I guess I see the ISS as being a big floating resort in the sky....and not much else

The problem with that argument is you can use it to justify anything. At some point you need to exercise that thing between your ears.

Einstein did his work with a few books and paper and pencil, and we haven't gotten to the bottom of that in over 100 years. NASA uses billions of dollars to launch Paper Airplanes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami_airplane_launched_from_space

If you refuse to question anything NASA does, then you'll get just what you deserve.... 10 billion dollars to burn up a bunch of Paper Airplanes.

Name "One" important science discovery from the ISS.

It's a joke. It's a zillion times cheaper to do research on earth. Putting people into space for no other reason than putting people into space is a little silly. We've proven it can be done 40 years ago, but created this stupid idea that we need to keep doing it...at tremendous expense..for pretty much no other reason than National Pride. That's why it's like the Pyramids. Making it bigger is criminally idiotic. Unfortunately, it's probably gonna take another few generations until the mankind figures this out.

Our biggest problem for the planet is our population. Not putting 5 or 6 people into orbit so they can go on speaking tours and write a book.

Settling the solar system makes about as much sense as building Condos at the bottom of the ocean under the North Pole.

In case you haven't noticed...we pretty much have the best planet and we are slowly screwing it up, with apathy and ridiculous pipe dreams like moving to Titan.

Nope..it won't. Using tax payer money to subsidize some sort of cosmic carnival ride with no public benefit is a joke. It's not the kind of jobs the world needs...unless you perhaps you think we ought to go back to building pyramids or something

AT&T wireless once took $1000 out of my checking account because they claim it was within their rights to change my "plan" without my consent from
my previous $60/month with 1500 minutes to $20/month with about $1/minute.

I used the same amount of minutes as I always had and those assholes charged me nearly $1000 for what had previously cost $60. They wouldn't refund my money. They did try to blackmail me into offering a 50% refund if I gave them an additional 2 year contract.

I cancelled my service. If I would have had time, I would have taken them to small claims court.

The lesson, is to never-ever let a company access to your checking account with automatic withdrawal. Once they get your money, there is little you can do about it. without taking them to court.