DDE

The curved panels looks awfully familiar. And I don't mean this:

So it is the small trunk next to the docking port after all. A non-issue, then. ...oh.

I'm slrry that I dropped the really relevant bit. It was a report from the early 2000s. The 2019 (IIRC) DoD report on climate is more conventional, and quite sane.

The Day After Tomorrow appears to be based on a garbled misreading (via The Guardian, if memory serves) of a Pentagon report on an imminent Ice Age. Said description of a report, echoing a few hype waves from a bit more than a decade prior, has been paraded around as proof climate scientists can't keep their story straight. Instead of asking what DoD's doing predicting climate, and wondering who they handpicked to do that.

"We will bury you"

The term, as officially defined in GOST R 53802 2010, also applies to the Soyuz and Energia.

In the US numbering tradition. The Soviet numbering tradition insists the four "carrots" on the Soyuz are the first stage. @JoeSchmuckatelli

DoD (DIA) projections are like fusion.

You can't just drop r/prequelmemes like that.

I was afraid of making such a sweeping statememt, but yes... anime seems self-indulgent and exaggerated. It's more than just an art-style. Which is why I was going to argue that the whole thing is a bad idea from the start, despite some precedent: Can't entrust anime with Jedi powers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q&t=4m17s You're welcome, supervillain.

Well, at least they haven't used a lightsaber helicopter. Yet. Without even bothering to watch carefully... The Force is supposed to be a subtle form of magic. Doesn't seem seem like they noticed.

Dune to release in Europe in September, and the US in October. https://ria.ru/20210817/dune-1746065983.html So, what are those spoilers worth for you?

Beware the peaceful tractor

There are two theses here. One is that it's far from certain these are ICBM fields - hence maligning that Twitter OSINT may be jumping the gun, and especially that everyone around Twitter OSINT is hyping it up. The second one refers to the "shell game" concept explored for the M-X Peacekeeper: not all of those silos may be intended to have missiles in them. Strategists value silos for their ability to attract and absorb a lot of enemy MIRVs to guarantee destruction, compared with fragile truck-mobile missiles and invulnerable SLBMs. An empty silo would do the job just as well so long as the enemy is made to believe it may be full.

A whole 75 passengers!

Manslaughter charge imminent. You'll have exactly the time to pass through every stage of doubt and regret before Earth sends back casualty reports.

I have for the large part abandoned KSP around 1.6, at least two years ago. I don't think getting the job at the time was a coincidence.

All I see is an Orel/Federatsya with a Dragon trunk.

Whoa-wee, do you seriously expect the narrative to stay consistent from day to day? My parents are convinced the counting practices change several times a month to produce the trend that is deemed necessary by local authorities at the time.

@JoeSchmuckatelli asked about the geo-political goal and not the domestic political goal. Your take isn't a bad one, although it's a foregone conclusion that this is authorized from on high. This sort of personal crusading isn't entirely unheard of within Russian government and business structures (e.g. Malofeev and Donetsk/Lugansk in April to August of 2014); they are more decentralized than many wish to admit, with Putin and the labyrinthine Administration of the President serving as an arbitrator for bureacratic fiefdoms, rather than having a hand in every little happening. Heck, it was that way even under Stalin; there are only 24 hours in a day, after all. I see no backing down whatsoever. What I see is inflammatory claims by anonymous sauces against the backdrop of conciliatory but non-contradicting statements by official sources (indeed, a narrative to reconcile the two claims NASA is pressuring Roscosmos to stay silent). Thus the salacious statement was made, but no-one can accuse Roscosmos of making it; Roscosmos can have their cake, and eat it too. It's elementary PR and is used all over the place, particularly by governments. Journalists prize this type of access to government types (especially spooks) because it guarantees catchy headlines. Anatoly Zak's reading is that it's posturing against NASA with regards to the ISS extension. His sauces tell him that NEM isn't going to the ISS and is going to become the core of the new high-latitude station. In the most extreme case, I guess, Roscosmos wants to stick NASA with the bill for Russia's maintenance of the ISS. The only geopolitical goal Russian manned (he-he) spaceflight seems to have is prestige, which is best served by Roscosmos's other white whale - the 2030 moonshot.

IRL space stations aren't exactly propellant depots, yet the difference is manifold.

A random musing at the intersection of so many topics. Whenever I built a ship (a three-seat capsule and an SM) and a space station module or a standalone Salyut in KSP, despite the station being much larger in size (usually thanks to the Mobile Lab), even if I carefully trimmed the size of the SM's propellant tanks, the ship would usually end up heavier than the space station. Why could that be? IRL, where does the additional mass of a station comes from to merit a Soyuz-Proton difference?

I'm "meh" on this assessment. Option 2 would be a low-orbit, decentralized SBIRS - and would have very little to actually do with hypersonics, since it would target ballistic missiles in the boost phase, where having an HGV or a conventional conical RV makes no difference. Thing is, Option 2 has nothing to do with space domain awareness, which explicitly concerns orbital targets. It sounds like Odyssey could be similar to Canada's Sapphire.