Where to go with the ISS??

According to this essay the ISS has been sitting around making virtually no contribution to the space program for far too long. After using $156 billion to create this International Space Station, we are not using it to the effect we could be. The author of this article thinks we should use it to go somewhere and send people that would be on it to Mars or somewhere we could use to make a difference. In my opinion, this Space Station should be used for anything and everything people want it for. After paying this $156 billion for the ISS, why wouldn't we be using it constantly? How are the creators and investors of this project planning on seeing a return on all of this money, or even see the project be worth the money they spent on it? If it hasn't even made it to the moon, then it was obviously a waste of money to create in the first place. But instead of dwelling on that now, we should use it to it's maximum capability and get ahead of every other country in the space race... (if that still exists). Our country is always trying to be ahead in everything and during the Reagan era we were so determined to be the first ones to the moon, where has that drive gone and why doesn't our country have a desire to use such an expensive project we created? MAKE USE OF YOUR TOOLS!!

source for the definition of LIFE

For my third essay I will be writing about the different definitions of life. For this essay I am going to compare life in the aspect of living. "Live life to the fullest" embraces the word life in a completely different way than merely stating that a new life was brought into this world. Life can also be looked at as the mere existence of a person, even if someone is on life support they are still 'living.' The book "Information, randomness & incompleteness: papers on algorithmic information theory" talks about a mathematical definition of life, merely growing and being. This book is relevant to the part of my argument that says life is merely something in this world, nothing to do with the quality of it. Although the book was published in 1987 it still works for my argument since most of the book is mere definition.