either is if their bowel movements are still regular.

>> Will riding a robot arm get them into as much trouble as having sex with a bike?

>> call taxi(coat, door);

This sub routine does not return.

(signed)

Dom xxx

"if an astronaut were to become detached and float away approximately how far would the body travel before being consumed elsewhere?"

They'd continue in a slowly diverging orbit, until their orbit decayed through atmospheric drag (there is still a trace of atmosphere @ 300-400km, which will eventually slow things down) & they fell back to reentry. They certainly wouldn't have any sufficient energy to go 'up' (i.e. away from the earth).

"How far is a light year?"

Rather far. Nine & a half quadrillion kilometres. i.e. 9.5 petametres.

Back to the article... if NASA, ESA or Roscosmos had bothered to build a rocket which was four times as powerful as a Saturn V, then they would've lifted the entire space station in one go, without much need for slow & expensive orbital construction. If NASA thinks that it's going to manage any full-on, permanent, lunar exploration & development with anything as underpowered as a handful of Ares V rockets, then they've got another thing coming - & that thing will likely be from China. Which is why the space agencies need bigger rockets with air-breathing first stages, to cut down on fuel payload. The ISS could also do with an ion engine to be retrofitted, to keep it aloft (it needs an engine burn every once in a while, anyway) or to move it into a higher orbit. An old-fashioned liquid fuel rocket engine burn (courtesy of the shuttle orbiter or Soyuz), in this situation, is wasteful of fuel mass/payload.

"Are you really that pathetically insecure?"

Do you really have to ask the question ?

I mean, just look at what they have for an excuse of a President.