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Floor 4439: A trashcan for SpaceX-related petitions, with a caption "Pet. can".
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Granted. I wish for Hello'Win.
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The bankers are riding bancycles.
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Things that NASA never said at a press conference.
kerbiloid replied to FlamedSteak's topic in Forum Games!
They answered: "Stars hip, stars hop." -
One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
This info sounds excusively. -
Pchiolka/Little Bee engine malfunction test.
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Banned for the Ring War.
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Yes, can't you read the floating letters? Waiter! Where is the "space" character in this alphabet soup?
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Floor 4435: A portal to Xen.
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Astra Linux, ALT Linux, RED OS, and Rosa. https://linuxcenter-shop.translate.goog/collection/sertifitsirovano-fstek-fsb-minoborony-rossii?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp
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I believe, the second space race will finish like the first one did, with lack of purpose. Actually, it's just a season 2 of the series. Before the portable D+D or D+3He reactors get available, there is nothing to do about industry there. The Moon is not just another continent on the Earth, where you can found a base camp, then undertake sorties into the wildlands. No water, no food, only a desert of highly abrasive ash. So, you can't even run by rovers far from the base. You need rocket shuttles, and a lot of fuel to be delivered. Nice for KSP, but as viable for irl, ats Jules Verne fantasies. Thus, a big lunar base doesn't provide any additional capability to separated lunar flights, which can be more easily provided with robots, until your local industrial infrastructure allows to mine the surface for minerals. A huge lunar telescope is not a problem of near future. Intelligence or military purposes are also highly doubtful now, compared to the 1950s. So, the only real purpose of the base is to plant a flag and claim the territory is yours, but this can be easily disproven by a single nuke, or a lunar minefield, set by other race sides. Unlikely somebody will risk with WWIII (IV ?) just for eliminated lunar base. Thus, I believe that the Moon campaign will be a thing by the end of the century, when the portable fusion reactors will be available, and the posthuman civilisation will send some of its elementary biological items to the Moon and the Mars.
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Floor 4430: "Serve Room". The serves are servicing a server.
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Sailor Moon. She'll keep watching the desperate attempts of the humans.
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Pollybanned by She.
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Floor 4428: A door caption: "Severe Room. For IT staff only."
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"In winter, cats are warming the heating pipes, to let the people apartments be warm."
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What if Glushko was not imprisoned, as was thinking, for the denunciation by Korolyov? Probably, the USSR would have liquid fuel engines several years sooner. What if the GIRD was not merged with solid fuel rocket department? Probably, nothing would happen to the liquid fuel engines, again. What if Korolyov and Kostikov were not pretending the same boss position, and Kostikov not had written a denunciation on Korolyov, Langemak, and others? Probably, Kleymionov would be working on solid fuel rockets. What if Korolyov was not assigned on the ballistic rocket chief position? Probably, Yangel and Glushko would follow the proper way of hypergolic ballistic rockets, and money and time were not spent on R-9, GR-1, N-1, and useless struggle. The question is, was it actually going to. Another question, if the USA were going to spend the cost of Manhattan project on six flags nowhere and half-tonne of regolith. Or both sides were giving no freak on the TV picture, and the second Manhattan project had a serious purpose, equivalent to the first one. Kennedy just fired a implementation start pistol. The projects were started by Eisenhower before even first humans in space. An expensive demonstration needs corresponding viewers. The USSR leaders could be impressed by the military purpose achievements, not by a show for crowd. And as we can see, the lunar odyssey didn't impress them as much as Minutemans and Poseidons. Impress the taxpayers? What's the purpose of inspiration if it doesn't fruit into something material? Did the Americans begin working more for smaller salary? No. Did the Americans storm the draft office to join the army and go into jungles? No. Did it extinguish the interracial problems of that time? No. Just a minute of vanity, and the things got same. And sold plastic rockets, of course. Greedy capitalist sharks couls spend 25 bln USD without calculating a ten-some profit... I'll beter believe that it was filmed in a studio. Von Braun did not appear from nowhere. While the free world enthusiast Goddard was patenting his rockets, finally fruiting into nothing practical, an official pedant von Braun was serving evil as much as he could, exploitating to death thousands of POW, and it later fruited into the both