>>>>>http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/557331main_iss027e036710_full.jpg
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>>>>Note that there's also 2 Russian ships docked on the right.
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>>>>What's scary is that even a small meteorite would destroy all of it in a second.
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>>>I don't think its that simple.
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>>>A small fast moving meteorite might go right through but I think the modular way the thing is put together means they could isolate that area.
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>>Maybe. But with the vacuum of space, even a pinhole could be a disaster. You would think that the folks at NASA have thought that through already.
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>Meteors and meteorites are well defended. They are not going to wipe us out. Just entering the earth's atmosphere causes most of them to burn up.

Of course, the problem with your statement is that ths space station is WELL avove th atmosphere.