“Though officially I was not apart of any groups or organizations there are many I support, I would even go so far as to say I did it for Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram, The Base, and North Korea.”
-lol Did the FBI put this in?
If the FBI put it in, it would have been references to BLM, BDS, antifa, PSL and Black Panthers instead.
The second will be Mengzhou-1, which will carry cargo to the Tiangong Space station in September.
This is the launch I’m most excited about this year. For those unfamiliar, until now China has been flying crew on a Soyuz-derivative called Shenzhou. Mengzhou is its from-scratch replacement. It will be the first operational flight of a clean sheet design crewed spacecraft outside the US or USSR/Russia. All the test flights so far have gone as planned.
I’m very curious about CNSA’s progress on lunar surface suits. I think that’s going to be the real sticking point in modern lunar missions beyond a boots-and-flags Apollo-type mission. The Apollo program’s A7L suits took way more damage from that wretched lunar dust than the mission planners expected. They would never have been safe for long-term use at a base.
We’ll probably never know for another 50 years, but I’m wondering if CIA leadership is now as high on their own supply as other US government agencies. Once upon a time the TLAs were run by realists who understood that the propaganda was just a tool.
the police band
Did Flavio say to the protesters "don’t stand so close to me?
Italy also has tons of structural issues like lack of a scientifically educated workforce
For anyone familiar with the history of science this is frankly heartbreaking to read. Lists of accomplishments in astronomy and physics in particular will have a ton of Italian names.
I agree that it’s not a close analogy on the material conditions. I was thinking more about the mindset of careful planning and acting with discipline.
“Former Venezuelan leader” is a funny way to say “elected Venezuelan president”.
Their vicious regime strongman vs our trusted regional partner.
Well, it’s not a job, it’s an adventure.
They don’t need to import shit, they’re actually ahead of most of the world in this regard
I keep thinking about Terminus from Asimov’s Foundation works. An isolated group of scientists and engineers and technicians, surrounded by dangerous adversaries, having to get really clever with what limited resources they had.
It’s always fun to go into some ghoul’s wikipedia entry and discover that they’re even worse people than one expected them to be, even after wikipedia’s typical whitewashing of ghouls’ resumes. These are just a few of the highlights that caught my eye and sometimes dropped my jaw.
He was chief international economist at Bear Stearns from 1993 to 2002, and chief economist from 2002 to the firm’s collapse in 2008.
In August 2007, before the housing market collapse that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, Malpass wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that “Housing and debt markets are not that big a part of the U.S. economy, or of job creation … the housing- and debt-market corrections will probably add to the length of the U.S. economic expansion.”
His September 1, 2016 op-ed in The New York Times, “Why This Economy Needs Donald Trump”, described potential faster growth through a policy upheaval covering economic policy, taxes, trade, and regulations.
And not only defunding, but specifically defunding the Highway Trust Fund which helps maintain road infrastructure.
The constant “But what if we need to go to war with China?” whining from American establishment libs is hilarious. If they can’t take on Iran, they’re not taking on China.
Tianzhou has a really interesting design lineage. It’s a descendent of the original space station module design, the USSR’s Salyut.
The USSR knocked it out of the park with the basic Salyut design. Small enough to fit on medium-lift rockets, big enough to be useful, a docking port at both ends so that modules can be daisy-chained, and a modular interior design that can be adapted for many purposes. Many of the ISS modules are Salyut derivatives.
That said the Cargo Dragon can do one thing that Tianzhou or Progress can’t, returning experiments back to Earth safely. It splashes down intact for recovery and re-use just like the Crew Dragon.
Sounds like a tripwire force to me.
I have little doubt that China could ramp up mass production of rockets rapidly if necessary. I think they’re just waiting to see which of their many new rocket designs now in R&D and testing are going to prove to be their next cost-effective workhorses before ramping up production rates.
Given that potentially-exposed American passengers have already returned home, and that American governments at all levels can be guaranteed to make the absolute dumbest decisions possible in a pandemic situation, and that the partially-American-hosted World Cup is coming up soon, and that covid-19 has taken a figurative wrecking ball to everyone’s immune systems, I’m sure we have nothing to worry about.
It’s an interesting time in US spaceflight. There’s only one reliable and readily-available rocket certified to fly military and surveillance satellites, the Falcon 9 and its Heavy variant. Everything else is either retired (Delta IV), about to be retired and no longer certified (Atlas V), or has an unresolved problem with booster nozzles exploding mid-flight resulting in NSSL launches being delayed until the problem is fixed (Vulcan Centaur).
This is actually a much bigger problem for the US government than it sounds. Lots of NSSL-cert launches (especially the surveillance satellites) require that the carried satellite be kept vertical at all times while on Earth for lots of important engineering reasons. The Falcon 9/Heavy can’t do that, those rockets must be transported to the launchpad horizontally. Frankly China and Russia are already in a much better situation than the US when it comes to launching military and surveillance satellites.
Don’t forget the upcoming hantavirus pandemic!
That suit looks rather like the Soviet/Russian Orlan suit. Seamless except for the backpack entry port. I tried looking to see if Wangyu is built similar but I couldn’t find any relevant info.