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Heard about it https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/5152013?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru Not that he was kicking the noobs from WoT, but his bots were too good, so the noobs got into depression and were leaving the game.

This didn't affect the military stuff (Peacekeepers and Midgetmans, Tridents I and II, Pershing 2, ground-based BGM-109 are from the 70s). The lunar flights just for flag planting wasn't essential in 1960s, too. And the v8 cars and oceanic ships were not less actual. In late 1960s-early 1970s (exactly the financial worldwide crysis preceding the 1973 world energetical crysis) they cancelled a bunch of space projects: Dynasoar, MOL, Orion, and Saturn/Apollo look not outstanding here. Orion was cancelled due to the nuke prohibition (at least, officially). MOL was cancelled because better electronics allowed to exchange with ground with images in real time, so the crew got useless like the films and film capsules, and they replaced the whole KH-10, including MOL, with better and crewless KH-11. Military's Dynasoar was cancelled for financial (probably cause by its niobium shield cost, lol) reasons but immediately before starting another spaceplane, under the common NASA and military control. These two also took the USAF Titan rockets from the crewed flights, so maybe that was some military's competitors' win. (As both the KH-11 compatible Shuttle and KH-11 were first of all recons, probably of those who do the reconning, like now the ULA is competed by somebody unknown and definitely not friendly to the ICBM solid booster brothership, but requiring a lot of launches in peace time and preferrably a network of sats around the Earth.) And this anyway unlikely affected the secrecy and archives, so the ability to just build Saturn V after blowing dust from the papers. I would expect that once the focus shifted from the space, and the tech got unneeded in the foreseeable then-future, all this would be archived and stored. But what looks more critical for that time, nobody probably thought that in 2000s they will have no rocket comparable to Saturn-V, so it was more important to prevent anyone's else abilities to reproduce it).

I don't doubt that Kennedy gave it a launch kick, but the technical part of plan was officially put on the table by Eisenhower, thus Kennedy just had to choose if start it.

Granted. I was wishing that my explanation of the magic is clear. I rewish the previous wish.

Granted. The so-called "magic" is just a not enough understood subjective resolution of the quantum indeterminacy in the multiverse interpretation of the universe. I wish, that's clear.

They will be endlessly discussing the prevention of the Mars pollution, but once they get able to really pollute Mars, they will immediately give it a new atmosphere

