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20th August 2023, 03:09 AM | #1 |
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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
Special lunar operation successfully intercepted the moon
It went in to rinse cycle too early https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66562629 |
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20th August 2023, 03:30 AM | #2 |
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20th August 2023, 03:32 AM | #3 |
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20th August 2023, 03:36 AM | #4 |
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To be fair Russia has landed a number of times and successfully returned lunar samples
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20th August 2023, 04:55 AM | #5 |
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20th August 2023, 06:00 AM | #6 |
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According to the rabid flat-earthers, there is no "space". The moon hangs, Truman-like, from some rigging beneath the crystal dome. So all these "moon landings" are CGI.
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20th August 2023, 06:26 AM | #7 |
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It was a legitimate target as the light of the moon also shibes on Ukraine.
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20th August 2023, 06:45 AM | #8 |
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20th August 2023, 09:56 AM | #9 |
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20th August 2023, 10:54 AM | #10 |
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20th August 2023, 11:15 AM | #11 |
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20th August 2023, 11:26 AM | #12 |
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My bet was wrong - I said the Indian one would crash.
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20th August 2023, 02:04 PM | #13 |
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20th August 2023, 03:38 PM | #14 |
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It wasn't Luna's fault. She beeped.
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20th August 2023, 06:45 PM | #15 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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20th August 2023, 07:42 PM | #16 |
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20th August 2023, 09:40 PM | #17 |
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More likely it's just the normal term for this sort of thing, in the original Russian, and the cromulence is lost in translation.
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21st August 2023, 12:28 AM | #18 |
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21st August 2023, 01:00 AM | #19 |
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Counter counterpoint. The USSR was significantly larger than Russia is today, including as it did - amongst other places - Ukraine. Ukraine held a significant proportion of the USSR's manufacturing capability and natural resources. The country of Russia is much diminished since the heady days of the Soviet Union.
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21st August 2023, 02:45 AM | #20 |
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My first thought on seeing these reports yesterday was, "did it even get off the ground?"
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21st August 2023, 02:49 AM | #21 |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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21st August 2023, 04:07 AM | #22 |
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The unpowered vehicle has right of way over the powered one.
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21st August 2023, 06:04 AM | #23 |
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And there goes 50% of Russia's supply of transistors.
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21st August 2023, 06:12 AM | #24 |
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This is all I can think of whenever I hear, "cease to exist"...
From an insignificant little movie from 1953, (Jump to 3 minutes in for the line from Dr. Forester.).
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21st August 2023, 03:44 PM | #26 |
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Also used in the dialog between Kirk and the "Companion" alien in the episode "Metamorphosis." Transcript here, couldn't find a video clip. |
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