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click here. RE[4]: Memory management by zima on Fri 21st Sep
2012 23:59 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Memory management" Member
since:  Well, that's not strictly what really happens...  NVM
that our stations are more or less mostly testbeds for deep
space vessels (with the convenience of, yes, being relatively
easy to reach quickly; or to evacuate...), failures are common,
as is experimenting with proper approaches. Also:  a) ISS is
really... Mir-2 (as in, the core module of ISS is practically
identical to Mir, because it was built concurrently with it, as
a backup - it even had "Мир-2" painted on it, when it was kept
in storage; the whole Russian section is generally what was
supposed to be the entirety of Mir-2, also where main computers,
engines, and such of the station are - the rest is, sort of, an
attached cargo). It wasn't so much about designing things, more
using what's at hand and with minimum of costs...  b) the "non-
Mir" part of the station w