It was not a practical replacement, but it was started because the Lunex appeared to be hardly implementable to the date, so they needed an experimental ship to work out the lunar flights at all. Advanced - compared to the Mercury. Very simplified - compared to the original lunar plans of late 1950s. 7K appeared much later, after Voskhods, as a usage of the cancelled orbital base (Soyuz or Zvezda) supply ship Sever. DOS was a pure improvisation based on expropriated Almaz instances, after the original DOS versions failed before being engineered. The Apollo program was signed by Eisenhower, before Kennedy became the president. As well, the F-1 engine was based on the earlier E-1 one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program Kennedy just gave the green light to the existing projects because they were already existing. The Apollo program wasn't. The project from which the Apollo studies had started, was. These proposals were officially in development since 1958 (Horizon Project), and unlikely NASA officers would ever suggest something before getting sure that the idea is already accepted or even running. Because the officials are people without fantasy but always strongly armored with paperwork plates, otherwise nobody would assign them to manage billions of governmental USD. The NASA proposals were just a pale shadow of what was officially expected originally. The Horizon base was officially requiring hundrdeds of Saturn family launches, years before NASA suggested anything. Exactly for this reason they first tried something smaller, Apollo. 1. US entered the Vietnam war in 1963, while Mercury was launched two years earlier, and the lunar program has started in 1958. 2. During the Vietnam war US have replaced Atlas with Titan I, then Titan I with Titan II and Minuteman. And several generations of Nike. So, if/as the lunar race purpose was to prevent the Russians from building their lunar fortress first, the Vietnam war would play no role at all, because the military value is the ability of a sudden or revenge rocket strike from the Moon back, compared to which the Indochina politics was meaning nothing. Dynasoar was a USAF pet project, and it was another purpose: a suborbital bomber + orbital recon for that bomber. MOL was an attempt to save the Gemini project by joining at least anything running, and to save money required for the KH-10 "Dorian" 2-m spy telescope with lifespan of 2 months and (as usually) 90% of films full of shots of clouds. So, MOL was an attempt to 1. Make the KH-10 clever and shoot only clear land and exact targets. 2. Have a USAF duty recon to be launched at any time in any direction and stay in LEO while the hot phase of the nuclear war is running. 3. Make somebody adopt poor Gemini. Nobody but scientists needed the lunar stones for that price. And nobody cares what they need for that price. Definitely not 25 G of old bucks and definitely not (quoting you) during the Vietnam War, lol. Humans with money not so much. This exploration couldn't bring any profit. All slogans about the new materials and so on get broken by one simple question: was it needed to fly to the Moon to develop these materials and technologies and start selling them? E-8 was a continuation of the previous E-#, and started in 1960, before the humans started flying, and it was a part of the Red Scare which forced to start running the US lunar program, as it looks like. Because what if the Russians have built a fortress first. Congress alrerady had given funding for the four Apollos later utilized in LEO. It was not give the further funding. They were cancelled as lunar flights. But the hardware was used in LEO flights, with smaller Saturns. Easily. A lot of projects stop being funded. The Soviets didn't declare their efforts to reach the Moon, and kept them in secret till late 1980s, so nobody in the world just would know if they stop trying. IRL they just declared that the probes have brought the ground, and the money are better used for the orbital station, so the Americans were looking winners in a noone's else race. Mercury and Vostok are not connected. The former is a rocket head with a man inside, the latter is a standard high-altitude balloon cabin adapted to space flight. They didn't jump to Apollo, they needed a smaller test ship before building Apollo, Later it evolved into Mercury II aka Gemini for more complex tests. Glushko preferences played no role here. He was assigned by government, and followed the plans of the government. The government decided to cancel N-1 right before the test of its improved version. If he was ordered to continue N-1, he would continue N-1. But he wasn't, so with pleasure cancelled it and destroyed all ttraces. But his pleasure doesn't play a role. He immediately started his own lunar project, LEK, much greater than the Korolev's one. Energy is a simplified rocket from his lunar project after instead of the Moon he was ordered to build a shuttle. The space stations were based on the Chelomei's lunar project, UR-500 as Proton and LK-1 as a fly-by ship (which in turn was derived from the earlier orbital recon/inspector/interceptor family of projects). The station hull is made of the ICBM (including Proton) fuel tanks, and it was a plan of a lunar Almaz with return ship in the nose. And they have focused on the orbital stations after the Apollo reborn was cancelled by Congress, three years since the last Apollo return from the Moon. Then what's the problem to reproduce Saturn-V / F-1, forget the Apollo. It's tested and anyway not worse than SLS. Who cares if the tech is old, if the new tech is not better and still can't fly? Battleships are built in 1940s, and who cares? The common use documentation survived, we can download it from internet, but what about the manufacturing documentation? That one which you give to the workers with exact list of details and their blueprints, with technological notices? What are the mystic technologies of 1960s which can't be reproduced in 2000s? Any other known government-funded 25 bln USD megarockets whose docs were not saved by the manufacturers? Especially in the Country of Lawyers where they refer to the Queen Victoria times precedents? (Energy is not an example, there were no known social events in USA). Nobody will ever need P-51, as it was just one of tens of other such planes. Just build another piston plane. The steam locomotives are rather simple and rather alive. If it's required, the locomotives can be manufactured very quickly and easily. (Let alone the countless stored ones). I would remind that SLS is being developed either, and the government has already paid for Saturn. And Saturn had better energetic characteristics. The Starship (more accurate - SuperHeavy) is currently the same as N-1. Once it flies as planned, it won't be. 1. All these contractors are paid by government for that, The budget funding is what can take your soul out, sell it for nothing, and still let you stay happy that you didn't get into problems about a (let it be dollar) not proven with a signed papersheet. Of course, any budget contractor would try to keep the docs in the dry and safe place of the archive in case if twenty years later the audition wants to check it because ten years later it had appeared that something went wrong in your product. 2. They sign all their docs and give their copies to the opposite contract side, i.e. to the government official (who in turn wants a paper that he hasn't signed something wrong). So, backup copies of any significant part of the project would stay in different places. That's why I say "it looks like" everywhere. (In addition to the obvious fact that I have no care at all about the American taxes distribution, lol.) For Redstone or Jupiter, but not for Saturn V and Apollo. I see this explanation as the only counter-hypothesis to the lunar conspiracy which tells that US never flied to the Moon, so the scrapped the mockups. Also if you read the Project Horizon docs (still available somewhere in internet, but removed about two years ago from the wiki links with the whole site), they are anything but Zubrin-like fantasy.

