DDE

Yes, and Orel will have its first flight in 2018.

Fun with compound interest: the current Russian fine against Google is 42 quintillion times more than the world's combined wealth of $477 trillion, if WaPo's numbers are to be believed

Can anyone recommend X4? How does it compare to Elite, and visa versa? I think I might have a new itch to scratch.

Keeled over last Friday with some generic cold-like infection, mostly recovered by Monday... or so I thought. About an hour of continuous talking later, I realize I've got all-out laryngitis. I soldiered on for another day, and even a day later I can soeak barely above a whisper. It's... rather novel.

A couple days ago he bought the farm. The fat had concealed an underlying catastrophic cancer. Autopsy estimates he was 12-15 years old, it's a miracle his cardiovascular system sustained such a body in the first place.

Moscow, reporting in thanks to a brief cold snap. There's enough of the snow to make cars and railings white So everything's actually quite consistent

20.6 km of foot across much of downtown Moscow. I think this was the last sunny day this autumn, so totally worth it.

Well, it's not a Power Leap but it's something https://t.me/rian_ru/264287

Today had a forecast of "mostly cloudless". Had. *grumble*

What, you mean salty fans of the High Seas Fleet? Because they must totally regret Germany not having a longer seaboard /s Basically, yes, this style of xenopatriot is pretty commonplace and universal. Orwell explained them as the consequence of backlash against jingoism that made it impossible to express chest-pounding pride over one's own country, so they do it for a different one, and either don't know better, or can afford to lie blatantly (in the case he was most concerned about, they wore the glasses pictured below). A related and oerhaps overlapping kind of people basically overlook any disadvantages of their fetish because they're also using entire countries as a rhetorical cudgel over their own pet peeves.

Not entirely true. Apparently nukes were studied for the Arleigh Burkes and assuming somewhat higher oil prices, they won out. Do not underestimate the regulatory nightmare the nuckear freighters had to go through, too. Sevmorput' was never really allowed anywhere but North Korea.

Hey, have the new ecological requirements for residual fuel oil been put in effect, or has COVID given everyone the excuse to flunk them? Last I checked, it seemed to veer towards the latter. Can't start greening the industry that still relies primarily on muck from the bottom of the refinery crackers.

Soyuz-L, an LM orbital testbed. Come on, make that horrible pun (the LK wasn't the problem with N1-L3, after all).

Baade 152, GDR's attempt at an airliner. First one crashed, second one was built with a regular undercarriage but the whole project got scrapped.

Dear forum, I nerded out so hard I got the cops called on me. I went and did it again, with almost four times the company, and I had to raise my voice a bit. So the official tour guides raised a stink. However, it was folly of them to try to outargue almost a dozen people who earn a loving through the gift of gab. We quickly determined that they didn't have a definition of an unaccredited tour guide (which they accused me of being) in their regs, and that the available definition was utterly circular (a tour guide is someone accredited to be a tour guide). Their own criteria of "sounds professionally knowledgeable" were, well, not in any regs. So I went on about von Braun and GIRD. By the time I was around Vostok, they called their rent-a-cops. Those were a bit more aggressive, but did not cough up any useful legal grounds. We explained to them at length how they couldn't even make me leave, and went on. So they did call a cop, AKS-74U over the shoulder and everything. The guy wasn't impressed, and after another round of heckling he seemed to try to save the museum any further embarrassment, and then left. The rent-a-cop tried claiming I can only continue the visit while mute, but then the guide-in-chief knocked it to just me getting an accreditation next time. (I'm grinning so hard it hurts)