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kerbiloid

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  1. Granted. You get inside and start spinning to spin it in opposite direction. I wish for an adjustable neutron star in Kuiper belt..
  2. Back in my day the milk was pumped from cows instead of growing on palms.
  3. "Musk time". "Constellation". "Ares" And almost a decade of "coming soon" SLS, Orion, CST, LOP-G, Bigelow expandable station, and the Boca-Chica disneyland with a huge rocket tower attraction. After a flightless decade. So, you may repeat this song again and again, but the facts are that the hiccups at the Russian side are at least not bigger and much cheaper. "You don't understand, it's something different." That's USA without the ISS had a shuttlecraft and no point to go, if you forgot. Russia had its own stations, though not so much overgrown. All Russia needed was money, and this had satisfied both parties. The ISS is a museum of excessive and useless solutions, never needed for a Soviet/Russian station, like the shuttle-dependent Western modules (the self-propelled Soviet/Russian ones never needed a shuttle). Or the androgynous docking port, to attach 300 t objects (will you have any?), and always used in incomplete non-androgynous versions. Designed to let Buran be docked by a rescue ship, and never used at the Russian segment, because classic ones are enough. Or the CBM berthing port with its optimistically1.27 m wide opening, to match the androgynous tunnel on the US ships, which was never used for anything wider than the classic 0.8 m, becuase it requires disassembly of the docking mechanism. The Western modules full of 2 m holes for those ports, instead of a node module like Prichal. The ugly asymmetric thing with IDA adaptor, just to let the shuttles dock, because their cargo bay geometry was not designed for docking. Or the ugly practice of arm'ed berthing of the ships instead of docking. So, a significant part of ISS is made so only to match the hopes and design lacks of the American side, and actually was not required or should be done in other way. That's all you need to know about them to the day. So, who would laugh more. Also, the strange SpX game with assembling/disassembling rockets on the launch pad is something Russia was never doing, indeed. Oryol at least is just a mockup which takes not that much money. The Angara boosters have been tested several times in flight and worked perfectly. Much terrible idea is putting all eggs into the never-had-flown rocket, full of strange ideas from sci-fi. LOP-G is just a lesser evil, possible to be built. There is no discussion here, only a repeatitive ritual dance around any Russian problem, when the opposite side has much bigger ones of its own, just more money to patch the organization holes. Don't hope too much, the rocket tech is from 1960s, and the only real problem is fine equipment, which will also be mastered, at least to keep making the high-precision missiles. An absolute lack of understanding. Politician: ".... let's be out asap, but keep being in until the asap." Engineer: (doing routine things)
  4. https://www-rbc-ru.translate.goog/technology_and_media/27/07/2022/62e183289a79476aec5dc28f?from=newsfeed&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru Mwahahah. Somebody may cork the champagne back. Upd. https://www-rbc-ru.translate.goog/technology_and_media/27/07/2022/62e183289a79476aec5dc28f?from=from_main_6&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru
  5. How much money have you invested in them?
  6. Calling 911 to inform them that the Earth is occupied by the ET invaders. Do you think, they don't know?
  7. Do you still believe any announcement?
  8. Also, now there is an experience of providing the artificial gravity onboard, so the hotel conditions will be of luxury class.
  9. 1. It's less than a month left till the premiere of the spin-off series of the Game of Thrones, the franchise which got well-known only due to its main musical theme. 2. Also it's not much more till the LoTR prequel, whose trailer looks even worse. 3. Let's just hope that they won't get funded to make the third season of "Witcher".
  10. Calling 911 to ask what's their phone number.
  11. Minecraftizer. Makes everything cubic.
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