Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "" video.

@tonyheaton4941 I’m so sick of these hate and ego-fuelled anti-government rants and, especially for this project, I suspect I’m not the only one. You’re not clever. You’re just trying to pretend to be the only realist in the room. If you can’t contribute something useful, like our friend with the “five nines”, just don’t bother.
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@dirremoire Not true. If you have Parkinson’s Disease or cancer, those discoveries have been of significant benefit and there’s more to come. These are not headline grabbers but millions of people have benefited from it. So when one of yours gets a new treatment for a disease like that, spare a thought for the ISS. Furthermore, I know Americans think they are the only ones doing it but you’re not. It’s the International Space Station. It’s pretty hard to put a price on how much people’s lives have been improved by it.
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@dirremoire By the way, a research station on the Moon would be useless for the kind of research done in micro gravity on the ISS.
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@tonyheaton4941 "If you weren't around for the beginning of Hubble, you might not be aware of NASA's fine history of failures." Failures always attract far more attention than successes do. Look at all those other missions which have been successful, despite near-endless budget cuts because of criticism from "taxpayers". Fine history of failures indeed... Have you ever considered that space travel is both very high risk and very dangerous? Not only that but rockets like Apollo were the most sophisticated machines ever built in their time. They were expanding into an area which had never been explored before. Whole new technologies had to be invented. Have you considered the mathematics of component failures, as per our friend's earlier post? Have you considered that all these machines were built not by government but by private contractors, some of which no longer exist? Space exploration is, was and always will be a high risk activity. If you are afraid of failure you don't achieve much. Now, I don't intend to comment on this any further. It's both unedifying and pointless.
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@littleshopofelectrons4014 Not at all. Yours is a good post. I wasn’t saying you were anti government at all. I was saying that yours was a positive contribution and his was not.
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Woohoo! Great launch!
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@dirremoire Why don't you look up the research that's been done on the ISS for yourself? It's been an ongoing research lab - because science identified a long time ago that we needed a micro-gravity facility - which has not made headlines but has been quietly achieving for a couple of decades. In fact, it was supposed to have been replaced by now but it's still going. Just because you've never heard about its achievements, that doesn't mean there haven't been many, mostly in medical research.
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