25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

(theregister.com)

17 points | by Bender a day ago ago

3 comments

  • accrual a day ago ago

    > Humanity has grown accustomed to always having someone overhead, circling the planet every 90 minutes. When the ISS falls, that presence ends — at least for now.

    Kind of wild to think about. It's like losing a moon.

  • AndrewKemendo a day ago ago

    I wish more people, across every input from capital risk to physical testers and users, were willing to take the kind of hardcore technology risks that people were taking from 1940-1969

    The amount of insane things done under the fuck it we ball “could work or might kill us all - let’s try it” ethos was very high

    It is currently very low which is sad

    • bitbasher 18 hours ago ago

      Yes, we live in a time where we worry about offending people with the wrong pronoun or stating there’s only two genders. I think we are far away from the cojones we had in 40-60s.