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Alloys don't work like that - it's not a dorect merging of pros and cons. In reality, you have either a majority-tungsten alloy with most of the failings mentioned above, or a tungsten-doped steel with a significant increase in mechanical resilience. There are some tungsten - titanium oxide alloys in the works, apparently, but again, not what you're looking for. Ultimately, I haven't heard of a good heat shield material capable of also acting as a structural material as well as the material for a cryogenic tank. I don't think they'll get away from either some sort of cooling, or tiles, or scales, or something else that would be a bother. I don't think Shuttle's problematic TPS was a fluke that you can just walk away from.

Dniepr is stated to be capable of 550 kg to TLI. That's surprisingly much.

A better question is whether there even was a Mars in his plans at the time.

Ugh. Without outright lockdowns, in some places Corona has boosted road traffic as people avoid mass transit.

Or it would have to be jettisoned by someone else. My best take on the Russiam plan is that the whole station gets deorbited in 2028.

There are no plans to do that. At least from the Russian side.

In part three (?) of "how to confuse the attention-deficient public with headlines", Borisov is now being quoted as saying that Russia won't exit the ISS until 2028. What he's actually saying is that there's a hard commitment until 2024 and after that, an extension is "highly likely". https://tass.ru/kosmos/15827337?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=mobile

Look what the cat's dragged in. We might have another launch in the near future

The opposite of the kerenki is the Constantine rouble, which as of last year went for $2.6 mln. There are eight, maybe nine coins, and their value stems from the wild political background. You probably haven't heard of a Constantine, Emperor of all Russias. In 1823, Alexander the Blessed signed a sealed manifesto confirming the abdication of his presumptive heir, Constantine, in favor of Nikolay. When Alexander died (some say went into voluntary exile - a whole 'nother layer of mythos) only three people in Saint-Petersburg knew of the arrangement, and so before it was brought before the State Council, preparations were underway for Constantine's accession. One of the people attending was finance minister Georg Cancrin, who, despite having learned of the manifesto, nevertheless ordered the imperial mint to go ahead with prototype work for the Constantine rouble. It gets even more interesting when one considers the concurrent republican Decemberist uprising, which sought to exploit the confusion of the interregnum and prop Constatine up as a more pliable ruler. Ultimately, Cancrin ordered the work wrapped up, swore everyone to secrecy, and kept one of the coins for himself. The coins would only start to resurface in the 1850s, each with an increasingly wild story attached to it.

Can Eyes on a Car Reduce Traffic Accidents? https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543174.3546841

Looks like the gun is only present on variants of the Mi-8TV.

Legalese and the broader bureaucratese are also driven by the constant neuroticism about leaving any ambiguity; the desire to cram as many caveats as possible into a single phrase can produce utter monstrosities.

Monetary facts? OK. The 1917 Kerensky rouble was so widely counterfeited and debased that eventually they gave up on cutting it into individual notes. As to porcelain money, apparently it was one of the many surrogate media used in Weimar Germany.

"Bugs, Mr Rico! Zillions of them!"

Without watching For All Mankind, I've learnt that its alt-history premise has jumped the shark:

Well, it was a USAF "black" space shuttle program.

Why did everyone suddenly remember this movie existed? Wasn't it released in February?

Valery Polyakov (Mir Expeditions 3-4 and 15-17)

Potential strange star https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00544

It's on my list, marked with "Great risk of addiction"

I shall stress this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027722000580?via%3Dihub#! Mostly because all three of my (now official) subordinates are to some degree law graduates.

It's the reason why I'm so skeptical of everything that has to do with startups and "disruption". No way the big dogs would just be letting something radical happen to their business model. And in this case, the big dogs happen to have their own spy agencies and other bells and whistles.

Why is there such a common form-factor of single-floor supermarkets/hypermarkets that are sized as hangars with ceilings that are at least 5 m high? It just feels like a waste of space.

No, they're baked into the building designs. Basically, the DLC's features are: Pedestrian areas, which are supposed to use pedestrian-only roads (although I've yet to ascertain they're strictly required) and centralized freight and garbage handling buildings; pedestrian roads only admit emergency vehicles "Wall-to-wall" specializations for residential, commercial and offices. They are not in any way tied to pedestrian areas. They're basically a new mid-density tier, at least in appearances. I like the way they look on a square grid - a veritable urban sprawl. Miscellaneous extra services and transport buildings. The murals are present in much of the added content as a non-optional splash of color; for growables, they're part of the building variants. They are not obtuse, even they're the size of an entire wall. They're definitely used to artificially inflate the variability of the wall-to-wall buildings, which definitely feels appropriate to me. Very 2020s mass-produced wannabe individuality. The free update also has also added a bunch of varieties of roads.