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Yep. The US Navy is afraid to enter the straight because Trump lied about who controls it but lies don’t stop missiles.

Pro tip: don’t travel to third world dictatorships like Alabama.

It’s true. They also issue a pistol as part of the kit and as far I know still so, but it is apparently optional and most cosmonauts choose to leave it behind.

Space gun control is a thing: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-i-stop-cosmonauts-carrying-guns

Thinking this is Reddit and taking the rules of a meme community seriously make you a real winner. ;-)

That story is apocryphal.

Pencils aren’t suitable in space because the last thing you want are little wood and graphite shavings floating around the capsule.

Both the US and Russia used grease pens.

The Fischer space pen was developed by a private company with no public investment and was marketed to the government and public.

Protip: Read the article before you out yourself as a moron for not understanding that they are talking about structural features of melting polar ice.

Russian capsules have returned to land since their very first launches.

The decision has more to do with geopolitics than physics. Russia does not have a robust Navy with access to equatorial waters on which to land a spacecraft, the US does. Given the historical accuracy of landing a capsule it is actually a hell of a lot easier to drive a big ship to the eventual location than it is to drive a big truck into the middle of a desert. The reason western nations return capsules to the sea is because its easier to recover them there.

Both approaches have technical challenges. Returning to land requires a slower landing speed (although as a percentage of the starting velocity of a spacecraft its a pretty insignificant difference) and landing on the sea requires the carrying of flotation devices and designing a capsule with buoyancy in mind.

In other words this post is completely inaccurate.

They are great for fighting wars against goat herders who live in caves, which apparently is the only military we can fight.

11 person company with 65,000 subscribers to their channel. Dude pays like $3000 per subscriber. Be cheaper just to pay people to listen to him.

It literally would have been cheaper to pay every subscriber a thousand dollars to listen to him.

He has made billions of dollars of the presidency and made himself everyone’s fucking problem, probably everything that he ever wanted.

Isn’t this one of those states that instructed people to report all their immigrant neighbors?

I guess they didn’t mean white immigrants.

Guy who charges taxpayers for him to golf at his own golf course is really concerned about fraud.

If anyone is curious here’s a fairly exhaustive description of the radio situation for this flight:

https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/pan-am-radio-pioneer-capt-almon-gray-amelia-didnt-know-radio/

Steam is a great example of how a privately held company can out compete publicly traded and venture capital funded corps.

It can take greater risks and can fund initiatives that won’t pay out within the current quarter. The steam deck is a great example of that. A device that no other corporation thought that we wanted and that required like a decade of working with open source linux projects to make happen, that isn’t something that EA would have been able to manage.

So what I am hearing if they you don’t care that your statement is factually incorrect. Neat.

You are correct about the US, but including Russia makes you sound like a moron.

You seem pretty confident in that despite the fact that large scale wars have made the current players in this war rich and powerful in the first place.

Look at the outcomes of WWII. The US and Russia emerge as superpowers. Hell, it’s the only reason Israel even exists.

Wars exist because they benefit the ruling class.

Pretty sure that’s the intent of whoever is telling Trump what to do.

Except that your boss just found an employee it likes more than you that doesn’t cost anything. The fact that it sucks at its job isn’t immediately apparent because your boss is an idiot.