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    Wait until you hear about entire national strategies based on forest offsetting. https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/5018693?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=nui Gazprom was also hoping to woo Japan with hydrogen produced from methane on Sakhalin, with carbon somehow captured.
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    It's possible we're suffering a semantic disconnect: I'm accustomed to referring to potential voters of a certain group as an electorate. Because of that, your attempt at a rebuttal doesn't work at all, but is rather another example on my favor: rolling coal makes sense to those who do it, logically and emotionally. And since hostility to outsiders is the basis for all group identification, whenever the political stakes are high, you get this sort of fratricidal bloodthirst.
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    So I win. It's a more complete version of the original MoD statement I saw on Interfax-AVN, and they do bluntly call X-37 a weapons platform.
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    P.S. I've read through the actual link. At around 13:54 Lavrov was still denying there's any evidence a test took place.
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    You ninja'd me. That statement must have come out just after 14:00, rendering all previous comments null. Now, Lavrov is a far more serious source. Parliamentarians have the decorum and judgement of your average redditor. Really waiting for the rumor mill to start specifying what "strike systems" has the US already deployed in orbit (as per Lavrov).
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    Question is, whose FOBS? China is presently making non-statements on the above happening. We also have a semi-official vapid denial from a deputy head of Duma armed forces committee.
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    This is what I'd call a hot take;
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    Yeah, expect the current Fengyun-1C flybys to get mixed in with that. The timing is rather convenient. I'd say we have a pretty solid case here: For the benefit of everyone involved, Ikar №39 is the civilian cover name of the satellite. We don't have a third hazard in play. Really wondering why they cast excrement on the fan like that, and whether this was impromptu or not. India at least pretended to make steps towards debris mitigation.
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    Not sure that quip sticks the landing. Electorates want things that "make sense" psychologically. Mitigating a harmful effect of human activity on nature through radical intervention - more human activity - causes dissonance, hence everything from reducing the human resource footprint to the Voluntary Extinction Movement, but no geoengineering. There's often more than a little bit of misanthropy involved in popular discussion of climate change.
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    I wonder if Hans Zimmer personally has had a significant role. Way too many films guilty of that seem to either have his OSTs or emulations of his OSTs. Don't BRRRR! me
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    A big leap at this point, with strong inentives for both saber-rattling and fake news. I'm at least waiting for someone to check if it's in the probable engagement basket for known sites (Plesetsk, Kapustin Yar). After the Chinese HGV equine excrements spectacle I'm willing to risk having to eat my words.
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    Satellite devris to pass by the ISS in 32 minites. All personnel instructed to take shelter inside the ships or the American segment... which is debris-immune? Or is the Moscow MCC not allowed to boss the Dragon crew around? https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5077545
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    Can't entirely agree. You do if you're using direct ascent ASAT, you don't if you've arranged a close encounter from a similar orbit. A delay-fused shell that detonates inside the target might have some value... but there's no point in making it thermobaric.
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    Oh, I fully agree. It's little more than a high-powered concussive round. But, of course, VaCuUm BoMb!!1!
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    Well, to be precise they were replaced by various rocketborne incendiary projectors like the M202 FLASH, which have been eschewed in favor specialist projectiles for general-purpose launchers (e.g. SMAW), and the incendiary munitions have been supplanted by thermobarics, known in the US by the euphemism "novel explosives". Russian terminology is quiant but straightforward in still calling such launchers "flamethrowers". @ARS
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    Sellers of fake COVID vaccination certificates begin to auction off the personal data of their clients... each of whom is liable to criminal charges. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5066303?from=glavnoe_2 Quelle surprise, of course... but the database for a (loosely defined) Moscow region is 500,000 entries long.
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    Deafening silence on whether it would affect the algorithm. However, past stories of dislike-deleting shenanigans do nothing to allay suspicions. Also, first snow. Dislike.
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    What a strange way to draw ROTON
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    Or, you could put it more plainly: yes, but what about the thousands in the above-mentioned argument?
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    Speaking about news, the weirdest thing happened yesterday. One of the TV channels on Moscow broadcasting is Euronews (yes, broadcasting, not satellite); it's sort of a backup since both Rossiya-24 and Izvestia both insist on showing the entire yawn-inducing government COVID teleconferences live. So here we are on Euronews, they're starting a segment on the Poland-Belarus situation when, bam! It's replaced by a "Chinese Panorama" flashcard. For at least half and hour, we get what feels like word-for-word translation of a CCTV broadcast. The flat, formalistic narration... the Soviet whiff was unmistakable. Yes, it included a segment on Shenzhou 13. Interestingly, they didn't focus much on gender. And then, once this sudden intrusion was done, the Euronews segment picked at the exact spot where it was cut, as if nothing happened. I've seen them goof up editing before, but not in such a bizarre manner, and I've never seen them inject an entire segment of Chinese broadcasting. I honestly don't know what to think of this. The timing of this "injection" certainly lends itself to a lot of political innuendo, but I really doubt the technical possibility.
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    I think there can be, not that I appreciate the other side of it. Planetary protection taken to the extreme would set an intolerably high bar for confirming these planets don't bear life. In fact, Zubrin has complained it's already reached the point of being obstructionist.
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    Hey, it beats accidentally blocking your port off with a half-sunken target barge.
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    Reminds me of Zubrin's argument about the need for a quick-and-dirty, low-infrastructure mission to Mars - gotta do it while the same person is in the White House.
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