Slam it into a foreign country and claim it was self-defence?
CMDR_omnicognate on
You mean the lead pockets all the money and they “smekalka” something together with cheese and chewing gum leading to the deaths of several thousand?
goettel on
Serve folks fine vodka on tap?
YsoL8 on
Make a great public display of the first module which then turns out to be painted wood?
jimbotherisenclown on
Sacrifice a million of their citizens for a chance at success?
House13Games on
Let’s hope its better than their AI humanoid program.
Brusion on
Space Station? They can’t even launch to the ISS anymore.
CrookedWarden19 on
How do you make an entire space station accidentally fall out of an eighth story window?
Benjamasm on
Borrow it from China/NK and watch it run off into the woods?
Look at what someone else is doing, make it 5times bigger, and watch it fail in all possible ways?
Declare a 3 day special military operation for getting to the moon, and never get anywhere near achieving their goals while killing 100s of thousands of their young males in their attempts?
Sohn_Jalston_Raul on
So they’re planning to repurpose the ISS core modules for their new station, even though the ISS core modules are themselves repurposed Salyut modules, lol
iamamuttonhead on
I had to read the entire thing to find out that it wasn’t:
build a vodka still in their space station
Very disappointed
hornswoggled111 on
Brought to you by the geniuses that designed the Lada.
Laugh_Track_Zak on
Not have it launch? Cause they cant launch anything for a long time.
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Candid_Koala_3602 on
Fuck Russia and its’ bullshit.
OnTheList-YouTube on
They’ll defene**s**trate* someone out of its window?
TheOnsiteEngineer on
So they plan on reusing the aging, already over-their-time-limit, heavily fatigue cycled Russian segment of the ISS and attach their shiny new modules to it? That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. I also seem to recall the Russian segment is the main cause of concern for the increasing leakage measured in the ISS.
OlympusMons94 on
Instead of building new modules, they want to reuse the Russian Orbital Segment of the ISS for their “new” space station. Nevermind that the core of the Russian segment is decades old, and the Zvezda module is increasingly leaky. Also, the Zarya module is US property.
To be fair, the Nauka laboratory module and Prichal docking module *are* relatively new–to the ISS anyway. Much of Nauka was built in the 1990s, but it wasn’t completed, launched, and docked to the ISS until 2020 (and the latter not without unplanned excitement).
TvTreeHanger on
Sure. Lets look at some numbers, shall we? Right now about 8% of Russias GDP is being used for the war in Ukraine. That is insane. It gets worse, thats near 40% of the entire Russian Federal budget.
Okay, so build it when the war is over.. Except you cant. The war in Ukraine has hollowed out the Russian economy, it will need to continue spending on defense for quite some time to come in for a soft landing.
Okay, so wait a bit longer.. Sure, you can, but Russia is also going to be dealing with rebuilding its infrastructure that Ukraine is systematically destroying, with no end in sight.
Okay, so wait a bit longer.. Sure, but now the Russian demographics are totally shit. They were shit before the war, but now you are likely looking at worsening demographics even before the war, and now after the war, by times its over, you will likely be dealing with 2 Million dead, wounded, or missing Russian soldiers. The dead are dead, as are likely the missing.. but the wounded? Thats a drag on the economy for years to come.
Okay, but surely they will come out of it then. No, doubt it. The U.S. may try to trade with them up until Trump is out of office, but that will then come to an end. Europe is done with them, and now China and India can basically extort whatever they want from Russia as they are in a desperate spot.
Long story short, Russia doesnt have the economy to do this, and wont for a very long time.
jsc010-1 on
Last time I checked, Russia is practically broke. Who’s going to pay for this? Do they even still the technology and capabilities? There aren’t even any Ukrainian territories up there for them to invade.
frameddummy on
My local high school has a better chance of putting up a space station than Russia does.
takesthebiscuit on
Mmm old bits of rotting ISS?
***Yoink***
swiftwin on
No shit.
Russia is no longer a global power. It hasn’t been since the breakup of the USSR. It has a fraction of its population. A fraction of its GDP. An economy smaller than Italy. They’ve been able to coast off of stuff designed and built in the USSR, but that stuff is aging out, and they can’t afford new things. That country needs to come to terms with that fact.
sesamesnapsinhalf on
Have an astronaut “fall out of a window?”
Marsbar3000 on
Annex Tiangong and hold a referendum?
Economy_Link4609 on
Well, on the plus side – it’s a glorious day for Kazakhstan I guess. More years of Russia paying to use Baikonur.
