Comment Not to be unscientific but... (Score 1) 380
The ISS was pure folly to begin with. It is simply not in our nature to cooperate. We are still animals, not unlike any other on this planet. As such our greatest acheivements (and our most horrifying mistakes) have come from competition, not cooperation. Through the politics that shaped the final ISS project and (politics in general), we acheive comfortable mediocrity, nothing more.
