The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station

in #discussion7 years ago (edited)



into a commercially run venture

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EXCELLENT IDEA

  • The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry.

FANTASTIC...the sooner the better.
Private industry would actually DO something with it.

A holiday inn in orbit?

Bridal Suites in FreeFall? (the imagination boggles)

Ultra-intensive care unit for those to which even gravity is a strain?
Old age home?

The possibilities are ENDLESS..

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The only issue is, the USA doesn't own it to make that decision!

who paid for it and how much?
what percentage?

Only a little more then 60% of it
To date, the International Space Station has cost as much as $160 billion, with the
United States providing the bulk of the money — nearly $100 billion (although it depends how you include the price of the space shuttle program). Russia, Europe, Canada, and Japan chipped in for the rest. It's arguably the most expensive single object ever built.

if it were a corporation and you had 60% shares...would you have a problem doing what you wanted to do?

If the US pulls OUT..then what happens?

The fact notwithstanding is that anyone that needs to get to it, needs the US to give them a ride.

defacto ownership?

The Senate has been asking and asking but kept getting double speak from NASA!!
Will be awesome to have a business plan -😀

... I'm pretty sure NASA stands for Never A Straight Answer...

NASA has been consumed by the Iron Law
it's pretty much worthless nowadays.

Old age home?

Paid for by medicare? Sign me up.

exactly...very light (zero?) gravity...easier for us old fat folks to get around..

No cane needed, no stiff neck, no sore bones, what would there be to not like. Who cares if you can't open the door, or you have a funny toilet to strap yourself to, I bet wi-fi works great up there no dead spots.

yup..what's NOT to like.
I hope it's ready when I need it.
Imagine full sensory VR..
while your meat body is in something similar to
an intensive care bed.
HIGH FIVE!
(I wrote a story about that...I'll have to dig it up and post it)

Out of this world.

An idea out of space :)

He obviously hasn't thought it through (kind of lacks the capacity, doesn't he?). Yourself, have you thought it through?

So, people are going to go through months and months of rigorous training to get in tip-top shape... To spend a fortnight at a holiday inn where they spend the whole holiday staring out of the window aching to be on planet earth?

Or maybe it's all just one big joke (his / yours)?

Give me 101 fascinating experiments to conduct (relatively basic ones) and maybe I'd be interested - not that I could afford it. But 2 weeks looking out of a porthole with a paperback in hand? I'm pretty sure most would prefer a good beach. For a lot less.

Since you have present your cause by using ad hominem, personal incredulity, appeal to emotion, and appeal to authority I rilly don't know how to respond.

I haz an idea..why don't you NOT go.

You can stay on the ground...and other's can send you emails...about the once in a lifetime opportunity that you're missing out on.

How's that sound?

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