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    Can actively cooled spacecraft armour replace the high-temperature radiator array? @MatterBeam
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    We'll find out once we build Moon colonies.
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    Well, the theory for Venus appears pretty established - deuterium is less vulnerable to solar wind erosion.
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    Some words of caution about the latest statements at the highest of levels:
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    What, you don't want to play with some twelve-year-old wheezers that utter prodigious Shakespearian insults like
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    He just wants her zero-g detector.
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    Interesting timing Yes, Gerasimov always holds his head like that.
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    And the reason? He just wanted to go home.
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    Yes, and one of the few groups of such people have been experiencing "technical issues".
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    I feel like that classification highlights the inconsistencies between the low level of independently observed rads, and the very high level of rads the victims had to be exposed to for class IV ARS; the rads in Severodvinsk sound more like an INES Level 5 or lower. Either the rads have been very efficiently kept from spreading, or the medic - assuming we're talking about testimony by someone in the know and not a glorified floorsweeper - is incorrect about the cause of death. Still, as I said some posts ago, beta burns are burns. Actually, they shouldn't even be getting ARS from betas, but radiation dermatitis. Either they were exposed to a sudden criticality, or it wasn't лучевая болезнь.
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    Alright, boys, girls and green people, fresh catch. Actually mostly nothing out of line with earlier descriptions - apparently the hospital ended up badly contaminated, but the military decon units descended on it and scrubbed it clean. Reports of prickling are consistent with a beta burn, but since only one of the dozens of medics checked had any Cs infiltration, it sounds like the masks did their job and the whole ordeal is scummy, terrifying, but largely inconsequential. Except for the bath contaminated with cesium that the military took away instead of scrubbing. That, and the medic asserts the casualties died from ARS/radiation poisoning. Anyone willing to compare that with plume spread projections? And now just to toot my horn: Fer the lulz, about Poseidon:
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    Doesn't seem to be much interest in that: the location isn't really in question.
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    I use ProbesPlus to cover that ATM. So... you're probably going to expand on DMagic, aren't you?
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    I would. Where would Rogozin conjure up a quarter of $1 trillion?
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    Rogozin: Yenisei is 1/4 the cost of the SLS https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4066612
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    The seabed Poseidon is one interpretation of Skif. I'm skeptical of it (in favour of an R-29 missile), primarily because of at least two, maybe three classes of submarine designed to carry it. Don't forget a cage of chickens to keep it warm.
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    When you're hospitalized, and your phone has been hacked so you were forced to do a factory reset, there's only one thing left to play:
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    Well, are the wizards in D&D human? Because the LoTR ones aren't.
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    Looks like another arms control mechanism is destined for the garbage bin. This isn't a police procedural, you're not supposed to plead the Fifth.
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    Onwards to Togliatti!
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    The one in Kandalaksha in 2000 actually managed to get lethal rads from an RTG, which is a serious achievement. Power density would be quite abysmal, and the design is inconsistent with "leaked" (big scare quotes) schematics. This seems to be an increasing trend in Russian defence policy, from Schola Progenium to geneseed collection. It's not just a coat of arms.
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    Oars? How needlessly elaborate.
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    Pavel Podvig is a treat. I'll populate an entire page with his retweets. Comrade Major, I didn't write this. ...but since you insist, I know a good pizzeria on Kitai-Gorod. For what it's worth, the photo of the container was titled Skif.jog or somesuch, and it's very different in size from the final article. Common handling equipment for multiple families of doomsday weapons? ??? UDMH or non-volatile rad contamination? Unsurprisingly, the residents of the Severodvinsk area are moderately radiation-savvy.
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    There's nowhere near enough of them. And thus we neatly return on topic!
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