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They ordered a simulation of the impact at 60 m/s at a 10-degree angle from vertical and it returned a 3.5-5.5 m crater and a bounce of over 99 m. https://multiphysics.ru/stati/proekty/modelirovanie-padeniia-spuskaemogo-apparata-mars-6.htm And that article finally yielded a link to this HiRise strip: https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_003894_1560 Doing a quick search for similarly overtly labelled images - there's a dozen - revealed a 2018 one that seems particularly certain in its titling https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_056982_1560 Also, this guy seems to have done the legwork to identify the exact spot http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=743e5ba2d3deef65dad1ef842b08b628&showtopic=8399&view=findpost&p=240470 P.S. The search project involved the poor guys from Dauria Aerospace...

ZelenyiKot, the person behind the original Mars-3 search, had already petitioned and received likely landing area shots from HiRise a decade ago - see closer to bottom of the article: https://habr.com/ru/articles/215433 Alternative link: https://zelenyikot.livejournal.com/59495.html?view=11136871 In 2018, they identified a likely crater: https://ria.ru/20180720/1524981234.html I haven't been able to dig up the coordinates just yet, but they shouldn't be too difficult to acquire - the claimant is Anton Gromov, Russia's Musketeer-in-chief, Russian SpaceX livestream commenter and the ballistician/astrogator for Bureau 1440.

IDK, I'd go with a proper brick can, with a maybe 4x4 footprint for the pressurized enclosure. Those mini-minis didn't go too well with my fat fingers.

"Q, the idea of cutting Bosch tyres is great and all, but can you please pick a different coin?"

Two things right off the bat. One, what kind of exploration are we talking about? What subset of tasks? "Hulk smash"? Because then we can reduce it to the well-known topic of forklift-replacing hauler exoskeltons, and here we have the iron lad argument of "well, they are looking at this IRL". The problem I see is that realistic space exploration missions are unlikely to involve too much heavy haulage. The second thing is that the design presented above, if adequately changed, it can become a more sophisticated version of the Man in the Can. The integrity of a conventional spacesuit over long - really long - EVA walks is rather concerning, and it would be great if separate envelopes for the pilot's limbs were not necessary. Additionally, it would be a good feature if the environment is full of beta or gamma-emitting rocks. You'd be immune to the former and drastically less vulnerable to the latter.

And so the smart people get a hunch and look up how long the day is on Mercury... But hey, it beats other strange Headhunter.ru offers, like Office Administrator/Office Fairy, Waiter/Rock-Paper-Scissors Expert ("Due to our ongoing 'beat the waiter in rock-paper-scissors and recieve a free course' we urgently need a waiter capable of winning at least 70% of the time"), the dozens of thinly veiled drug courier ads, or the Fury Room Administrator at "Break Me Totally".

"We have Rammtiger (P) at home"... It's all the more ironic that the Rammtiger was a product of Stalingrad, and the Tsar-Cages/B****mobiles have thus far been spotted exclusively with the 5th Brigade of the 8th Guards Army. Yes, Chuikov's 62n/8th Guards Stalingrad Army. Additionally, some of them retain the standard-issue ECM: Then there's the opposite extreme... "I am all the Jedi jammers"

I'm surprised this thing kept on trucking for a month after this much damage. I imagine the occasional flashes were the individual LEDs burning out. Both are bad cases of overheating due to a non-LED light fixture with rubbish cooling, but in the bottom one some core component gave up first and it just died with very little melt.

Now I know why they were flashing

To be fair, the eastern route was already taken - not sure if formally - by the Portuguese. Similarly, many years later the English would look for a northern route to India and China through the Siberian rivers.

It doesn't. The primary source is compressive heating of the air in front of the object. So, to answer your question, he would.

He kept stepping on a rake, and it kept not hitting him SMH.

He bungled his calculations. This was a major criticism of the time, but he lucked out and found Hispaniola where he expected Nippon, instead of being eaten by his own starving crew.

https://t.me/fotozak/6548 A helicopter refueling while carrying an external load...

I can fetch you a Trotsky quote about how slave labor is less effective under capitalism, but that is "not necessarily true" for socialism, and taking that as an axiom is backwards thinking. The stuff millenarianism does to people's brains...

Russia vetoes UNSC resolution against placement of nuclear weapons in space after a Russo-Chinese amendment adding a call against conventional weapons in space fails in a closely-tied vote https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148951

In my experience, that's usually the opening salvo, because... ...because too much of Internet "debating" is a spectator sport that involves preaching to the converted and throwing out "sick burns".

...which of course is undermined by the Jedi being pointedly apolitical to the point of apathy, which the old fluff explored in-depth. Your post kind of reminds me of the in-universe early Imperial propaganda claiming the younglings were mind-controlling the local populace, and so Vader and the 501st did nothing wrong. While I won't entirely disagree, this is a case where a sci-fi cliche muddles our perception. Sci-fi doesn't generally know how to do non-sentient droids. Accordingly, it's not clear how sentient the droids are - and then we wonder into the real-life debate of what sentience is and how AIs can passably "fake" it by simply responding in-line with out expectations. All tha before the question whether sentience is even the primary factor to consider when asking whether droids deserve rights. Also, when SW did finally have a crack at the droid rights problem, it produced a character so obnoxious I signed up with the Butlerian Jihad.

Sci-fi isn't to blame, it's a reflection of the thinking applied to the real world, especially by third-party well-wishers.

Korolev's brainstorming for the name "Vostok" Everything up to and including Volna, Vulkan, Veter (wind), Vykhod (escape), Voskhozdeniye, Vzlyot (ascent) and Vozrozhdeniye (renaissance). Love how Vostok was still his first idea, followed immediately by Voskhod

The first Salyut station had a fairing stenciled "Zarya". TASS didn't care, so that's how the station is known now.

I think the missing link is the unexpected commercial success and the Shuttle woes. Basically, at roughly the time you'd have expected a resurgence of government space spending, instead the mamy-named Russian space industry first began to scoop up commercial space launches, and then it got the biggest one of all - the Soyuz seat-sharing agreement with NASA. I think at this point a dubious decision was made to wean it off into a commercial venture, despite little evidence that it would be sustainable, which was promptly exemplified in the pre-Rogozin disaster spree. Premature attempts to monetize something are not an uncommon problem, and politically it's rather difficult to fish not for a one-time bailout, but a near-permanent garden hose of money.

That was one of the proposals, yes. Ah, yes, I found the IRL Helldiver pod.

A person far braver than I am.