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[orb]

Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

Well by looking at the images, they can also feel like this:

Skylab:

ISS:

 

[Urwumpe]

...Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

Because the ISS is inhabited without break for over 15 years now? While Skylab was only occupied for 171 days in total.

The ISS looked really like fresh from the furniture stores brochure when it was launched...

I would say, the ISS is still way more futuristic - because it is a real space station and not some attempt at it.

 

[Artlav]

Don't forget, that's how big some ISS modules are, with all the equipment removed:

I wonder how spacious would the innards of a shuttle ET feel like - they wanted to turn them into space stations too, back when NASA was cool.

 

[Urwumpe]

I wonder how spacious would the innards of a shuttle ET feel like - they wanted to turn them into space stations too, back when NASA was cool.

Well, for visualization:

 

[Andy44]

But the "Ring of ETs" station idea had them spun so you would have gravity and maybe install a couple of decks. Back when NASA was cool indeed.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

USAF brass have decided to keep the Warthog in service for the foreseeable future.

Sorry, we need some celebratory gunfire:

 

[Matias Saibene]

All explained:

Back when NASA was cool indeed.

Because Saturn V.

Indeed

Because the ISS is inhabited without break for over 15 years now? While Skylab was only occupied for 171 days in total.

The ISS looked really like fresh from the furniture stores brochure when it was launched...

I would say, the ISS is still way more futuristic - because it is a real space station and not some attempt at it.

Nice, over the years, the interior materials are worn or damaged?

 

[Urwumpe]

Nice, over the years, the interior materials are worn or damaged?

Yes, and like very often, also bought up and never bought back down. The interior is now full with various experiments or other things to store. Or small modifications possible because technology progressed while the Space Station was in space.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Striking views of our Solar System - BBC

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Aren't they still sorting through data collected from the ATM? Skylab was still a pretty good use of hardware, and if the budget held, and Columbia not way behind schedule, things could have been vastly different.

 

[Pipcard]

I had real bad taste several years ago.

My favorite font was Comic Sans, because I thought it looked cute. I once had replaced all the fonts on my computer with it. I also even enjoyed the second (Michael Bay) Transformers movie, because I only payed attention to the action scenes and could sit through all the trashy plot and dialogue. And this car (specifically the Pivo 2), I thought it had a cool and unique design, not understanding why everyone else was calling it ugly.

 

[mojoey]

Let me guess, now you like the AE86 Sprinter Trueno.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Well, for visualization:

Holy crap.

Thats big enough that Id bet there would be occasional problems with crew getting stuck in the middle in freefall, needing something (or somebody) thrown at them to get out of the middle :lol:

Why exactly did this idea of using ETs never catch on? (I know internal volume isnt everything with station modules, but it still seems like a pretty decent idea)

 

[Andy44]

Why exactly did this idea of using ETs never catch on? (I know internal volume isnt everything with station modules, but it still seems like a pretty decent idea)

Same reasons other good ideas don't catch on with NASA: lack of budget.

To be fair, using an ET as a space station is not super easy or cheap, though. Getting it into orbit isn't hard; you just burn the main engines a few extra seconds. But then the real work starts.

 

[Urwumpe]

Let me guess, now you like the AE86 Sprinter Trueno.

Damn, that looks like the car a friend had as first car after making a license. You need to learn a lot for getting a drivers license in Germany, specially today... but still he had never learned to use the choke until I sat in there and complained about the really bad engine sound that his car made. Poor little car.

 

[mojoey]

It's pretty much the Japanese Domestic Market's early Toyota Corolla. Except it was part of an anime, and now every weeaboo with even a passing interest in refined petroleum wants one.

 

[Urwumpe]

It's pretty much the Japanese Domestic Market's early Toyota Corolla. Except it was part of an anime, and now every weeaboo with even a passing interest in refined petroleum wants one.

So, its pretty much like a Reliant Robin or a AMC Pacer?

A Lancia Delta S4 was for sale a few days ago, sadly I did not have a villa spare to sell for buying it.

 

[Fabri91]

I occasionally see a "normal" first generation Lancia Delta around here that is in extremely good condition for being a 20-25 year old car. Literally looks like new.

 

[Urwumpe]

I occasionally see a "normal" first generation Lancia Delta around here that is in extremely good condition for being a 20-25 year old car. Literally looks like new.

Yeah, a Guigiaro design car, those still look like classics, like the first generation Volkswagen Golf and especially the Scirocco - there are still quite many of those around here.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

$1,300,000,000 US Powerball jackpot. :huh:

You can do a lot of good with that amount of money, but man, you could also do a lot of evil with it as well. We're getting into Carl Sagan's "beeleeons and beeleeons" sorts of numbers that people just can't wrap their heads around.

• It's 50,000 cars, each worth $26,000 apiece. If you bought cars at the rate of one a minute, you'd buy the last one in just over a month.
• I could pay the equivalent of my monthly $1000 mortgage payment...for nearly 11,000 years.
• At $100 per gram of cocaine (a high street value), this is 13 metric tons of cocaine.
• If printed out on $1 bills, each 6 inches long, and put end to end, it would go around the earth 5 times.
• At 490 $1 notes per pound, this would be a pile of paper weighing 1325 short tons, and would be a cubic stack of money 35 ft to a side.

.....or fund 1 more SLS flight for NASA, or 1 more Mars rover mission, or you can send it to The Elon and buy 20 Falcon 9 flights...... :rofl: