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Trillions of dollars...
I FUCKING WISH trillions... Jesus...
It's only been my entire damn life that I hear "NASA budget cut, NASA budget cut, this program, that program, cut..." Hell they're cutting one of the only x-ray telescope programs we have at all...
Hmm, hectare-sized water tank, a production team to create a continuous, live video feed that matches what's happening on Earth, immense amount of effort at rigging (and rotoscoping) to simulate low-gravity, all the effort to keep the conspiracy quiet? If I were NASA, I think I would take a bunch of shortcuts, and locate the fake ISS set in Earth orbit. It'd be a lot easier.
Just like when Kubrick faked the moon landing. Such a perfectionist, insisted on filming on location.
It would be extremely cool to have the the real iss a museum if it's at all possible
Would definitely be cheaper to just build a 1:1 recreation on earth and skip the logistical nightmare of safely deorbiting something so big.
I'd be fine with a VR recreation.
there is a "mission: iss" on quest
Cool.
The biggest roadblock for that happening is the gigantic expense it would require to send astronauts in rockets up to dismantle the entire station and then return the pieces back down using methods that reduce damage to the pieces as much as possible. Offhand guess would be $500 billion.
Just ship the tourists up to the ISS. Probably cheaper
NASA could AirBnB it and finance space exploration that way. Genius.
The biggest roadblock would be agreeing who pays for it and where it will be located.
Earth, and Earth.
It really would! I've seen countless videos of the ISS but to actually step inside it is something else
Ok, in a few years, charter a boat out to the deorbit impact site, out in the Pacific, and you just try and catch whats left of the ISS after burning through the atmosphere at...what, Mach 30, something like that?
Circa 3025 AD. Tourists arrive in low Earth orbit and spend a day on an ISS replica. Next they take a replica space shuttle to the ground, where they transfer to a DC-3 prop plane. That lands them at a train station, where they board a steam powered train. That carries them to a station where they get on a stage coach. The last ride is a canoe down the Colorado river.
NGL, that sounds like a great vacation
No different than a crazy person handling you a letter about how the government abducted them to give to aliens for chemtrail research. You start by not trying to have a rational discussion with the irrational. You cannot reason someone out of a position they had to reject reason multiple times to get themselves to.
At first I thought "into a museum? How you gonna get it down in one piece?", but then reading on ...
It's funny how he thinks though
Poor guy.