<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>On Thursday, June 22, 2017 4:54 PM spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>...I haven't read much about a proposed ISS replacement.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>A bit of searching just finds lots of 'hand-wavy' suggestions. Maybe a</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Russian station using their module from the ISS, maybe a new Chinese</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>station...BillK</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Oh dear no way. You know what would happen: the astronauts</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>would be up there redistributing the wealth, to each according</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to his need-ing, and so forth, then pretty soon the astronauts</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>would get lazy and complacent, pretend to work and the government</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>would pretend to pay them, all that. Bad idea, bad.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Earth to Spike (in case you're not joking), the mainland Chinese don't even seem close to dedicated Marxists these days.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Also, national and international space programs are not exactly free market operations. They are all about redistributed wealth from the tax base to aerospace firms. :)</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div></body></html>