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Angara-A5 cleared for fueling, launch expected tomorrow noon MSK.

IIRC Sagan once formulated that a purported alien would have to have features not found in any terrestrial creatures, otherwise it would likely be made up. European explorers imagined all manners of weird creatures, but they weren't prepared for what they found in Australia. Like, what the heck is that!?

The humble Tatra T3 ended up being used in Moscow for sixty eight years. (this is not a Cities: Skylines: Snowfall ad, but!)

Found some TEM Nuklon functional testing hardware now on display at VDNKh. Wide angle Also, a TEM model. Yes, it's conspicuously different from the rest of the hardware @nyrath, as per usual, I have a nuclear rocket to share.

Rosatom's hagiographic exposition at VDNKh is quite awesome for its level. Unfortunately, it ate the Onion. It has a stand about the Nuclear Volga. The Nuclear Volga was a 2015 April Fools by Popular Mechanics. And I'm hardly the first to notice the slip-ups. BTW, don't name your museum design studio Lorem Ipsum... Posted from the cafeterium over at pavilion 34 "Aviation and space exploration". Gonna moonshine as an unpaid tour guide again

I used to call simulation theory "creationism for the anti-religious". Then I learnt about gnostic esotericism and realized that this is just another permutation of it. Simulation theory proponents are ensnared by a millenia-old cult. And it can take pretty extreme forms. I know of a small but noisy group of Russian internet coaches eho think they're the player characters in a game and they promise to share the secret how to level up. And everyone else is a mindless NPC, of course.

Soyuz MS-24 landing nominal https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/13092

Meanwhile I'm seeing someone basically cry in the Detroit: Become Human forums about how profound a warning a small fluff article about the extinction of bees is.

This wasn't in the patchnotes.

I was thinking of a more weaponized model. Plus, is it possible to "squeeze" the blast into a planar burst instead of a point one?

We know from a certain movie about oil drillers that a surface nuclear blast doesn't do diddly to an incoming asteroid. What about a shaped surface or near-surface blast?

You know how media like Detroit: Become Human gets criticized that its androids are for some reason utterly humanlike and can just break the conditioning? Well, maybe they weren't completely wrong.

Amazon's artificial intelligence turns out to be Rooms Full of People. Again. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

Starlink v2 for sale in Moscow, 222k RUB for the terminal, subscription for 13.8k RUB. Make of it what you wish, looks like Elon really is having a compliance problem. https://t.me/svarog_msk/45

Ban me from there, then. I use alt-history with a point of divergence in the mid-2010s. Too many familiar and controversial faces.

Looks like the people behind the new Fallout series got the wrong idea about what the Brotherhood of Steel is. It's not that I mind the aesthetics, it's just those are misplaced aesthetics.

To further back this, only one missile has the sticker, and you definitely wouldn't use an identical paint scheme for a 'special' payload-tipped munition. Weapons designers can sometimes be pretty callous about including a passively radioactive component. Older Milan missiles have a thoroum-232-based IR tracer, for example.

Gues whose own worldbuilding 'project' includes a new, maritime trade-focused quasi-state great power arising from an anti-piracy pact in the Celebes Sea... Granted, that's north of Polynesia proper, but it gives more ground and extant population to work with.

Going by the highly scientific method of "mom and pop say so", what climate change has amounted to is having a summer and a winter with almost no transition in between.

April 2: +22⁰C April 5: +6⁰C April 8: +16⁰C General Winter making a last stand?

It's not wrong to enjoy "dumb action". Films don't have to be "high art". It's just that these days they struggle even with being that much.

Therezinosaurus be like: "B****, please"

You know, I'm somewhat of an epidemiologist / military strategist / economist / hydropower expert myself! (BTW why was nuclear power in the news?)

Well, the calcs show that Baltimore loses up to 200 mil a day idling and the new bridge would cost 1000 mil, so...

It's actually about marketing, really. The fifth generation label was invented by LockMart and the rest made up post-factum, although the classification isn't too terrible. Warships mostly had eras. If we go cross out the Age of Sail for simplicity's sake, it becomes mostly a matter of main armament. It's a bit chaotic, but after an initial era of slow-firing and inaccurate early rifles, you have the Hail of Fire era when quick-firing guns were only available up to 6 inches and so everyone would have those and only a couple larger guns. Then comes the Dreadnought era where long-range gunnery becomes possible, alongside turbine propulsion, and so there is a new focus on consolidating and maximizing main gun firepower. It lasts until the post WWII-period, punctuated by post-war force reductions and arms control treaties. The subsequent Missile Era can also be subdivided into before and after late 1980s as single or twin launcher arms with below-deck magazines are replaced with VLS cells. Frankly, this is comparable to the rise of the dreadnought because the number of 533 or 620 mm weapons carried per each ship has increased drastically. This was still a thing during the First Cold War. I know for a fact that Project 956 went from a mostly artillery-focused destroyer to a (very overloaded) general combatant in response to the rise of the Spru-Can. Also, the Iowas were unmothballed largely citing Soviet Project 1144 heavy cruisers, IIRC.