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  1. When the popular science books about the elementary partice physigz were among your baby books since five.
  2. The L'Hospital rule helps me to do that, and ban those who can't.
  3. Banned for not realizing that on this page 1296 96/12=integer 8.
  4. and has radiator panels which radiate heat in space, and uses LNa as a coolant to transfer the heat from the reactor to the panels. The reactor itself is too small and dense to be an effective radiator.
  5. Voskhod has been cancelled for the sake of more robust Soyuz, which was able to maneuver, let the crew get in/out, carry a pack of missiles (7K-PPK) or a autocannon (7K-VI and probably 7K-P). The militaries were agreed for a while to keep having Voskhod in hands rather than Soyuz in clouds, but Korolyov was among the main Soyuz proponents, as it was following his idee fixe of the Martian (after the Lunar) expedition, and was compatible with his lunar plans. So, two more planted flags would play no role. Also, the next Voskhod was to carry Yuri Senkevich, the cult figure of the Soviet paraspace and paraesoteric propaganda, the Soviet TV narrator, the official top of the medical part of Korolyov's space program, who would undertake a surgery over a rabbit in zero-g. As we know now, only Yulia Peresild (I would give her two Hero Stars, for the flight, and for the b...hurt canonade which it caused) can do surgery in zero-g without the patient's bleeding. So, it would be a doubtful flag next to those ones, like the Laika death was. (Though, I would add "The Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" orbital experiment, to make happy at least the tolkienists.) A kind of oxymoron. It would fly due to better quality control in Kuznetsov bureau, having upgraded the pathetic NK-15 to the excellent NK-33, so that even Chelomei was going. to use NK-33/NK-43 in his UR-500MK kerolox Proton. Nobody but specially dedicated people in the USSR was aware of the Space Race is even happening, N-1 ever existed, and Soyuz had any relation to the Moon. The official story was that after the Luna-16 and -17 have delivered some ground and had riding across the Moon, the race is over, and "who needs it anymore?" This flying snowman was another dead end of the Soviet rocketry, like R-7, having lousy 95 t (modified) payload. Too much for daily needs, pathetically low for lunar trips (needing at least ~150 t). Both Korolyov's N-1 and R-7 were totally unupgradable due to their conical shape, handworked curvatures, lack of waffling of the internal surfaces due to the shape, weak (RD-107) or unstable (RD-111) engines. That's why immediately after the N-1 had been finally cancelled, Glushko and Yangel immediately had to start a new rocket family (Energy/Zenith) from scratch, and were still limited with the factory equipment left from the N-1. A successful flight of N-1 would be slowing any further development of alternatives at all and the orbital stations in particular. N-1 was able to deliver one, and had no reserves for upgrade. It's like all Korolyov's designs, brilliant for a barn rocketry of the GIRD times, but weird for mass engineering.
  6. Mount Duke Nukem. Because 3- d > 2+ d.
  7. Floor 4630: A dystrobar. Zero calories in every bar meal.
  8. We call it Neptune soup, as there are several sorts of hot ice in the Neptune. Waiter! Just Cola with ice. With heavy ice. With heavy water ice.
  9. Calling 911 because you aren't you.
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