gandhium | 7 years ago | on: India will overtake the US economy by 2030
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gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Cyber Pearl Harbor
> The evidence is shaky at best
I think nothing will please the 'believers' except the personal Putin's apology. And of course they might say that was just his double speaking.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]
> it's debatable on whether or not those bombings did indeed cause the surrender of Japan
They were specifically mentioned in emperor's address. Yes, they caused the surrender.
> Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military targets
They were military targets. There was army HQ, troops stationed there, factories which were producing military goods.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (2012)
> We were not producing commodities for the sake of profit.
Definitely. Apple for sure is a non-profitable charity.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
It's not interceptor, it's a multi-role stealth fighter.
And still I'd say - yes, it's better.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Don’t Worry About Deepfakes. Worry About Why People Fall for Them
No, they weren't accounted since US Army found them in all the strange places.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
> The similarity between these and NASA's shuttle is stronger than I remember.
Because USSR decided to copy Space Shuttle (instead of another competing Soviet-produced approach).
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
No, China putting their taikonauts to space using chinese rockets.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
F-35 don't have any Russian and Chinese counterparts. They're all in design stage.
China may get to the mass-produced stage, but that's stil debatable, since they have issues with their engines.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Don’t Worry About Deepfakes. Worry About Why People Fall for Them
So, about 5 thousand chemical ammunition that were found there are not WMD?
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: 'Dying All Tensed-Up': 30 Years Since the Troubled Secret Mission of STS-27
It wasn't ahead, but on the contrary it was behind.
They didn't managed to add engines to their copy and US launcher had reusable parts, but "Energiya" was strictly for single-time use.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he saw himself
> with mortality rates under 10%
More than 10%, and much more in some places or during some periods.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
Yes, USSR invented stealth, internet, iphone, google and whatnot.
Ok, on the serious side - US obtained that design in joint agreement with a huge financial boon for YAK bureau to develop another plane for Russia.
Guess what - nothing from Yak design went into F-35 and nothing was produced in Russia by Yak.
Coincidence? I think not(c).
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
So, in which conflict it was proved to be better?
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
"From 1969 the SEAM was incorporated in the F-4J and enabled the missile to be locked on a target off boresight slaving the missile's seeker head to the aircraft radar. "
1969 was way before MiG-29 first flight.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
> Flying and improving Soyuz (especially through the tough times of 199x and beginning of 200x) is definitely a success
Let's not forget that they survived those 'tough times' with generous US financing.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
> My first thought on the title of the article was "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"
Problem is - it's broke already. In all means - sloppy quality, price hikes, political bullshit with 'russkiy mir'...
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
> IR-missile targeting on the MIG-29 (it took a while for the US AIM-9 to catch up)
AIM-9L (first type with IR/Laser) started producing in 1977. First MiG-29 flight was in 1977 (and I highly doubt that they had IR-missile targeting at that time).
Where's 'took a while' actually?
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: Why does America still use Soyuz rockets to put its astronauts in space?
One of the Buran designers openly admitted that they were forced to copy Shuttle since it was 'already working'.
gandhium | 7 years ago | on: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)
You can call them anti-Trump as well.
And they have to serve jail time in Russia, btw.
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I can remember similar predictions about Japan and... let's say they didn't make it.