The funding has been eliminated for most of the station's research
programs and the Space Shuttle program is ending in 2010. With no
money to continue, what you have is a really expensive piece of space
junk waiting to fall on somebody's head. A controlled de-orbiting of
something apparently no longer valued may not be all that bad an idea.


Not to mention the fact that it costs a friggin' fortune to get a plumber up
there to fix the godamn toilet.