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Old phones are equipped with a built-in function of their location relative to the closest audio dynamics. The dynamics start buzzing when the phone is near.

(Oops. too complicated for my iq, much science. I better quit to Stupid Q&A)

No. Have seen it in LOTR. Why did they throw out Bombadil?

The more likely is that some well-known company is a paper screen with a painted Mars and a shiny Tintin rocket, behind which some serious men from absolutely another price category are managing numbers with ten-eleven zeroes to push Boeing and LockMart from the space market. And a smiling person standing in front of the screen, facing towards the audience, is an anthropomorphic personification of that, and a skilled showman making you believe that the painting is real. He owns an electric company, manufacturing accumulators and one of electrocar models, and everything one can read from the press about that company, is that its owner is a normal, typical "greedy capitalist shark", a skilled businessman never letting a cent pass by, and even (iirc) never changing it work for the covid measures. The electrocar factory descriptions are also far from the romantic space communism, it's a pure money-making enterprise, without impurities. One can remember than when SpaceX finished some stage of Falcon works, he had fired a significant part of the workers, even when currently he keeps building, so this was an act of temporary economy, not of hard financial state. So, everything we know about this person is that he never lets a billion fall from hands on Martian ground. And the easiness of spending his own billions on obviously blurry Martian projects, makes to think that he doesn't spend them, but runs the show in front of the screen, while the real investors put (tens of ?) billions on such strange purpose. And as probably there are not so much billionaires ready to spend their money on Mars, it looks like the only such billionaire can be only Mr. Budget (probably a French surname, idk) and the money are actually spent for mundane purposes. Say, to support with money a bunch of companies against a couple of others, supported by another influential group of investors. *** About Proton and other premature happiness. As it was stated not once, most part of world launches don't depend on Starship, Proton, or whatever. They are pure national activities, and it doesn't matter whose rocket is bigger. What about the Southe-East Asia and other custom customers, that part of market was anyway unavailable for Roscosmos: 1. After the known events and following sanctions even if Proton was ten times cheaper than Falcon, the NASA owners would just put it under sanctions and push from the market. 2. Even if there were no sanctions, the men behind the screen would throw another bag of money to decrease the Falcon launch price even below the cost, and anyway this part market was lost. So, the decision to dismiss Proton was absolutely practical, because Angara and Soyuz-5 use the modified engines from Energy (rocket), many times tested, being manufactured, and enough mature to use and upgrade. While Proton (an ICBM from 1960s, btw) uses engines which aren't used on other space rockets, and now on other ICBM. So, while RD-253/276 is a good engine, it's now a one-rocket actor, so as the existing part of market was anyway lost, the rocket row could be dismissed in whole. To the date there is no sense in mass production of Angara, because most of light sats and OneWeb are being launched by Soyuz, while 20 t heavy modules and PTKNP will be required by 2028 when the lunar program starts. The Angara engines are tested, usual, debugged, manufactured. The Angara fuel compartments have flown several times, they are OK. The Angara in whole (different versions) consists of the same Universal Rocket Module which has been tested. So, it makes sense to start manufacturing and using Angara whenthe lunar program (including the ROSS station) starts, by 2028. Before that it's no need in it. Actually, the Russian space program is on transfer stage of Hohmann orbit from the previous ignition (ISS building) to the next one (lunar program and ROSS). If look with attention, absolutely all parts of it are intact and many of them at least once tested, just it's too early to ignite the engines. Also, that's why I seriously believe that Rogozin is a figure not lesser than Musk. The former is an officer on the watch, keeping the cruise ship on course between seaports., and a PR person The latter is a showman for press and a PR person.

On any of the Russian space ships or station modules. They are insulated this way. If the crewed spacecrafts are spaceships, then what are the spacesubmarines or other spacemersibles?

The Shuttle was designed to return a 15 t payload (KH-11) from LEO. As a side effect of ability to bring 15 t down, it was able to deliver 30 t up (not purposedly, but as is). As a result it became so expensive that they were forced to make it the only payload lifter at all, and to consume all payload launches. As it was designed to be a heavy satellite taxi and fly up and down every several weeks with minimal servicing, it looked enough cheap to deleiver all space payload (see above). As a result, it was designed to deliver any payload matching the railroad dimenisons, up to 4.5 m wide. As the KH-11 was designed to match the same railroad dimensions, it was already matching shuttle cargo bay automatically, but now they could say that everything matching the railroad standard can be a shuttle payload, so it was expected to be a natural way to permanently deliver various manufactured cargos to space. But three obstacles killed the idyll. 1. KH-11 didn't want to come back to this guilty ground and lived for 15 years. So, there was no need in a taxi. 2. The inter-flight servicing of the shuttle itself appeared to be overexpensive itself, and this killed the two-week schedule. 3. The 30 t payload was not anything actually required, it was an overkill. So, they had to keep using it as an overexpensive cargo lifter, to perform 2-week long Spacelab trips instead of a normal orbital station. And finally, after being adapted to Mir, it gained a purpose in life - to build and supply the ISS. None of that is about Starship. Everything but lunar flights doesn't need so much now. While the lunar expeditions will start making sense in late 30s. (Just because their purpose is a geological survey for lunar industry, which will start making sense not sooner than the fusion reactors will become a thing. I.e. in 2060s-2070s.)

I believe I was covided in the beginning of this year (not only me, but some relatives also). Didn't make an antibody analysis or so, but after that flu-like illness I still feel the changed smell of some foods exactly like the covided ones describe. A pushy heavy sweet smell from any sulfur compound (mostly H2S, I guess), like any meat, eggs, onion, sulfur mineral water, wet towels. A "burnt" bitter smell from any marinade. Maybe the former was intended to make me a vegan, but the latter ensures me that this is pointless,.

It was cut before the Shuttle era, on the lunar flight cancel. They had to choose either station, or spaceplane. And the spaceplane was what they could lobby together with Pentagon (who needed something like a spaceplane to rotate the 15 t sats, and who just lost DynaSoar thanks to the same budget cut), while the heavy station anyway required something like shuttle to operate.

Any tablets affecting the creative abilities, including the drawing, should be consumed under medical control. Also they may require the awareness in the local drug regulation rules. Does the CRM-114 discriminator discriminate?

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/15/08/2021/61189ca49a79475ed552d418 Roscosmos doesn't blame the US astronaut in the Soyuz damage, and doesn't want problems in the co-operation.

Still insufficient. Just run three times around the KSC and jumped in the pool at the Kerbonaut Complex. Feeling much better. Does this thread differ from the "Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer"?

The so-called "growling" is a noise-instead-of-voice mask for absence of vocal talent.

The Geofront should be built everywhere. And Eva' mechas.

Shuttle had clear purposes: 1. Bring up and down heavy and expensive spysats for servicing, to let them work as long as possible. 2. The only major project for NASA when its funds got cut.

You should do this ~12 terrestrial years earlier.

Soyuz was ICBM in 1950s, together with Atlas and Titan I.

I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! I will never do this again! soon not soon - will

Almaz includes both OPS and TKS. It's an expendable module of Almaz turned into a cargo ship TKS-M, then into a station module. Don't they want a miracle once in their grey, ordinary life?

Zenit is cryogenic. It never was ICBM, it's a sat lifter.

I'm afraid, to "look" it should interact with electromagnetic waves, so in the best case it will look like a transparent fuzzy cloud of nothing with invisible nothing inside.

When Almaz (as Nauka) is thrusting, they are unhappy. When Almaz (#206) stays still, they are unhappy. WHEN are they happy?! This orbitalstationophobia makes me sad...

And again!

A Second Hand Hill

Idk about FL and NM, but same rockets fly from Baikonur and Plesetsk, from desert and taiga and swamps.

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