HughJorgens on
How are they gonna get it into space, stand on each others shoulders?
ItspronouncedGruh-an on
The most Russia thing ever? So announce something that sounds groundbreaking and then at best built a Potemkin village version of the thing they announced?
somedave on
Seems they spent all their money sending people to die in Ukraine.
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Slam it into a foreign country and claim it was self-defence?
You mean the lead pockets all the money and they “smekalka” something together with cheese and chewing gum leading to the deaths of several thousand?
Serve folks fine vodka on tap?
Make a great public display of the first module which then turns out to be painted wood?
Sacrifice a million of their citizens for a chance at success?
Let’s hope its better than their AI humanoid program.
Space Station? They can’t even launch to the ISS anymore.
How do you make an entire space station accidentally fall out of an eighth story window?
Borrow it from China/NK and watch it run off into the woods?
Look at what someone else is doing, make it 5times bigger, and watch it fail in all possible ways?
Declare a 3 day special military operation for getting to the moon, and never get anywhere near achieving their goals while killing 100s of thousands of their young males in their attempts?
So they’re planning to repurpose the ISS core modules for their new station, even though the ISS core modules are themselves repurposed Salyut modules, lol
I had to read the entire thing to find out that it wasn’t:
build a vodka still in their space station
Very disappointed
Brought to you by the geniuses that designed the Lada.
Not have it launch? Cause they cant launch anything for a long time.
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Fuck Russia and its’ bullshit.
They’ll defene**s**trate* someone out of its window?
So they plan on reusing the aging, already over-their-time-limit, heavily fatigue cycled Russian segment of the ISS and attach their shiny new modules to it? That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. I also seem to recall the Russian segment is the main cause of concern for the increasing leakage measured in the ISS.
Instead of building new modules, they want to reuse the Russian Orbital Segment of the ISS for their “new” space station. Nevermind that the core of the Russian segment is decades old, and the Zvezda module is increasingly leaky. Also, the Zarya module is US property.
To be fair, the Nauka laboratory module and Prichal docking module *are* relatively new–to the ISS anyway. Much of Nauka was built in the 1990s, but it wasn’t completed, launched, and docked to the ISS until 2020 (and the latter not without unplanned excitement).
Sure. Lets look at some numbers, shall we? Right now about 8% of Russias GDP is being used for the war in Ukraine. That is insane. It gets worse, thats near 40% of the entire Russian Federal budget.
Okay, so build it when the war is over.. Except you cant. The war in Ukraine has hollowed out the Russian economy, it will need to continue spending on defense for quite some time to come in for a soft landing.
Okay, so wait a bit longer.. Sure, you can, but Russia is also going to be dealing with rebuilding its infrastructure that Ukraine is systematically destroying, with no end in sight.
Okay, so wait a bit longer.. Sure, but now the Russian demographics are totally shit. They were shit before the war, but now you are likely looking at worsening demographics even before the war, and now after the war, by times its over, you will likely be dealing with 2 Million dead, wounded, or missing Russian soldiers. The dead are dead, as are likely the missing.. but the wounded? Thats a drag on the economy for years to come.
Okay, but surely they will come out of it then. No, doubt it. The U.S. may try to trade with them up until Trump is out of office, but that will then come to an end. Europe is done with them, and now China and India can basically extort whatever they want from Russia as they are in a desperate spot.
Long story short, Russia doesnt have the economy to do this, and wont for a very long time.
Last time I checked, Russia is practically broke. Who’s going to pay for this? Do they even still the technology and capabilities? There aren’t even any Ukrainian territories up there for them to invade.
My local high school has a better chance of putting up a space station than Russia does.
Mmm old bits of rotting ISS?
***Yoink***
No shit.
Russia is no longer a global power. It hasn’t been since the breakup of the USSR. It has a fraction of its population. A fraction of its GDP. An economy smaller than Italy. They’ve been able to coast off of stuff designed and built in the USSR, but that stuff is aging out, and they can’t afford new things. That country needs to come to terms with that fact.
Have an astronaut “fall out of a window?”
Annex Tiangong and hold a referendum?
Well, on the plus side – it’s a glorious day for Kazakhstan I guess. More years of Russia paying to use Baikonur.
How are they gonna get it into space, stand on each others shoulders?
The most Russia thing ever? So announce something that sounds groundbreaking and then at best built a Potemkin village version of the thing they announced?
Seems they spent all their money sending people to die in Ukraine.