Fun fact: A very slightly tweaked version of this same 50-year-old design still provides communications, altitude adjustment, toilets, sleeping quarters, exercise, a experimental greenhouse, and all of the life support to the ISS.

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    No but don't you see without profit motive there won't be any motivation for anyone to create anything good, or new, or innovative.

    If the designers were smart they would make this machine so it would fail in minor ways within a year or two, so that they could also profit from ongoing repair contracts, and eventually replacement.

  • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    did you know that the US has already had a strike in space?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_controversy