My question.. what does it 'smell like' in the ISS? Being in such an environment, it certainly much be a challenge at times.

he pronounces trajectory as a sixties bond villain

"Do you expect me to increase my trajectory?"
"No, I expect you to die!"

he sounds like a russian who learned his english in ireland.

Really?? A man flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind. A man who probably speaks at least four languages with english not even being his second, and three posts just about his accent? Did I wander into youtube by mistake?

I didnt bother watching for more that 1 second. He opened his mouth, and my imagination took over:
I saw him thinking about the question, pausing, then looking defeated and simply saying "...Fuck." as the ISS started to gyrate at increasingly impossible magnitudes.

>> ^SunTzu:
flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind.


what do they actually even do up there?
i now i'm being ignorant and that they probably do a lot of great stuff but we never specifically hear about any of it
there's never been a news story like "bananas made of jam invented on ISS! astronaut Jamforbrains gets nobel for being awesome!"

>> ^SunTzu:
Really?? A man flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind. A man who probably speaks at least four languages with english not even being his second, and three posts just about his accent? Did I wander into youtube by mistake?


Fag.

>> ^SunTzu:
Really?? A man flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind. A man who probably speaks at least four languages with english not even being his second, and three posts just about his accent? Did I wander into youtube by mistake?


Nothing is fucked here, Sun Tzu. Come on, you're being very un-Sun Tzu.

>> ^shole:
>> ^SunTzu:
flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind.

what do they actually even do up there?
i now i'm being ignorant and that they probably do a lot of great stuff but we never specifically hear about any of it
there's never been a news story like "bananas made of jam invented on ISS! astronaut Jamforbrains gets nobel for being awesome!"


Rofl..

He's probably involved in various zero gravity experiments up there, acting as proxy on behalf of people on earth who come up with new questions as to what happens if you do this in zero gravity. I don't know the specific purpose of the ISS unfortunately, but i suspect your question is a bit like asking "Why are you looking through this telescope at the moon?"

And the answer is, who the hell knows what you'll find? Why did we sail around the world and discover new countries, new species of animal.. why do we still search for new species? Why do we test those species of plant and animal to see what they do, what they're made of, what properties they have? Why step outside of our front door?

Because if we didn't, we'd never have invented the wheel or mastered fire.

Imagine how much shit we've found in our own oceans that we didn't know about a few hundred years ago. Imagine what we've done with that new knowledge.

Can you possibly begin to imagine the sort of shit we might find out there in space, which is infinitely bigger than our ocean?

Imagine if you'd asked marie curie why she was messing around with a luminous material? "Did you make a banana made of this new material? Stop wasting your time!" And we've just lost the x-ray machine.

Cmon, man.. that sort of question depresses me.. of all the amazing things we've found out through stargazing, through expeditions into space (the hubble deep field picture, to me, is worth all the money on earth) the one thing that would validate such a trip, to you, is a fucking jam banana?

Rant.....

this short video which could have been taped on earth cost 1 trillion dollars. Way to go space programs.

Next time float upside down while drinking floating goblets of tang and let us at least get our money's worth.

That is a sweeet ringtone! If you want ISS ringtones you shoudl check out www.issringtones.com !

Cecil Adams' take on it.

>> ^jbaber:
Cecil Adams' take on it.


That is an incredibly small minded, limited view of things. It's virtually quoting exactly what suntzu said - if we're not getting a jam banana why are we there?

God i despair of people that argue that we SHOULDN'T expand, shouldn't reach out, shouldn't shoot, quite literally, for the fucking stars. The one thing that marks our generation to make it stand out above all other generations is our fucking apathy towards everything. Depression levels soar. We're all content to be working 40 hours a week in an officeblock as another faceless tool lining someone's pocket - who, we will never know. I feel like we insult our evolutionary forefathers with our lack of desire to try, to excell and to strive.

This cunt says "It will take 5000 years to reach other solar systems with next generation propulsion systems due to the limitations of the universe." And then he says "But never say never, we may find a way to circumvent them - but not in a rickety space bucket."

It's a self defeating idea. Don't go into space until we can conquer all of space. And then how will we learn how to conquer space? AGAIN historically, if we had said "Well i've made a boat, but it'd take me a year to sail around the world in it, so forget it, destroy the boat and don't bother with it anymore until we have a cruise liner that can carry millions of tonnes around the planet in days."

How does this douche milkshake think we get from something that is inadequate to something that exceeds all expectations? By sitting there with our thumbs up our arses? Or is it by trial, error, experimentation, understanding, observation, refinement, followed by a brilliant idea on how to improve it?

>> ^SunTzu:
Really?? A man flying around the planet at thousands of miles an hour, a man who puts his life in danger to further the knowledge of mankind. A man who probably speaks at least four languages with english not even being his second, and three posts just about his accent? Did I wander into youtube by mistake?


You're right. We should be ashamed.