Religious debate via Meme

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Surprisingly, exactly as it is in the meme. The Russian contingent have a tradition of placing a lot of orthodox paraphenalia about the ISS. 

That pic is I believe from Expedition 42. For comparison, have another.


Not as clear but you can see the religious crap really is there.

But see here is the problem. It is no different than a lucky rabbit's foot, or four leaf clover or what have you.

It certainly gets nobody closer to "proving" god. At best, it demonstrates that astronauts can be as superstitious as the next man/woman.

Thanks for that! Superstition is right. The anti-science bent shows through clearly.

TBH, it is Russian iconography, and I am fairly sure it is just a tradition from the Cosmonauts. Under the circumstances, putting your life at risk for the sake of space exploration, I'm prepared to give it a pass.

It's not much different than the tradition that Gene Krantz's wife would hand make a waistcoat for him for every mission during the Apollo program. And he would wear it for the entire duration of the mission. Or Buzz Aldrin celebrating communion on the surface of the Moon during A11. Apparently, Neil thought it was nukking futs but chose to remain silent until long after.