Pat Flannery a écrit :
Val Kraut wrote:

Somewhat off topic - but I would really like to see a list of the
things that have been done on the ISS to date that justify it's
existance, other that fixing toilets in weightlessness,

And what do you have against toilets moron?

You do not ****?

Making toilets work, recycling urine, and many other things
belong to the developing of a human presence in space. You
can't go to Mars or to the moon if you haven't developed a
recycling technology and water purification system. The cost
of transporting tons of water to the moon or Mars is enormous.
Without those technologies no human space travel is possible.

Note that the station has been completed only recently, construction
delayed years because of the accidents of the space shuttle.

It is now that the scientific side of the station will START.
Obviously you do not want to acknowledge that.