Total cost of for ISS so far, $100 Billion Dollars

An article in Monday's (02/22/10) St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on page 12 A, section Nation & World read: Shuttle defies forecasters for on-time night landing. Endeavour and its six astronauts returned safely Sunday, making a rare night landing to end a mission that resulted in the virtual completion of the International Space Station (ISS). The two new compartments were supplied by the European Space Agency at a cost of more than $400 million. Their addition brought the 11-year-old station to 98 percent completion. The space station, a joint project involving 16 countries, has cost around $100 billion, mostly funded by the United States.

Does anyone realize what that $100 billion could do for other projects that are a really needed?
Like saving Social Security, Medicare or helping to feed & house more than 1 million U.S. homeless people. The ISS is merely a cash cow for the 16 countries that conduct experiments in weight lessness for any companies that want to experiment at $1 million a pop. With the more than 19,000 plus satellites roaming loose without control in troposhere, don't be surprised to read or hear one morning that the ISS was destroyed by one of these out of control satellites. What do we receive in return for that $100 billion investment if this were to happen?

Satellite will keep tabs on solar storms

There was an article in Monday's St. Petersburg Times newspaper in section B, page 6 that read "Satellite will keep tabs on solar storms". A new NASA satellite could help predict powerful solar storms that cause havoc on Earth. The Solar Dynamics Observatory or SDO, is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday (February 9, 2010) with instruments designed to analyze the sun's atmoshere, its surface and even its interior. SDO's total cost is projected to be $856 million, which covers five years of operation and six years of data analysis.

Why spend $856 million into operations and data analysis when I have all that detailed information in my book? In the book I explain in detail how the sun's solar flares and winds enter through the Earth's depleted ozone layer (caused by the more than 19,000+ satellite launchings over the past thirty years). Which in turn plays havoc on the World's jet stream driving cold fronts into hot fronts and causing the massive snow, rain and ice storms that are being encountered throughout our planet everyday. NASA needs to focus on other projects like finding an alternative fuel that does not blow a large hole into the ozone layer when they pass through it.