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Russian unmanned craft crashes into moon

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by tampagtr, Aug 20, 2023.

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  1. Aug 21, 2023 #21
    ncargat1

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    That is impressive long range planning (yes, I did get your humor, I do not think you were serious) considering that that the Luna 25 mission plan started in 1998 and the craft construction began in 2011. That is a serious long-term deception in the making.
     
  2. Aug 21, 2023 #22
    uftaipan

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    Well, Putin is playing the long game.
     
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  3. Aug 21, 2023 #23
    OklahomaGator

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    Maybe Ukraine shot it down? :p:p:p
     
  4. Aug 21, 2023 #24
    StrangeGator

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    And Spock. “Scottie, beam me up the rest of the minyan.”
     
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  5. Aug 21, 2023 #25
    tampagtr

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    I only learned of this a few years ago, but Nimoy hails from a very noble lineage, a family that experienced some of the worst of the 20th century

    Profile : Nimoy Will 'Never Forget'

    Nimoy, 59, remembers the Holocaust. While Mermelstein was interned in a work camp, Nimoy was reading the headlines of newspapers he sold on the streets of Boston. Nimoy’s parents, both Jewish, were Russian immigrants.

    “My parents were involved in gathering up people who came from Europe and getting them together regularly to put together care packages of food and clothing to send to Europe,” said Nimoy, who produced “Never Forget” with his partner, Robert Radnitz. “I saw that activity. I was surrounded by it.”

    The fact-based film, co-starring Dabney Coleman and Blythe Danner, tells the story of how Mermelstein was challenged by “revisionist” historians who denied the historical validity of the Holocaust. They defied Mermelstein to prove in court that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz.

    Leonard Nimoy - Wikipedia

    Leonard Simon Nimoy was born on March 26, 1931, in an Irish[19] section of West End[20][21] of Boston, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrants from Iziaslav, Ukraine.[22][23][24] His parents left Iziaslav separately, his father first walking over the border into Poland while his mother and grandmother were smuggled out of the Soviet Union in a horse-drawn wagon by hiding under bales of hay
     
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  6. Aug 21, 2023 #26
    tilly

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  7. Aug 22, 2023 #27
    G8trGr8t

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    true to form, another failed leader has a sudden illness. who would want to be in charge of anything in Russia if this is the end result for each failure. Who knew that being thrown off a balcony could cause a sharp deterioration in your health

    Mission Failure: Russian Astronomer Hospitalized Under Mysterious Circumstances After Putin's Luna-25 Spacecraft Crashes Into Moon (msn.com)

    One of Vladimir Putin’s top astronomers and Moon scientists was rushed to the hospital this weekend shortly after the Russian leader’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon, RadarOnline.com has learned.

    Mikhail Marov was reportedly taken to the hospital on Saturday due to a sharp deterioration in his health following the failure of the mission.
     
  8. Aug 22, 2023 #28
    sierragator

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    I bet people are rushing to move to Russia in droves. What an absolute paradise that place must be. :rolleyes:
     
  9. Aug 22, 2023 #29
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    No volunteers I guess.
     
  10. Aug 22, 2023 #30
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  11. Aug 22, 2023 #31
    ncargat1

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    Probably still better than the State Penitentiary?
     
  12. Aug 22, 2023 #32
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    Many suggest that U.S. capability is in decline because we care too much about being woke. Seemed fair to call into question whether the reverse applies to Russia.
     
  13. Aug 22, 2023 #33
    duggers_dad

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    Hubris erodes the memory of our having to rely on Russian taxi service, to the ISS, for a decade after the abandonment of a program which lost two space shuttles and 14 astronauts.
     
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