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Oh, you think it's this easy. Unfortunately, merely reading an article on an unfamiliar topic does not provide you with the knowledge required to depict something fully realistically. You need a correct wider context to put the tidbits in, and feeding a few facts to a layman can just encourage the Dunning-Krüger effect. That at least takes reading a lot of Wikipedia, on topocs that are alarmingly obscure.

NASA began production work on four units of the Apollo Lunar Mapping and Survey System. It was a [redacted] based on [redacted] borrowed from [redacted], and owing of the success of the Lunar Orbiter thanks to [redacted], it never became necessary.

Never mind the -ism, not sure about the Roman version, but Hera is probably one of the most cheated-on women in all of the world's mythology.

What's interesting about electric arc systems is that they allow for much smaller facilities to be practical. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/23/business/the-rise-of-mini-steel-mills.html Note article date Also, to mention the usual canard, high-temperature Gen IV reactors have been proposed as a way to process steel.

Good question. I believe the textbook explanation is that there's a rocky core beneath the metallic hulydrogen, which would be the original planetsimal that collected the hydrogen around itself. Not sure if the heterogeneities of a metal-deficient accretion disc would suffice to form planets.

Bouncing off of that question, is it possible that there was an early population of pure non-metal planets alongside the earliest generation of stars?

About half a year ago someone on this forum wondered about the overlap between space enthusiasts and "militarists". ...and it's not that I've been overloading myself with military-related content, for example. It's all been work and mostly Cities: Skylines.

Welp, you made me. Fun fact: the Reid Flying Submarine 1... did both of the things its name claimed. Poorly, but not bad for a garage tinkerer.

Re: Don't Look Up! Joke's on you, Roscosmos has the world's only certified Asteroid Defense Specialist onboard.

"China picks up trash. Here's why it's bad."

In apparent continuance of Soviet counter-intel habits, the Russian company Kronstadt is named after a naval port outside St Petersburg is actually located in the city of Dubna, which is landlocked unless you take the Moscow sea nickname seriously its drones fly and are probably a bit hydrophobic

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Some people are aware that Russian/Slavic names are a bit of a nightmare for someone who just needs to name a character, primarily because of the numerous overlapping diminutive forms - some of which overlap full names in other non-Slavic (Anna - Anya, from Hungarian) and even Slavic languages (among some of the Southern Slavs, Nadia is the full form of "Hope", whereas in Russian it acts as a diminutive for Nadezhda). And these diminutives can then be further "enhanced" with a myriad of "standardized" diminutive suffixes. Some of the diminutive forms have eclipsed full ones among Anglophones - compare the number of times you've heard Aleksandra and Sasha, or Natalia and Natasha. Hence the Serb Suzana Drobnjakovic making her stage name a pun - Sasha Alexander. However, this merely stractches the surface of what's been done to the most popular, unisex Greek-Russian name: The following are some of the accepted permutations: Oleksandr(a) - Ukrainian spelling Alex(a) Alik/Alya Alix - made famous by the last Russian empress Xander/Sandra - the version that's made it into the Anglosphere Sanya Ksana - as in Oksana, which is the Ukranian version of Xenia Ksanya Aleksasha Sasha Sashura (!?) Shura Iskander - the version used in the Islamic world, probably deserves a tree of its own Didn't include Ara, Adya and Asya, because maybe I've only ever heard the third one a couple of times, and mostly not to Sashas but to Agnes. What's interesting is that, despite technically no restrictions on baby names, which led to some dubious creativity during Soviet years ("Nice to meet you, my name's Radium, but you may call me Radik"), these shortened forms have largely stayed out of IDs and therefore official conversation. Jebediah would stay Jebediah, except in the company of fellow pumpkin-suits.

Could improve them with a Daily Mail article, or, or... Can the ISS deorbit be used to disrupt Nordstream 2 approvals?

Public Service Announcement: if you intend to cheat during a video call by having a guy behind the laptop desperately Googling for answers and shoving a smartphone into your face, please make sure there isn't a mirrored surface (such as a kitchen oven) behind your back. It's rather unfortunate that I got outvoted when I flunked his online test for suspected copy-pasting of copious amounts of text.

The West has only begun to tap the meme potential of that product.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk, after "fragging" a few launchpads... With the Railway Launch, the real news is that Barguzin ICBM is still ostensibly alive and kicking despite repeated news of its cancellation... mostly because it makes little sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaks#Thermochemical_reactors

Unfortunately it doesn't look that way. Instead, industrial polymers are made from the various short-chain aromatics harvested from naphthas.

There's an ongoing brouhaha between the US and Russia about visas - the reciprocated expulsion of diplomats makes a mess of consular affairs, plus both sides are coming up with even more absurd rules (e.g. the US doesn't issue a visa for replacement diplomats until Russia issues a diplomatic visa, Russia insists the US replaces men with men and women with women...), and generally both sides look to sabotage each other. NASA representatives in Russia have been subjected to similar blackballing - one waited for her visa for 18 months. Visa applications for people off the street are essentially at a standstill.

Oh, the Buzzer has continued to work despite similar troll-y jamming in 2018. The presumed US numbers station ('Cynthia') wrapped up in 2003 and the two British/Commonwealth stations ('Lincolnshire poacher'/'Cherry ripe') shut down in 2008-2009.

Nikolai Chub (Expedition 69) has his US visa denied. Rogozin describes his inability to undergo familiarization training with the US segment to be a major safety issue. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5180527

Today in Russian archeology: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/party-like-a-sumerian-reinterpreting-the-sceptres-from-the-maikop-kurgan/EFEEFA5BD92653748F5A0F04CD133184?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=mobile