• The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So they plan to invade whatever station is up there at that time and try to claim as their own?

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sadly, most of the skilled workers needed for this project were pressed into military service, and got blown up in Ukraine.

    • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Or sent to prison for collaborating, like that scientist who worked on commercial hypersonic airplanes.

      • Aux@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Or just packed their shit and ran away as far as they could. A lot of great IT professionals I know started leaving Russia after 2014. After 2022 literally everyone I know left Russia. Putin has fucked Russia real hard…

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    1 year ago

    Nice aim. Also nice aim to take Ukraine in 3 days. I aim to be successful in 2027 but we all know I’m going to continue to be sad, alone and a faillure.

  • Jay@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    That’ll be the day tank turrets can fly… oh wait…

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    The ISS is ageing and Tiangong is still quite small, so this is badly needed. Unfortunately in the current political climate it is unlikely that Western countries will want to join this project, so Russia might have issues funding the entire station.

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      1 year ago

      Not to mention, they’re gonna have a hell of a time building anything like that without western electronic components, because I don’t see that faucet being turned back on anytime soon.

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        To be fair they’d only need -70 -80 tech, but I don’t see that happening with that tech either because they have become too corrupt as a country, russians do no longer believe in the glory/superiority of Russia.

        And obviously, a space station from the eighties wouldn’t help much ofc.

    • Nemeski@lemm.eeOP
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      Constantly causing brain drains will probably not help either.

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      That’s kind of the point. Russia already announced withdrawing from ISS and said they would build their own. The Soviets did build a couple small space stations back in the day, leading up to ISS so in theory they just need to dust off the plans and gather any spare parts. Even if that was it, I can’t see this happening

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        Okay Igor, where are the plans?

        Igor?

        Oh yeah I sent Igor to gulag, and then to Ukraine.

        Vanya, where are the plans?

        Vanya?

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        If I remember correctly, the Soviet space programme used to always build a backup. If the original worked, the backup would be maintained and then used on another mission, or used to train cosmonauts. So Mir’s backup became the ISS’s core module, and so on. So they should have some modules already built, and of course they have launch vehicles. The problem will be funding.

        Anyway, NASA + ESA + Japan + Canada are planning another space station, but in lunar orbit.

        • Aux@lemmy.world
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          It is most likely everything was scavenged and sold. There are videos of a current state of Buran, it’s pretty much a skeleton of itself as everything valuable got stolen.

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      Regardless of how many holes, I’m sure they will still be round, and we’ll still be trying to put square-shaped astronauts through them.

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    Or someone could just colorize and upscale that photo of Komarov’s charred corpse and call it a day before anyone gets hurt

    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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      More like “election coming up soon, need to look like a strong, innovative leader of a successful country”