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  1. Baikonur, Soyuz-2.1a, Progress MS-26 https://t.me/space78125/2364 -But what about the Russian space nu... -Happy Valentine's day! -But Mr. President... -Happy Valentine's day!
  2. "When a man comes of age, the Sorting Hardhat assigns him to one of the four houses"
  3. I had a huge post about it, but decided to trim it. The original high-altitude BetAB-500 didn't have a booster even though WWII BetABs did. The booster reappears on the BetAB-500ShP, because it was equipped with a ballute for low-altitude deployment. There's no advantage in stated penetration.
  4. "Well, fire HARDER!" "Spin me round, baby..."
  5. You may be overthinking it. It's possible the showrunners think TMI and other production nuclear plants are directly used for nuclear reactor development.
  6. Never trust your marketers. Never trust your SMMers. Another victim to a sordid trend.
  7. This needed more struts... *shudder*
  8. Yes, but you can only use it if you haven't given up your landline. Shifting most use to mobile and the sheer quantity of spam calls has caused my family to systematically get rid of those.
  9. Quite literally With cheap energy comes cheap steel, cheap cordite, and cheap TNT. And from those, comes the most coveted commodity of the today's world: the 152 or 155 mm artillery shell...
  10. It's really a question of what you expect the robot to do. Earliest UGVs already taking tentative steps would likely be simple mobile gun turrets, i.e. minitanks. Unmanned logictics mules, including complete improvisations, are already a thing. https://t.me/Artillery_Artillery/18830 And generally there's a strong expectation for specialization, and advantages to be reaped from it. So I expect even later robotic infantry and quasi-infantry to use gun arms and be supported by auxiliaries (engineers, casualty haulers, gun crewmen) with wrist guns.
  11. Plesetsk, Soyuz-2.1v https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/12296
  12. Oh, hey, that reminds me... https://au.pcmag.com/cloud-file-storage-for-business/103634/japanese-government-is-finally-ditching-the-floppy-disk
  13. One of the earliest Russian psychometric studies included Siberian then-tribesmen. Standard IQ tests returned "dumb as a pile of rocks" but the researchers readily dismissed their own methologies because clearly the people capable of land navigation in such an environment, maintaining a culture without writing and able to count hundreds of deer at a glance were not dumb - just incapable of the abstract thought favored by the technological civilization. They couldn't grasp the idea that 1 meter at Merchant A's is the same as 1 meter at Merchant B's. A lot of current interracial grief comes from non-Westerners seeking to prove their non-inferiority by strictly Western-centric yardsticks, which is basically rigging the game against oneself, and leaves historical revisionism as the only avenue. Current anti-propaganda efforts do tend to focus on censorship, mental hygiene, and crude vaccination through dishonest, hyperbolic representation of the opposing side. However, it seems that a significant segment of the population always assumed they're too smart to be roped in by "crude propaganda", therefore anyone they agree with is not a propagandist. Ultimately, I think one of the smarter moves is defining propaganda as any information intended to sway the recipient. E.g. anti-drunk driving propaganda. This removes the stimulus to use it as a political pejorative, and the blinders that come with it.
  14. Had to order a taxi for a colleague just now. While making sure she got picked up, I browsed the map. Got a giggle when I found a railway spur leading to a "Slaughterhouse Station".
  15. I'm very skeptical of the "kids these days are just dumb" rhetoric, it keeps happening every generation. The problem, I'd say, is that they're selling memories instead of toys. Modern marketing 101 is that you sell the experience, not the product... and experience has subsumed the product.
  16. Yep. The prefered term back here. Continentals unite...
  17. One of Moscow suburban developments, dubbed La Manche for whatever reason, decided to use a plywood submarine in a hastily dug-out lake as their promotional stunt. Some years later, it's fit to cause wide eyes and dropped jaws among unaware passers-by.
  18. In 1952, 61 (74?) B-36s, two-thirds of US's intercontinental bomber fleet, were smashed up by one Texan tornado. All but two were returned to service in under five weeks after Project FIXIT. Apparently, it was the only time the Air Force disbursed a seven-figure budget based on a contract one page long.
  19. Wair until I bring in Aleksei Gastev of USSR's Central Institute of Labor, the man who coined the term "social engineering". Omnissiah is pleased with this techpriest.
  20. That's assuming the EU has the political capacity to properly follow through with such a project. Instead of, for example, writing off a hypothetical reusable Ariane halfway through the project and sending the whole thing up on Falcons. Or creating a constellation, then not using administrative leverage to forcibly create demand for their alternative (which, since it's playing catch-up with SpaceX, would be inferior), and acting all surprised when the thing goes bankrupt or becomes permanently subsidized.
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