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    Plague, war, famine... what are the wild beasts going to look like?
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    Only as surreal as restaurants requiring you to wear a mask while you're going to your table and while you're leaving, but in-between the virus can't infect you. To mods: this is no longer a controversial matter. All masking requirements have been waived as cases crater; coronavirus has been cancelled in favor of a "special military operation".
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    "No refunds" is the rule of the game this year, apparently. I could list quite a few services and companies who acted in a similar fashion. ...although to be fair, OneWeb was already pretty much the last commercial customer Roscosmos had anyway.
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    Roscosmos is going to keep OneWeb's money (not that they'd be able to hand it over at this point) and the six rockets. https://ria.ru/20220322/sputniki-1779368654.html
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    Temperature anomalies of 20 to 30⁰C both in the Arctic and the Antarctic https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-circle-strong-temperatue-wave-forecast-spring-march-2022-fa/ Somebody stop Roland Emmerich already...
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    That was one of the proposed applications of the Tsar-Bomb. Hence some people jumping to the conclusion that Poseidon carries one. Also, the project may be as old as 1988. The GRAU index "2M39" was encountered in documentation from June 1992, and said documentation already included procurement of radiation shielding (2Ф39.1 КБ3.01) for a depot in Vilyuchinsk. All of this fancy kit probably dates back to the early-to-mid-1980s, which saw a barrage of incremental responses to SDI getting various levels of funding.
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    Here's another thing, though, @SSTO Crasher: too much ink and money has been spent on designing concepts and ordnance for a limited nuclear war for limited nuclear war to be completely implausible. And you can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it.
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    Tens of thousands of entirely novel chemical weapon formulations in 6 hours. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9?fbclid=IwAR11_V1cd9SUxEvUfwrWMA7TUcroyYIY1nBDUL3KaS-8B4rG5MIqZCmjm0M Sleep tight.
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    It's appended to an RT article from 2014. I've also found a second photo, used in articles from 2018 but displaying the TMA-12M patch. Also, They're the same suit, looks like.
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    Oleg Artemiev, mid to late 2014. A few years later they brought along a version with the Russian tricolor on both breasts.
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    Why would they celebrate that with yellow, though? Besides, if they wanted to do political signalling on the ISS, three pieces of white tape would be a whole lot more specific.
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    Yes, they snuck in the coveralls onboard and somehow ditched the original ones, uh-huh. The "Baumanets" branding, as well as calling MS-21 "S.P. Korolev" both hapenned in January. I looked into that because Sergei Pavlovich's national self-identification is another matter of Rule 2.2b.
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    They went manual again https://www.interfax.ru/world/830093 Contact made at 22:14 MSK Successful docking 7 minutes behind schedule https://ria.ru/20220318/mks-1778951543.html
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    I'd be more worried about typhoons rather than earthquakes around Fukushima
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    If Rogozin is going to make a joke about handing the Kazachok lander platform over to the VDV, he's going to have to steal that joke from me.
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    "Good riddance to bad rubbish"
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    When modded adapters between part sizes get out of hand. These look like Utah plates, but that's all I know.
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    A lazy emulation of S-300's fire control radar ("Tombstone") with an unconventional external accessory. Stuff like that happens sometimes
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    No. This doesn't have terminal guidance, at least in the usual sense: However, this involves a rather esoteric terrain-matching system on top of satellite guidance not available to a Soviet drone developed in the mid-1970s. There don't seem to be any good sources on Tu-141 but there is a description of the autopilot on the concurrent Tu-143. https://topwar.ru/137561-otechestvennaya-bespilotnaya-aviaciya-chast-2.html?ysclid=l0sgql86qd Apparently it has simple velocity sensors and a radio altimeter, and mostly makes timed turns. That would be horrifically inaccurate, and putting a modern nav system into it would be quite the handful. Also, the source notes that Tu-143's payload included CBRN recon and "leaflet container" options. Now, there's four known Soviet leaflet airdrop systems, and that's AgitAB-250 and AgitAB-500 bombs (~37 kg of 'agitation'), an APT airdropped pack of some sort, and a BFK-AL pack for the modular KMGU dispenser pod (maybe a bit too late-model for the mid-1970s drone - some sources say the KMGU was designed as late as 1993, but this would raise the hairy topic of how come large stockpiles of BFK-P R-55 nerve gas submunitions existed). Yep. You read that. Bombs. Some sort of a payload deployment and jettison mechanism, at the very least. It's not an impossible inference that a Tu-143, and therefore a Tu-141, can carry ordinary light bombs by default. It's just that you have to be a madman to try and use it this way.
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    Chinese space officials: "'Near'?"
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    I'm talking about the Orlan-10 incident in Romania... and unless the reporter or the minister are severely coffee-deprived and missed a drastic change in topic, so does the article. To be fair, I didn't specify this in my post either.
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    Today, while reading about the Megatons to Megawatts deal, I've discovered that there is a NUKEM Technologies GmbH.
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    Back to our regular scheduled programming. Is this a joke? The Romanian minister of defense says it was a Soviet-made drone that came from the Ukranian side, "very maybe unlikely but it could have been" a Russian [snip]. Soviet-made...
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    And visa versa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(Ukraine)
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