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Old 10-12-2009, 02:38 AM
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kinetic (Steve)
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
One thing I can tell you now and that's the ISS is the biggest white elephant they've ever put up into space. Redesigned about 7 times and 5 times as expensive as it should've been. So far it's done nothing, at least nothing worth writing home about. No one wanted it, except NASA and a few pollies...even there it was nearly voted out of existence in Congress. Not too many scientists wanted it, either.
You are kidding , right?

Steve
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