http://www.sv.uio.no/iss/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/disputaser/2012/van-der-wel.html

new research shows: people in welfare countries are anything but lazy. on the other hand they are much more healthy and motivated than anticipated.

of course there will always be someone scamming a system... we are humans, some of us always seem to do that.. but would you not help out 1000 people because a 1 among them is not deserving of the help? so just up yours to the 999 others?

I wonder how many times folks on the ISS bash their head on the hatch as they zip around? If it were me, they would send me up with a helmet.

I've been wanting to see the song from the Flintstones by the ethnic European performance troop that take over Freds house. "He iss Ooley and I am Sven!" Aye yi yi Vilma!

Somebody hook a brother up!

>> ^chingalera:

Who cares if it was real??! I wanna go spend some time on the ISS with this girl!!


In zero gravity, eh?

Who cares if it was real??! I wanna go spend some time on the ISS with this girl!!

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^EMPIRE:
I've always had this doubt... All those lights from the cities, shown in the video... we can only see it so bright because the camera had a big exposure time right? If a person is looking down from the ISS with the naked eye, can it really see those lights?

The video brightness is probably enhanced because of camera settings, but city lights are easily visible to the eye from orbit.


Ya, it is actually a good retort to someone who claims humans can't have that great of an effect on the earth (climate change stuff). I still don't know where to fall in that whole conversation, but stuff like this does make you realize that man has left his mark on this world, for better or worse.

>> ^EMPIRE:

I've always had this doubt... All those lights from the cities, shown in the video... we can only see it so bright because the camera had a big exposure time right? If a person is looking down from the ISS with the naked eye, can it really see those lights?


The video brightness is probably enhanced because of camera settings, but city lights are easily visible to the eye from orbit.

Getting out there is a much more worthy goal than maintaining the empire. If we (U.S.) don't get our shit together, the rest of the world will leave us here. And they should.

My favorite photo. I remember showing this to a friend. After I pointed out that the little spec on the left side, just above the rings, is Earth, he asked "that's a REAL picture?". It is disappointing to me that pictures such as this are not part of our collective conscience. Pictures like this should be on the front page of every newspaper, magazine, and blog when they are released.

Unfortunately, lacking a more expansive perspective or frame of reference, such pictures probably don't register with people nowadays like they may have 30-40 years ago. Maybe we've been so desensitized, in a way, by relatively routine Shuttle flights and countless videos of numerous, nameless somersaulting astronauts, by movies, video games, incredible CGI worlds and "artist's renderings" that it's difficult to grasp just how incredible these pictures and videos really are. I'm old enough to remember how awed I was while watching the moon landings on TV, and that feeling has never left me. It was an amazing, wonderful, historical event.

And now, here we are over forty years later, still spending trillions of dollars on war and empire while NASA has to pay Russia for rides to the ISS and beg congress for relatively miniscule amounts of money for telescopes and exploration. WTF happened?

We need to get to Mars. A Mars mission, I believe, would jolt this country back to reality about what is truly possible and worthwhile. A new perspective. We aren't doomed as a species, yet. But we can't stay here.

so can we all chip in and send him up on the next trip to the ISS? Surely it would be worth it to end the stupidity right there.

Or would the guy think it's all staged?

But yeah, I tend to think it's a troll. Vast conspiracies such as this guy asserts to require massive resources and massive coordination. Things we simply don't have the capability of.

And if you're all individually supposed to do your investigations and not trust what has been proven for a long time...what investigation led him to believe that the world is a flat disk. Are the movement of the stars in the sky a hoax too or what's his explanation for that?

*ahem* http://videosift.com/video/ISS-View-of-Lightning-Storms-Over-Africa-and-Milky-Way-Stars

Astrodupe: (floating outside, pounding on metal with oversized gloves) Open the ISS pod bay doors, Robo!

Robo: LULZ!

I read somewhere that they use a high end Nikon D3S for these images. So in a way, the ISS is an elaborate tripod.

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