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  1. DDE
    * 14 years, it would seem. Or maybe a bit less. It seems that COVID and the Ukrainian not-war happened as grand sendaway to the crest of the post-2008 economic cycle. Welcome to inflationworld, everyone, where a guaranteed interest rate of 2% isn't enough for a consumer like me to even pick my phone up... at some point, the way lendings constantly lose value has to knock out at least some mechanisms of capitalism, and thus prevent someone from simply raising money through debt rather than direct investment. The whole start-up culture really was a product of people looking to shove money into something...
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    Allow me to repost this one as well https://medium.com/prime-movers-lab/2023-will-be-the-year-that-the-new-space-bubble-pops-21f228db355f
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    An interesting study in statistics. Most of the "growth" is in tiny blips, while the big oomphs hold steady.
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    Gwangyang Steel Works is basically someone playing Factorio IRL, from ore offloading to rolling mills
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    I haven't heard of a single design where this was a problem by the time a tank went into production, besides maybe the KV-2 with its very top-heavy turret. We're talking about moving what is usually a well-balanced piece of machinery mounted on a ring of ball bearings. The traverse crank is geared, and typically has two speeds, so it's possible for the designers to sacrifice rotation speed to keep fatigue reasonable. As far as I understand, for WWII the standard drill was to use powered traverse for coarse turns and then went manual for targeting. This is really well-illustrated by the controls on the T-34. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rTnS0XS2al8&t=3m40s
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    It had a collar. Attempts to catch and interrogate still ongoing. We have roadblocks in place.
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    -1 (already badly worn) NASA T-shirt. Snagged it on the door handle, tore right through. But trying to photo the big white cat that's strayed into our driveway was a noble cause.
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    Glonass-K launch out of Plesetsk nominal, no Kosmos number yet as far as I see https://www.interfax.ru/russia/867085
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    Exteme TWR in LRPEs was mostly attempted through exotic, high-density propellants. At one point, some madman tried a mercury compound.
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    The blast doors of Bunker 703 (Special Archives of the Foreign Ministry), Moscow is a 10-ton ferrocrete slab. The fun fact is, actuators (purely mechanical ones in the mid-1950s through to 1981) are located exclusively on the outside of the bunker entryway. Before the addition of an electric motor with buttons on either side, the only way someone from inside the bunker was supposed to open it was with a crowbar. No, the guys that set uo a museum there have no idea why this was the choice made. The gasproof doors (such as the one behind the blast door) are an ordinary hand-operated "quick-acting" design. Granted, if something on the other side of the blast door was holding it in place, anyone inside was supposed to use the escape tunnels (without full blast doors) into a subway service trunk.
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    But is there a relevant country that can't secure access to a launch site as close or closer go the equator than Baikonur?
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    Is it possible to induce a region-level atmospheric radio wave blackout through ionosphere excitation? Got a word of mouth Starlink outage 'conspiracy' theory here (that's not limited to Starlink, but claims GSO comm disruption as well).
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    Unfortunately, I didn't communicate the problem to my parents - and they dismissed it as calusses or minor wounds from rocks - until I had a total of 52 warts over both feet, a thumb and an index finger. That freezing campaign... wasn't fun.
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    Allow me to derail this absolutely serious discussion with some tomfoolery. Panorama, satire, October 3rd: "Starlink internet stops working across Ukraine for 'unknown reasons'" The Financial Times, not satire, October 7th: "Ukrainian forces report Starlink outages during push against Russia" They do say The Onion and their ilk are the most reliable news sources out there...
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    Ah, you missed a key feature. The Orion drive units are CASABA-HOWITZER shaped nuclear charges firing a blast of hypervelocity tungsten plasma in a cone about 22⁰ wide, aimed at the launching spacecraft.
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    Mine-resistance ambush-protected vehicles are designed with the titular purposes in mind, complete with a V-shaped hull and as much distance between the wheels and the backsides of the passengers as possible. This makes them rather top-heavy and flip-prone. Because of that, they get training wheels.
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    Germans are said to get hit with the same sorr of dissonance. Foreign speakers learn the idealized Hochdeutsch and lack the usual regional accents. Ended up getting a whopping 17 years, starting with first grade and continuing all the way through Masters'. However, I slacked off and very rarely got technical, learning much of the language through sheer emulation of consumed media (hence I'm quite mum on the whole phonetics discussion). The result is some puzzling mixture of American and British, topped by the very detectable Russian accent (especially if I've just "switched gears")... and the general slurriness and excessive speed.
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    It's the Mûmakil in the room.
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    Centaur-Anything is valid with a proper "corset". After all, all the design work on Shuttle-Centaur was complete.
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    RL-10 is good, baloon tanks are light. Why mess with perfection? And all things considered, your question might not be too far out there.
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    Now, if you would allow me to direct your attention to the draft 2023 federal budget right here: https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/201614-8 According to Annex 12 (out of the 592 files bundled in with the draft, jeez), page 1904, Roscosmos is allocated 236 bln RUB, vis a vis 191 bln RUB for 2022. https://spending.gov.ru/budget/grbs/730/ Some say Borisov only took the job on the condition that "his pie" got 30% bigger...
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    It's so shut off it's been flooding us with unprecedented amounts of cash (the significant difference between Russian and global rouble-dollar exchange rate was one sign), and OPEC+ is negotiating another supply squeeze deal right in the face of preparations for the vaunted 'price cap' (which is already getting so many caveats added it's going to be a complete joke - simultaneously decreeing that third-party processed Russian oil isn't subject to restrictions and vowing not to sanction violators of the price cap). Treating either combatant in this war as a house of cards about to collapse has proven to be an abysmal approach.
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    "Stellaris is the only game where something like this makes sense." "or when watching two possums in a trailer park" Banging it as loud as you can! my sides
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    I think the key question there is whether these phalanges can be... actuated.
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    65th anniversary of Sputnik, and the Ministry of Defence decides to slop6in that it "conducts experiments with other nations' satellites in orbit". https://ria.ru/20221004/rossiya-1821306516.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=mobile
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