk of crap in Kennedy Space Center. It is the most pathetic peice of just I have ever seen. The laptops the astronauts would use were some cheap ass slow processors and the bus protocol the system uses is slow. What they are sending up there is a huge storage container which will be plagued with problems and will be of little use. The reason why the program is having budget overuns is that an engineer cant do anything without having to get 50 signatures and 5 techs. And thats even to turn on a computer monitor.

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