American and Soviet space programs, what an irony. Indeed. The POTUS even doesn't have to consult about the red button pressing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football#Recent_times While in the Soviet times there was at least a Politbureau for important solutions. *** The E-1..E-5 craft families of the lunar probes were as clear as possible steps on the Moon nuking. Just step-by-step. The E-6 (the funny alien egg with four antennas), and its twice larger M-2 ancestor, were a pretty good remotely controlled fougasse. (E-6 conceptual, M-2 full-sized). It made E-4 obsolete, E-3..5 had been cancelled. Since the E-8 family had been successfully tested, E-6 became obsolete. The KT platform had twice delivered a lunokhod, a global lunar rocket, and a heavy spysat with a pair of telecameras. The sample return rocket was hardly able to reach the Earth, even it was 300 kg reserved (lunokhod ~800 kg - rocket ~500 kg). But with a standard warhead of that time it was able to reach any point of lunar surface from any othe point. It was equipped with a rather primitive set of command tools: the local vertical, the gyroscope to keep the fixed zero angle from vertical, the accelerometer with speed integrator to set off the engine, and a cross of four antennas for a beacon to find it in the sky. It was remotely operated from Earth, and could land at the opposite side of the Moon from the opponent radars, and launch from 360° unexpected direction. I.e. it could follow the predefined angle and azimuth, reach the predefined speed, and have a radioaltimeter to fuze at the predefined altitude, set up by the Earth crew. Even if it missed by a couple of kilometers, the opponent lunar base would be also not made of concrete to withstand the 30 kt. Lunokhod had 2x5 crew, restlessly piloting in 12-h shifts, and physically exhausted by the end of its run, because silly military generals were whipping the personnel, rejecting the scientists' asking to stop, look around, and do science, like they were in hurry. This forced march obviously demonstrates the ability of the crew and the vehicle of making forced march from point B (base) to point A (aim), bringing gifts to the fellows' home. As Lunokhod was designed to be an escape rover or one, or a taxi rover for two, it could probably carry about 300 kg of gifts instead of the scientific things. Well enough for a 500 kt of love and pleasure. Of course, it could be a self-propelled electric source with a solar panel for a battery of the landed rockets, if have a simple lunar base next to it. Like the Almaz-derived DLB and LK-700 with a crew of two on it. Just to replenish the gas pressure, manage the cables, etc. The perfect heavy moonsat with KT as service module, and the lunokhod's head with a steropair of fine cameras, could find any hide on the lunar surface, still not gifted, or check the gifting results. As the M-2 (Mars-3), having enough room for 100+ kg of gifts, had sucessfully landed on Mars (doesn't matter if it failed to do science), it was a ready-to-use fougasse to nuke any target on Mars or on Phobos, if required. If the lunar sample rocket would be landed on Phobos, it could nuke any point on Mars. So, the E-8 family together with Mars-3 made Proton a ready-to-use interplanetary ballistic missile. Always ready to launch due to hypergolics, widely manufactured, with all features of an ICBM by design. Since that moment, there was no need in spending money on any other anti-lunar rocket, especially as expensive as N-1. The features of heavy and global ICBM had been stolen from N-1 by R-36 orb, and thousands of UR-100N, R-36M, and R-29RM. So, the lunar project had been abandoned on the primary objective completion (prevent the ability of the opponent on building invulnerable lunar infrastructure). The secondary objective (flagplanting, spaceracing, huzzah-huzzah!) was always optional, and was not even ever declared or known to the people. Soviet space program just came into fruition after his dismission. Exactly because romantic fantasies had been scrapped for the sake of practical purpose. Most part of rocket launches and almost all rockets and crafts were developed by Yangel, Chelomei, Glushko, Salyut.
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bans science.
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Treating the Default Portrait as nothing is cheating.
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Things that NASA never said at a press conference.
kerbiloid replied to FlamedSteak's topic in Forum Games!
Canadarm 3 will be equipped with the additional extender. -
You bring it to negotiation. If things go wrong, use the standard maneuver.
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Children must know, that the planets are running around the Sun because it's written in the Configuration Files, and that the world is created by Harvester. Also, food and room are negligible. Look at the Kerbals. They don't eat, live in Mk1 for years, and don't cry. Be like them. Oops, sounds a little gnostically.
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The USSR had developed several tens types of ICBM and SLBM of all kinds, had built thousands silos. The N1 was cancelled because it was not acually needed. Immediately after its cancellation, Energy/Buran had been successfully developed and launched. Wet fantasies about autoritarism have no relation to the dull reality.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
They call it "capitalism" when they allow you to share a tiny part of their money and call it "yours".