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    Fun Fact Thread! (previously fun fact for the day, not limited to 1 per day anymore.)

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    Norway is building a border wall with Russia.

     

    And it's not what you think.

     

    Norwegian deer herds keep wandering over to the Russian side, and the Russian environmental authorities giddily send over detailed bills for all the eaten moss... which the Norwegian side honors (as best as it can given the current restrictions), but the costs merit a border fence at this point.

    https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6183457

    Meanwhile, the Soviet-Finnish Deer Convention of 1933 fixes such payments at 0.05 Swiss Golden Franc per adult deer per day, but no such document exists with Norway.

    http://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/138740-konventsiya-ob-olenyah-mezhdu-soyuzom-sovetskih-sotsialisticheskih-respublik-i-finlyandskoy-respublikoy-gelsinki-4-iyulya-1933-goda#mode/inspect/page/4/zoom/4

    Russian Launch and Mission Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by DDE

    6 hours ago, K^2 said:

    Unfortunately, the mission itself also became a political talking point, and people who used it as such clearly do not understand how these constraints impact mission success.

    No more or less than any other space mission. It's been thoroughly forgotten until about two years back.

    PR limelight is PR limelight.

    Russian Launch and Mission Thread

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    5 hours ago, DDE said:

    "Move fast and break things". You'll at least manage 14 times out of 45.

    To quote a certain sniper on Telegram, Luna-25 wasn't just built by people who'd never built a planetary lander, the people who taught those people never built a lander either. They would've just barely caught the builders of Luna-24 and the various Marses retiring. A two-generation gap is combined with the desire to make every mission an overcomplicated Flagship-class because anything less wouldn't safisfy even formal funding criteria.

    And I bet they also face a similar problem to the defense industry, who have such strict price controls for cost-plus comtracts that they have to either fudge the books to operate at above costs, or invent endless R&D that isn't as tightly scrutinized...

    Cat Picture Thread!

    in The Lounge

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    4 minutes ago, magnemoe said:

    Waring don't let an cat watch itself in a mirror for an long time. 

    Or the guy who posted, my cat diapered then I found it and took it home, two days later my can came home, I now have two identical cats. 

    Don't worry, one is a striped Kurilian bobtail, the other is some sort of generic Siberian cat with an utterly uniform coat and a fluffy tail with a white tip.

    Russian Launch and Mission Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    1 hour ago, Codraroll said:

    I would think they have planned the program in advance, and that each mission is not dependent on the success of the previous one. Even before they launched Luna-25, they must have known there was a certain chance it would not succeed, and take that into account when planning the way forward.

    Unfortunately, Luna-25 was the lunar landing demonstrator. Given that Luna-27 is supposed to land as well, preferably not as an impactor, Luna-25's failure creates a rather stark problem.

    Russian Launch and Mission Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    3 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

    Do we even know if Luna-26 is going to be a thing now that this has happened? Or if it was even concrete at all?

    Luna-26 is supposed to be* an orbiter, I don't see how Luna-25's failure should affect it, as opposed to Luna-27.

    * given the effect on Luna-27, it would be logical to expect a Luna-25 redux, potentially scratched together from the more sophisticated test stands and spares, to be inserted into the program schedule, which would upset the number scheme

    "Move fast and break things". You'll at least manage 14 times out of 45.

    Russian Launch and Mission Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by James Kerman
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    5 hours ago, K^2 said:

    Completely 3rd hand info that originated from Telegram, so absolutely treat it as a rumor, but there's information that the orbit change burn lasted 50% longer than it was supposed to. I don't think I need to explain to anyone here what the consequences are if this is true.

    Essentially, confirmed a minute ago. Complete loss of comms, presumed crash.

    https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/10540

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    AI—image/text/paperclip maximizer?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    NovelAI has recently introduced a nice feature which allows you to click on each world to see the weight/probability (?) of it and major alternative options AI was picking from.

    This makes me wonder if it's possible for an image transformer to have an "Inspect" mode that allows you to see the keywords influencing the part of an image.

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