{"id":2602,"date":"2009-10-10T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2009-10-10T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:18:50","slug":"international-space-station-may-be-dumped-into-the-ocean-by-u-s-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/10\/10\/international-space-station-may-be-dumped-into-the-ocean-by-u-s-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"International Space Station May Be Dumped Into the Ocean by U.S. Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom&amp;vid=\/video\/tech\/2009\/10\/09\/zarrella.space.station.future.cnn\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>Embedded video from &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video&#8221;&amp;amp;amp;gt;CNN Video&amp;amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The International Space Station which has taken 11 years and $44 billion to finally bring to a state of completion may be scuttled when its funding runs out in 2015.  How about that?  One of the greatest achievements in human history &#8211; greater than the building of the pyramids &#8211; may be dumped into the ocean before it can perform its intended mission which is scientific research and experimentation outside of the Earth&#8217;s gravity.<\/p>\n<p>So we elect a man to the presidency twice over who is on the intellectual level of a monkey and give him $80 billion every few months so that he can arbitrarily slaughter the boys and girls of the people who elected him by sending them into a needless Iraqi hell on earth without adequate protection.  But we can&#8217;t keep the greatest machine ever built by a human hand orbiting the planet?  Someone simply must be kidding.  I refuse to accept this as a possibility. There&#8217;s death money and there&#8217;s life money.\u00a0 Iraq war money is death money and sets human civilization back.\u00a0 The space station money is life money and it moves civilization forward.\u00a0 This is a simple equation that almost anyone can figure out.\u00a0 Except of course the drooling moron retired in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embedded video from &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video&#8221;&amp;amp;amp;gt;CNN Video&amp;amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;amp;gt; The International Space Station which has taken 11 years and $44 billion to finally bring to a state of completion may be scuttled when its funding runs out in 2015. How about that? One of the greatest achievements in human history &#8211; greater than the building of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,319],"tags":[587,184],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-congress","tag-nasa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}