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It doesn't. The primary source is compressive heating of the air in front of the object. So, to answer your question, he would.

He kept stepping on a rake, and it kept not hitting him SMH.

He bungled his calculations. This was a major criticism of the time, but he lucked out and found Hispaniola where he expected Nippon, instead of being eaten by his own starving crew.

https://t.me/fotozak/6548 A helicopter refueling while carrying an external load...

I can fetch you a Trotsky quote about how slave labor is less effective under capitalism, but that is "not necessarily true" for socialism, and taking that as an axiom is backwards thinking. The stuff millenarianism does to people's brains...

Russia vetoes UNSC resolution against placement of nuclear weapons in space after a Russo-Chinese amendment adding a call against conventional weapons in space fails in a closely-tied vote https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148951

In my experience, that's usually the opening salvo, because... ...because too much of Internet "debating" is a spectator sport that involves preaching to the converted and throwing out "sick burns".

...which of course is undermined by the Jedi being pointedly apolitical to the point of apathy, which the old fluff explored in-depth. Your post kind of reminds me of the in-universe early Imperial propaganda claiming the younglings were mind-controlling the local populace, and so Vader and the 501st did nothing wrong. While I won't entirely disagree, this is a case where a sci-fi cliche muddles our perception. Sci-fi doesn't generally know how to do non-sentient droids. Accordingly, it's not clear how sentient the droids are - and then we wonder into the real-life debate of what sentience is and how AIs can passably "fake" it by simply responding in-line with out expectations. All tha before the question whether sentience is even the primary factor to consider when asking whether droids deserve rights. Also, when SW did finally have a crack at the droid rights problem, it produced a character so obnoxious I signed up with the Butlerian Jihad.

Sci-fi isn't to blame, it's a reflection of the thinking applied to the real world, especially by third-party well-wishers.

Korolev's brainstorming for the name "Vostok" Everything up to and including Volna, Vulkan, Veter (wind), Vykhod (escape), Voskhozdeniye, Vzlyot (ascent) and Vozrozhdeniye (renaissance). Love how Vostok was still his first idea, followed immediately by Voskhod

The first Salyut station had a fairing stenciled "Zarya". TASS didn't care, so that's how the station is known now.

I think the missing link is the unexpected commercial success and the Shuttle woes. Basically, at roughly the time you'd have expected a resurgence of government space spending, instead the mamy-named Russian space industry first began to scoop up commercial space launches, and then it got the biggest one of all - the Soyuz seat-sharing agreement with NASA. I think at this point a dubious decision was made to wean it off into a commercial venture, despite little evidence that it would be sustainable, which was promptly exemplified in the pre-Rogozin disaster spree. Premature attempts to monetize something are not an uncommon problem, and politically it's rather difficult to fish not for a one-time bailout, but a near-permanent garden hose of money.

That was one of the proposals, yes. Ah, yes, I found the IRL Helldiver pod.

A person far braver than I am.

It keeps coming up and coming up. I know several sides in WWII had this sort of kit. This was the latest known attempt to bring it back: