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  1. "Your hand. Give it to me." Yeah, I know that act. Even one of our two outdoor strays tries to catch my hand at the first opportunity.
  2. I've stumbled upon a photo and realozed we've not mentioned Dora/Schwerer Gustav yet.
  3. In other news, the owner of the second Buran has been identified as a Dauren Musa, and he's fighting the separate attempts of Russian and Kazakh governments to cart the ship off to a museum. He's the CEO of an "RKK Baikonur", a company that seems to have done nothing but own the MIK and let the ship inside get covered in bird poop, although he insists he's been instrumental in oreventing its scrapping by... unnamed anti-Soviet authorities. Welcome to having to sort out the consequences of random privatizations. Pretty sure he wants money.
  4. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMssTSnRHU We're basically talking about two different things: a high RoF for "personal" use and a high RoF for tactical use. The idea was to ensure a tight grouping of an individual's shots, but not necessarily to generate more shots over time (althought I have seen graphics of a G-11-derived SAW). IIRC at least one SPIW gun used two bullets per cartridge to attempt the same.
  5. Fire alarm in Zvezda, 5:00 MSK https://ria.ru/20210909/kosmos-1749283501.html
  6. Careful, you're giving me more opportunities to throw quotes from PDFs I picked from Dmitry Stefanovich's Twitter feed.
  7. Meanwhile, an actual photo of Rogozin. Use for memeing with extreme prejudice.
  8. Doesn't sound accurate, though. All of the likely parties involved have conceptualized various forms of escalation control precisely so that they can keep comitting low-level military action against each other or proxies.
  9. What about cat bite fever? Definitely saw my dad get hit when his hand got badly chewed. I didn't have it even when my ankle got a similar perforation.
  10. That would be Goushko and Isayev, Korolev used to focus on gliders and had moved into pure management on the rocket projects.
  11. Someone unlocked the Ace Combat mission. Careful with your mirth. The various portable reactor projects are enjoying a renaissance with the newfound focus on the Arctic. Rosatom has funding for R&D of 400 kW land-based and 10 MW unmammed underwater reactors, as well as a live contract for a 55 MW powerplant (using icebreaker reactors, it seems). Meanwhile, the US wants to bring reactors into warzones... given the coherence of their recent exit strategies... uhm.
  12. Ah, black and red. Sounds awfully familiar.
  13. I'd suggest a different formulaion: SpaceX has Silicon Valley lineage and is partly owned by Alphabet (Google), and Silicon Valley startups are said to be heavily managed (sometimes openly through their venture funds, but usually indirectly through "infrastructure" elements like law firms) by the CIA to ensure tech is developed in a desired direction. ...it's this kind of thread.
  14. To quote myself from the other thread, OK, this is savage considering Rogozin's recent overtures.
  15. OK, this is savage. Elon Musk gives Andrei Korolev (grandson of that Korolev) a SpaceX tour. https://tass.ru/obschestvo/12307287
  16. He teams up with Iron Man. The weight of resulting litigation is sufficient to use as a planetary gravity tractor.
  17. The cat will not ask for permission. It can be a problem with hair around the backside, too. I've been drilled to do it semi-daily. AFAIK the refuse only becomes infectious after a day, which can be negated with frequent tending to the litterbox, as above.
  18. A junior colleague at work: "Your phone isn't even cracked. How is that even possible?" Me an hour later: *drops phone on hardtop pavement*
  19. @magnemoe, I think we're looking at MarsOne, not SpaceX proper. They wanted to kindly ask Elon for a 40% larger-diameter Dragon II to facilitate their one-way reality show. Remember that dead horse?
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