While T-14 Armata may look not so much Kerbal, but actually it is, and this makes me enjoy it kerbally. 1. A crewless turret, like in BDArmory. No need in imagining a gunner inside. 2. A sensor mini-turret on top, like in some BDArmory turrets. 3. All crew inside the signle cabin. No need in moving them or have two different interiors for the hull and the turret. 4a. A toilet in the cabin. So, they can sit there endlessly, like the Kerbals do. 4b. But they still appreciate Snacks. 5. A flying drone can be launched from it. As well, we can do this in KSP. 6. The Weapon Manager placement is unknown but probably on the turret.

The Vorlons come in. Vorlon Babylon

The metastable metallic hydrogen is banned for flaming abilities.

Granted. The Dog of Baskerville wins. I wish Nessi is still alive. Haven't heard about her for a couple of decades.

Based on his nickname, "Mr Bond" should be a financier, but something went wrong in his career making him to be a hired thief.

And zero-g cockroach races.. (Just in case: no need to let them run along a track. Put them in the center of a 2d or 3d sphere (the 2d one is also called "circle") and bet which one crosses the sphere first.) *** Also the classic bear training. 1. A dance, following the hand with a thing smelling with honey. In zero-g can be a 3d dance. 2. In zero-g even a bear theoretically can jump throw the ring of fire, but the problem is that in zero-g the fire doesn't look like a normal fire. *** The snake dance also could be practiced, but the training methodics is as brilliantly simplistic as brutal, so probably no. Also the snakes are expendable, so they need a lot of them, but an inflatable serpentarium is unlikely possible as they can pierce it with bites. *** And this, btw rises a question about the horse races. On the one hand, the orbital horse racing would be spectacular. On the other hand, they can't run in zero-g. So, while after the "cargo-rated" and "human-rated" space crafts there should be the "cat-rated", with artificial gravity, even after the "cat-rated" there should be "horse-rated", with enforced structure able to carry a pack of running horses. As a normal horse track should be at least 1 600 m long, and the artificial gravity means the whole station rotation, the station hull radius should be ~250 m, and this is at once the normal radius for a human artificial gravity. So, the "horse-rated" station is actually the normal space station size, and any station with gravity (and an interstellar ship as well) should have a toroidal hippodrome, which is also a stadium. This automatically means a circular rowing channel aside.

1. Great minds think alike. 2. Reduces twice the required amount of 3d models for the KSP modders.

The L2 point. 1959: The 2nd fleet of the Deep Space Bombardment Forces should be drifting at L2 for 25 years, rotating the crew every 6 months. The Orion battleships with 200 W-56 x 1.5 Mt each. 2021. A 6 t telescope is finally launched to L2 after many year delays to work there for (2 years?), to everyone's amusement. The space era. Expectations... Reality...

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Until the dwarves get too deep. Then it becomes Balrog's.

Anyway not Taran, 200 UR-100 x 10 Mt

In my schoolhood I was reading in books that Pluto is a planet several times more massive than Earth. It has gotten degraded so much since then...

It can run over the Titan and Pluto snow. Why not send Tatooin to Alderaan?

https://www-interfax-ru.translate.goog/russia/813298?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru Roscosmos has tested the modified hydrolox engine RD-0146D1 for the KVTK upper stage for heavy Angara.

Expanse Why do they not switch light to red during the battles?

The Book of Boba Fett, s01e01. Looks starwarish, desert and so on. Boba is Hitman.

We can start counting post till the room biojet race suggestion. (Don't say that it's mine, I just know the space forum audience well.)