Posted by
wingnut on Saturday, September 03, 2011 3:04:14 AM
The New Nobility -- The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan, Public Affairs (Perseus Books), New York, N. Y., 2010.
(another book about Vlad Putin. this is the fifth in the CCLSC library)
The current FSB is more powerful and dangerous than the old KGB as Vlad is determined to make Russia the greatest power on Earth. So, beyond the scary stuff in this book, I have just one BIG question: Why have we been so STUPID as to essentially turn over the Space Station to them? We paid for 90% of the $85 billion to build it, we have no way to get to it now ourselves, and the Russians say they will probably let it fall and burn up in the atmosphere because they don't have the money to support it! They have decided that Space Tourism is the way to open up space development. They are right because tourism will develope space as a capitalist future. They have begun a program to build and launch some hotels in space. The Russians and the Chinese are smart enough to embrace capitalism while we are STUPID enough to embrace socialism (or islamo-facism or whatever this Democrat CRAP is). What we should do: We must build a booster system to get the Space Station to a much higher altitude, say 1,000 miles. There it will stay up for a hundred years. It is now orbiting at just over 200 miles altitude. Our Skylab orbited at over 300 miles altitude, and it came down about 5 years after we abandoned it. With the much larger size and area and lower altitude of this station, the ISS will probably come down less than 9 months after it is abandoned. We need enough politicians with more than two brain cells to understand this problem. We used to be the HEAD of all nations; we are rapidly becoming the TAIL (see Deuteronomy chapter 28 in The Bible).
-- RPC, Houston, TX