re: Comparing the ISS to the Beijing Olympics; a blog.
Interesting...and astronomy is all about perspective!
This makes me think about other arguments I've heard about NASA's total budget only being a fraction of the what the US spends on defense. Oversimplified, I know, but if we reallocated even fractions of a percent/1-2 percent of what we spend on defense to NASA we could do some really amazing things/speed up some things.
Anyhow, Best of luck to the ISS, and the United States in Beijing!
(sometimes I pull for your folks too Raoul)
Regards, Vince