Five key findings from 15 years of the International Space Station

So to sum up... we're growing fire crystals to combat cosmic ray superbugs which destroy human bodies. That sound about right?

Providing you'll be using material from asteroids...

... delivery into the gravity well would be inexpensive as it is all downhill...

Hell of a business plan to use essentially free material, unlimited solar power to produce product, then chuck into the gravity well for delivery. Get there first and $profit$.

Then would come tourism and serious exploration as a result. Human $win$

That candle may burn the wax efficiently but I bet it lasted far less time with the flame constantly on the wax. Amazing how candles are so specifically suited to our gravity...

Money better spent

The same old zero G stuff, boring seen it, got the Teashirt. We know zero G is bad for you. Time to start testing the obvious solution and have a spinning platform. The point is not to put men in space (and the occasional woman). The point is actual doing something useful. If you do not have the budget to go anywhere, humans step out of the way and let the unmanned probes do the work. They actually deliver, but they only have a tiny fraction of this space tourism budget. More Voyager please!

Gotta spend it somewhere

Sometimes I think we're moving too fast, maybe we need all this useless research to point out one or two critical points before we launch into full scale relocation.

Upon further review of evidence, early signs point to diminishing sex drive. Surely the end of civilization as we know it....

Has there ever been a sexuality in space study even been considered, aside from the pornigraphic aspects :-}

Interplanetary contamination - Drake-like equation

Probability that Earth microbes already exist on Mars =

time in years that bacterial life has spread over the Earth x

probability of impact large enough to produce space ejecta in any year x

probable number of meteoroids produced by impact x

probability of microbes surviving heat of Earth impact x

probability of microbes surviving in space x

probability of meteoroid headed in direction of Mars x

probability initial velocity is sufficient to reach Mars orbital distance from Sun x

probability of alignment with Mars orbital plane and Mars gravity well x

probability of microbes surviving impact with Mars

All in all, quite likely then. Should we really worry about contaminating Mars?

Longest what, now?

The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space

Dude, it's way behind the Earth. Which, last I checked, is in space.

(Prolepsis: The Earth is full of human outposts, too. Which are also in space. They don't exist outside of space.)