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<font color="yellow">"The absolute truth is that we the United States have promised our partners in the ISS that we would finish what we do to core completion."</font><br /><br />Nowhere in my post did I state that we should not complete the ISS. I merely stated that your arguments for why the ISS will be useful were largely invalid. Personally, I think that I share a similar view of the ISS as Griffin (who has stated that nothing the ISS can do will justify its price tag). Namely, I consider core completion to be a chore that we <b>must</b> do. I do not, however, consider it something that we <b>want</b> to do.<br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="yellow">"So lets play it YOUR way, what do we do with this billions of dollars worth of equipment?"</font><br /><br />As I said, I did not propose a <b>way</b> -- I merely pointed out the flaws in your pro-ISS statements.<br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="yellow">"I am perfectly at ease with such attacks as yours on my posts, it doesn't bother me at least. But when someone calls your posts drivel, that someone is a person that you can safely ignore! "</font><br /><br />Apparently you did so successfully. So far you haven't even managed to provide a counterargument for anything I actually said in my post.<br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="yellow">"I will however, just for the sheer fun of it answer your first paragraph (and as it happens several other points as well). It is possible that purpose built space stations with capable laboratories could indeed be built in the time frame put forth. If IS however, quite improbable, due to just several things! "</font><br /><br />Lesse -- you said:<br /><br /><font color="orange">"ISS is the laboratory that will enable us to learn how to take the raw materials of such bodies as the moon and convert them to completed infrastructure products to be used in space! For at least the next 10 to 20 years there is no other such laboratory available to do this." <</safety_wrapper></font>