Comments on: Astronaut on ISS uses interplanetary Internet to control robot in Germany

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:46:33 +0000

Ok.But someone said it wasn’t the science doing the helping.But you’re right.

By: asiwel

asiwel — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:35:50 +0000

Give us a break on this stuff here! Science pretty much helps anybody who pays attention to it help themselves.

By: asiwel

asiwel — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:29:53 +0000

Right, Waldos … a favorit story, but here I was thinking more like Hal Clement and “Mission of Gravity” and the Mesklin centipedes!

By: FredB

FredB — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:33:52 +0000

Great. They have caught up to Robert A. Heinlein’s 1942 Waldo F. Jones Synchronous Reduplicating Pantograph, aka “Waldo”, robot hands remotely operated from space.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:30:42 +0000

Ps: “We are. Not everyone in America mind you.. just the parts that matter.”

I presume you work for the government then, or why do you matter?Or don’t you?

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:27:19 +0000

@Luz: Which parts matter?Can’t be education.

By: Luzarius

Luzarius — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:23:38 +0000

“presuming America is more developed”

We are. Not everyone in America mind you.. just the parts that matter.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:20:38 +0000

Ps: Who is the international community? Can’t be the whole of Africa, China, Russia, and parts of the middle East.

I think you talked about the West.But they’re not the whole (as implied), there is a bigger rest.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:18:50 +0000

@Rene: No.He just said this is an example for Americas commitment to help all nations (Iran is a nation) develop (presuming America is more developed- else they’d be presumptious^^).

If they want to help all nations develop, why did they block China from all space related projects through threatening their withdrawl (and the withdrawl of their money) after China wanted to join the West in their “quest for outer space”?

China asked for help, but was refused.

By: René Milan

René Milan — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:06:20 +0000

Did iran ask for help ? Once they get rid of their mullahs and rejoin the international community they will find that international science projects help them (actually they already do in their insane pursuit of nukes).
And while you have a very valid point about creationism, Bri did not say that europe is less developed than the u.s.a.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:45:04 +0000

@B:
You must be kidding.How do you help Iran!?

And btw: I don’t consider Europe to be less developed than the USA.We don’t teach creationism at school.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:43:54 +0000

This will teleoperate robots on the moon when NASA puts a station up at Lagrange Point 2.

By: Bri

Bri — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:22:55 +0000

Nice to see the space station living up to it’s mission of international cooperation. It’s another example of Americas commitment to fostering the development of all the nations of the world.