1. To me they are of equal importance to the pyramids, they should be preserved, and what better place than space to preserve them?2. If the push imparted to MIR had been towards a higher orbit rather than towards de-orbiting, how high up would it have gone? - Would it maybe have reached an orbit that would remain steady for a couple of hundred years?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102394.htmlSomeone at the Post got the same idea.