Comments on: Space Junk, Spacewalks, and Pee Trouble: News From the ISS

By: Lisette Root

Lisette Root — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:10:09 +0000

Perhaps, in the future, a system using water hyacinths could be developed, which in addition to purifying liquids, could produce oxygen. These plants are very efficent purifiers.

By: Rabiah

Rabiah — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:17:01 +0000

I’m with Nick…same reason why I never buy a car in it’s first model year. Kudos to the astronauts and scientists who are working out all the kinks, since most of us are way too chicken to be the guinea pigs. But I’m wondering if there could be some kind of space junk-scavenger that could be sent out into various orbits to collect the junk and protect the satellites and other spacecraft. Maybe the folks at Dyson are already designing something?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:34:07 +0000

Well, gotta start somewhere. Gotta make mistakes, figure out what kind of problems we’re gonna have up there, and generation 2 or 3 (although I guess this is already the third station mankind has sent up? was skylab a hab?) will seem a whole lot less scary, and then by version 5 teen pop idols will be vacationing there and we’ll have orbital casinos and off-planet banks (since the current tax havens are getting a grilling by governments).

By: John Cassady

John Cassady — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:49:29 +0000

Way to be optimistic Al.

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:10:25 +0000

Problems developed during the first test run Sunday using urine

International Space Station Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha is a pissoir in principle and in fact. Send up a seriatim of managers to render yellow shower research more focused and better documented. Trink, trink, Brüderschaft trink! The next fubar is incremented mammoth solar panel area causing unanticipated aerodynamic drag, burning the steering gyros and causing unexpected propellant consumption to maintain altitude. May we crash ISS FUBAR into Australia now?