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kerbiloid

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  1. Whether some fuzes didn't have self-destruction on miss? They explode in air, and the ones which I'm aware of, always had this.
  2. Banned for calling the egal things ill.
  3. A mini-chute in the rear end of the kinetic projectile makes them not just effective but also looking funny on miss. A rain of mini-chutes with sticks below. Also, a fun for kids to collect them.
  4. When you imagine a python tied in loops to a log, because you are a zoological nerd.
  5. Banned for calling me People's Bane Ban.
  6. Granted. Now you need to photograph something to remember it. I wish for titles of all movies which I have watched thirty years ago in campus videocafe.
  7. Banned for naming peoples after aerodynamic parts.
  8. Apsheron stone track https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Апшеронская_каменная_колея?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp
  9. NK, when their 200 Mt test device works prematurely.
  10. Floor 3256: Now you know, WHAT was behind the orange door.
  11. Accountant software package for Linux.
  12. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Америций Google: Also do not forget the helium, xenon, etc.
  13. [snip] As history clearly shows, any treaties are concluded just to not bother each other for nothing, when the parties are interested in the same, and agree to not disturb each other on subjects treated as currently impossible or commonly undesirable to the moment. When there appears a necessity or a possibility, the treaties quickly get obsolete and annoying, and they conclude another treaty based on the status-quo. The same is about this one. Was not a space weapon, as didn't perform at least one revolution about the Earth. It wasn't to place weapons in space, it was in fact an ICBM. Actually, it was suborbital by purpose and by the flight plan, Thousands of such experiments are cheaply done on board of the ISS (actually, it's what it exists for), on expendable satellites, on board of SpaceLab (never exceeded two weeks, like it should be for a spaceplane), and in returnable satellites. Also, there is Dragon for that, no need in an expensive spaceplane with almost zero capability. It's obviously no need in a dedicated spaceplane to send another plastic box among thousand of others just to expose another aluminium-carbon-plastic sandwich. The secrecy also doesn't play role here. Nobody knows, what's inside the box, as the astronaut is just taking the box #654 from Cygnus payload, puts it outside the station on the truss #45A, and six month later does the same in reverse order. What's inside the box, who is contractor, ain't of his business, he's just hands with attached head to manage them. This doesn't work when the exposed material is emitting rays which penetrate any envelope and allow to detect them, study the composition of emitting isotopes (I did it not once in a civil lab. lol), and even picture the geometric distribution of the isotopes by moving a sensor from place to place and watching what's shaded by what looking from where. It's basics since the 1990s treaties, and the published control mechansms for nuclear seaships control measurements. It was described in public press, how a guard is moving around a nuclear cruiser and the radiation is changing. So, the only two things the ISS is absolutely not appropriate for, are: some RTG or reactor fuel (obviously no sense to study them in a spaceplane, they were used for decades and don't require that great precision), and a nuclear warhead (consists of a complicated sequence of thin isotope layers, being irradiated by various sorts of space radiation, radiating themselves, quickly changing their isotope and chemical composition say, Pu→Am, and thus requiring a long-term study to ensure that being put in LEO it won't rot or pop three years later). Viking was expendable, it was equipped with an expendable set of tools to perform the Mars mission and send data. Viking is exactly an equivalent of expendable satellite, just with landing gear. It's rather normal when its ungeared siblings are orbiting around the Earth and measuring something. And - they don't use spaceplanes, they just fly and die. How were the classified R&D being run without a spaceplane? And that's almost all space R&D at all, Are there non-classified materiel R&D performed in space at all? Hardly can't imagine them. ISS is for any kind of R&D, Just everyone is running them in his own corner.
  14. A water tank, a pump, and a pinwheel. Pump the water up into the tank. When no power, let it flow down and rotate the dynamo pinwheel. Thus you won't need lithium, but always have water.
  15. When you are trying to read into the Icelandic toponyms. And movie casts.
  16. (Visualizing the sparkles of low-caliber shells bouncing from the armored penetrating nose of a missile).
  17. Obviously, I even had listed them, lol. Two layered balls of materials, primary and secondary, inside a layered material case, that's it. The keyword is "many". You can't test many things in a 227 kg bay used seven times last twelve years. You can test only the My Precious one. For everything other there is the ISS.
  18. Banned because I'm sitting on top of the fin. There are no seats here.
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