thatsaverygoodpost reblogged
I feel like nobody on Tumblr knows that the international space station is being discontinued.
Did you know that? In less than a decade it will be gone
deleting the dumb hysteria to give some relevant info:
- Don't read Space news from mainstream media, thats how you get "Oumuamua was aliens!!1!one!!" trending, there are many very good reporters who specialise in this stuff, for instance Eric Berger at Ars Technica
- the ISS was not designed to last until the 2030s, to keep it up that long they are pushing the materials and construction past what it was designed for, this is not something you want to do in Space for very long. At most they can push it to 2033 really/
- Russia has threatened to pull out of the ISS for years to try and get leverage with the US, even before the invasion of Ukraine. They barely have a functioning space program left currently and almost certainly won't by 2030
- the ISS isn't the last bastion between capitalism and space, in fact billionaires can and have been buying tickets up to the ISS for decades
deleting the dumb
hysteria to give some
relevant info:
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.