The thought of disposing of the ISS so soon has led to some speculative “alternative uses” for the ISS; one of the most outlandish being the conversion of the ISS into some kind of International Space Ship, retrofitting the station with rockets and sending it to the Moon and/or Mars to act as a manned mothership for planetary activities. Although this excites my science fiction imagination, this possibility seems unlikely (it would be cool though…).
Russia Wants to Build New Space Station, Extend Life of ISS to 2020 | Universe Today
– not specultive, sensible! it’s already bloody up there, do something else with it *please*
stupid, nay criminal, is spending fucking trillions of dollars only to burn the thing up..
Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist 