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DDE replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
So essentially, it's a ducted counterpart of the turboprop. The propfan sits somewhere in between, mixing the rotor design elements of the two. -
The Rest In Peace thread: Teri Garr, October 29, 2024.
DDE replied to StrandedonEarth's topic in The Lounge
Natalia Sergeevna Koroleva, surgeon, lecturer and her father's biographer, dead at 88 https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/news/2023/08/13/989836-umerla-doch-sergeya-koroleva -
As far as stories about aliens go, this is a fairly plausible one given past human colonization habits.
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Not soldier-proofed enough
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LK-99 Room Temp Ambient Pressure Superconductor
DDE replied to Shpaget's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Ginsburg center for high-temperature superconducting and quantum materials, Lebedev physics institute, have come to the press with a vehement rebuttal. They found the synthesis instructions to be erroneous and had to reverse-engineer a synthesis process from the provided chemical formulae. Both resultant materials were insulators and demonstrated no exotic structure or behaviors. https://m-gazeta-ru.translate.goog/science/2023/08/08/17384882.shtml?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=mobile&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp In truth, we might never know. That's exactly the kind of secret sauce that doesn't benefit from scientific transparency. -
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DDE replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
As a very unenthusiastic driver who usually rides shotgun whenever possible, I can tell you it does take drivers 3-5 years to notice new roadside buildings. They don't get to gawk around too much. -
Plesetsk, Soyuz-2.1b. Assumed Glonass launch. https://t.me/mod_russia/29041
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DDE replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
They also say ammo dump fires always happen just before an outside inspection... -
What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
DDE replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
One of us. One of us. One of us... -
I'm also pretty sure this model will be the uber collector's item from now on.
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The regulars of our AI threads should also check out his pinned comment.
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Did I recount a third innovative fraud scheme, the self-abduction? "Hello, I'm from the FSB, there are people trying to kill you, don't contact anyone, go to ground, fly to some random city, buy a burner phone, and BTW, wire me all your money." And then on top of it all, the victim's relatives get a ransom call. I've counted three media reports thus far. And again, this is all going to spill over and menace the world at some point - criminals read too, and language barrier isn't a problem (e.g. the well-documented Brazilian Portuguese traffic on Russian hacking forums).
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Well, it's been a terrible week on the phone fraud front in Russia. https://www.rbc.ru/politics/02/08/2023/64ca45769a7947fe52564167 At least half of last week's spate of 16 arson attempts at military muster stations have been the result of phone fraud. Yes, seriously, it's proven possible to convince people from all walks of life that (1) if someone is trying to get a loan in your name, you need to get that loan first! And sell the flat if you have one, too! (2) the obvious next step is to transfer all your money to a safe account indicated by your "benefactor". And (3) to ultimately defeat the fraudsters you need to take a Molotov to where they are. Previously the preferred target used to be the nearest Sberbank branch, but this week the supposed dens of villainy have shifted to military comissariats. In one particularly egregious case, the commissariat in Podol'sk was attacked twice within the space of a few hours, by a 20-year-old shift manager at not-McDonalds, and then a 76-year-old. The latter had been robbed blind in April and has been used as a de facto sleeping agent. Another case saw a woman fly from Moscow to Saratov to torch the commissariat there. There's one casualty from all of this: a 74-year-old attacker committed suicide afterwards, in the flat he'd just sold off. Equally crazy was a case to weeks ago, where the man was being guided to the local ATM to wire his money away, ran into cops twice, got recognized as being manipulated both times, walked away and finally parted with his money at a third ATM. https://www.ufa.kp.ru/online/news/5360335/ Which means Ufa's police were actively staking out the local ATMs looking for glassy-eyed people talking into their phone. And they aren't the first ones doing this. https://76.ru/text/gorod/2021/05/04/69899852/ https://www.vk.com/wall-180791822_891203 https://infoya.ru/?module=articles&action=view&id=44817 Information on the operation of Ukranian and Georgian fraud call centers beyond Russia is somewhat sporadic, and they seem to be leaning into investment fraud in Europe and US, but ultimately it's highly unlikely such a business model and political psy-op won't be replicated elsewhere. All you need is are two unfriendly jurisdictions and linguistic adjecency... or AI. Worse yet, don't think it's just old jeezers and financial illiterates that are being milked (and small children, but there's a very different scenario for those). It's only largely old jeezers and financial illiterates.
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You're assuming good faith. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28377/tom-delonges-origin-story-for-to-the-stars-academy-describes-a-government-info-operation Edit: I've read through the whole material just now (having posted it just because it seemed to detail what I believed). And jeesh, the 2014 Guardian article they link paints a coherent picture of a community long-nilurtured by the MiBs they're supposed to oppose, but one that's been on the decline in the late 2000s. And then of course you have the mundane role of the red herring for public discourse. Reminds me of a recent episode of an episode of a Russian CSI knock-off where a corrupt mayor arranged for a local TV starlet to "get cancer" or "have their daughter abducted" whenever his own misdeeds were publicized.
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I think the wave has been some time in the making, and the balloon incident has merely triggered it. Hopefully 2016 is sufficiently old to not be incendiary, but these two thought it was a good idea to make UFO disclosure a presidential campaign pledge. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/clinton-campaign-promises-to-declassify-ufo-files-170662/ And we're not talking about some kook from AllatRA (who is running for POTUS next year... wonder if he's consulted with the member of the cult that's ostensibly possessed by an Annunaki, or even aware of half the repurposed bovine waste these New Agers peddle).
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DDE replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
Wait until it has to explains why all the snooty Prussians have Russian-sounding surnames.