DDE

Abort was called right after this bang: https://t.me/roscosmos_press/1961

24-hour hold command at T-2m, right after oxidizer started venting. Source says they had a pad fire safety system issue

I believe some of you like this gal. Now I see why. What a ride...

Well, he won't have much of a chance to see the truth later. *ba-dum-tss*

Angara-A5 cleared for fueling, launch expected tomorrow noon MSK.

IIRC Sagan once formulated that a purported alien would have to have features not found in any terrestrial creatures, otherwise it would likely be made up. European explorers imagined all manners of weird creatures, but they weren't prepared for what they found in Australia. Like, what the heck is that!?

The humble Tatra T3 ended up being used in Moscow for sixty eight years. (this is not a Cities: Skylines: Snowfall ad, but!)

Found some TEM Nuklon functional testing hardware now on display at VDNKh. Wide angle Also, a TEM model. Yes, it's conspicuously different from the rest of the hardware @nyrath, as per usual, I have a nuclear rocket to share.

Rosatom's hagiographic exposition at VDNKh is quite awesome for its level. Unfortunately, it ate the Onion. It has a stand about the Nuclear Volga. The Nuclear Volga was a 2015 April Fools by Popular Mechanics. And I'm hardly the first to notice the slip-ups. BTW, don't name your museum design studio Lorem Ipsum... Posted from the cafeterium over at pavilion 34 "Aviation and space exploration". Gonna moonshine as an unpaid tour guide again

I used to call simulation theory "creationism for the anti-religious". Then I learnt about gnostic esotericism and realized that this is just another permutation of it. Simulation theory proponents are ensnared by a millenia-old cult. And it can take pretty extreme forms. I know of a small but noisy group of Russian internet coaches eho think they're the player characters in a game and they promise to share the secret how to level up. And everyone else is a mindless NPC, of course.

Soyuz MS-24 landing nominal https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/13092

Meanwhile I'm seeing someone basically cry in the Detroit: Become Human forums about how profound a warning a small fluff article about the extinction of bees is.

This wasn't in the patchnotes.

I was thinking of a more weaponized model. Plus, is it possible to "squeeze" the blast into a planar burst instead of a point one?

We know from a certain movie about oil drillers that a surface nuclear blast doesn't do diddly to an incoming asteroid. What about a shaped surface or near-surface blast?

You know how media like Detroit: Become Human gets criticized that its androids are for some reason utterly humanlike and can just break the conditioning? Well, maybe they weren't completely wrong.

Amazon's artificial intelligence turns out to be Rooms Full of People. Again. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

Starlink v2 for sale in Moscow, 222k RUB for the terminal, subscription for 13.8k RUB. Make of it what you wish, looks like Elon really is having a compliance problem. https://t.me/svarog_msk/45

Ban me from there, then. I use alt-history with a point of divergence in the mid-2010s. Too many familiar and controversial faces.

Looks like the people behind the new Fallout series got the wrong idea about what the Brotherhood of Steel is. It's not that I mind the aesthetics, it's just those are misplaced aesthetics.

To further back this, only one missile has the sticker, and you definitely wouldn't use an identical paint scheme for a 'special' payload-tipped munition. Weapons designers can sometimes be pretty callous about including a passively radioactive component. Older Milan missiles have a thoroum-232-based IR tracer, for example.

Gues whose own worldbuilding 'project' includes a new, maritime trade-focused quasi-state great power arising from an anti-piracy pact in the Celebes Sea... Granted, that's north of Polynesia proper, but it gives more ground and extant population to work with.

Going by the highly scientific method of "mom and pop say so", what climate change has amounted to is having a summer and a winter with almost no transition in between.

April 2: +22⁰C April 5: +6⁰C April 8: +16⁰C General Winter making a last stand?

It's not wrong to enjoy "dumb action". Films don't have to be "high art". It's just that these days they struggle even with being that much.