“The toilet is broken.”

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Got a bucket or washing up bowl? As a temporary measure just flush the toilet manually with a couple of buckets of water. Not ideal but better than nothing :)
 
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So basically, the **** hit the fan!
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The excreta hit the extractor.
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2008, what a bump.... A year or so into my first job in IT after leaving college, I think I was driving a Metro 1 litre around that time too lol. What a time :D
 
Is that a serious question? Surely you've learned by now even from the space thread the benefits to human life back on earth that the science being done on the space station and in space in general has had?

There is no aspect of space travel, exploration and habitation that doesn't result in a direct improvement to life on earth thanks to technologies and science research that make their way into our lives. We would be in a worse place if space travel never happened. More people would be dying, there'd be more disease with fewer vaccines, surgery would take longer and be more risky without space robotics technology etc etc.

NASA have an entire catalogue of direct benefits in many categories: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/index.html
 
Psycho Sonny said:
What is the actual purpose of the space station these days? Like does it actually do anything worthwhile or is it just a waste of trillions for a laugh?
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In the 1980s, the threat of an all-out nuclear war from the Cold War was very real. With what's going on with China atm (sanctions), imagine if that threat became real again? A dozen space crew could live on the ISS with a year's worth of supplies quite easily should the maniacs ever felt the need to push the red button.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
In the 1980s, the threat of an all-out nuclear war from the Cold War was very real. With what's going on with China atm (sanctions), imagine if that threat became real again? A dozen space crew could live on the ISS with a year's worth of supplies quite easily should the maniacs ever felt the need to push the red button.
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What do they do after a year? If earth has been nuked they can't stay in space forever and earth won't be habitable for a long time after.

Also as soon as they came back down to earth they would be dead as they wouldn't be able to move thanks to muscles being non existent. Unless they landed directly on top of a few months supply of tinned food and bottled water which was radiation free.

Living in space for longer than a couple of months significantly weakens your body to the point you need proper rehabilitation. You don't just come back down and walk around like you usually could.

mrk said:
Is that a serious question? Surely you've learned by now even from the space thread the benefits to human life back on earth that the science being done on the space station and in space in general has had?

There is no aspect of space travel, exploration and habitation that doesn't result in a direct improvement to life on earth thanks to technologies and science research that make their way into our lives. We would be in a worse place if space travel never happened. More people would be dying, there'd be more disease with fewer vaccines, surgery would take longer and be more risky without space robotics technology etc etc.

NASA have an entire catalogue of direct benefits in many categories: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/index.html
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NASA and ISS are two different things NASA is one of the 5 space agencies involved in the ISS. I was asking is it still that beneficial today as it was before? NASA will have plenty of their own projects outwith the space station that they make technological gains from.

Like what's the last thing the ISS did and when that greatly benefited the human race?

It's a genuine question as it's a subject I've never bothered to look into as I see it as a pointless waste of time personally. Space is called space for a reason. It's just endless space.

The fact Elon musk is now supposedly advancing it using private funding suggests that the space station has had its day.
 
Doesn't matter if NASA is just one space org onboard with ISS, they contribute a huge amount to experimental science under the NASA brand which trickles down to Earth. The most immediate stuff going on won't be realised on Earth for some years yet just like the case has always been. The trickle down effect isn't always immediate but ISS has always been a hub for research to take place that cannot be done on earth. It is not money wasted by any stretch of the imagination and to say that the money could be used elsewhere is quite strange because the people funding these projects only have space research in mind hence why they greenlight the funding in the first place.

Elon Musk is privately funding stuff because he is a private individual and can do what he wants without the trivial aspects of an organisation having to greenlight everything, sign off for budgets and get collective bodies around the world onboard with projects. That's how private businesses work. NASA and the efforts on the ISS will result in direct downstream benefits to Earth as a whole whereas Elon's business will benefit his business interests only. Thai is the difference between privatised and not.

The long term plan for the ISS is to be converted into a public museum of sorts so that civilian visitors can visit in the future. A new collaborative space station is in the works to replace it. In between all that, various companies around the world will be expanding ISS and ISS will also remain as an jump-point hub to connect to other planned outposts in low earth orbit in the future.

Again, money not wasted...

You can find out everything you have asked with a quick google, I had read about the above in the past but a 5 minute google confirmed that what's said above is still relevant.
 
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