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Soviet Moon Rocket

Posted by michael on from the to-the-moon,-yuri dept.

TestBoy writes "There is a decent article about the Soviet Union's moon rocket and why it was doomed to fail. From one of the pictures on the website, you realize how large just one of its multiple engines were."

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  1. No, you're wrong... by albat0r · · Score: 0, Troll

    Size does matter.

    Like when you meet a new girl... her size does matter!

  2. Failed? by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 0, Troll
    What makes you think they failed? The rockets pictured never flew real missions--they were there to misdirect 1950's America. The real missions, of which Gargarin was only one, actually landed on the dark side of the moon but because it was a few days later than "The Eagle" landed they didn't publicize it. Would you?

    Not surprising that most of you don't know this I suppose. They don't teach Lysenko's radical reforumation of Mendelism (aka genetics) either.

    1. Re:Failed? by spicyjeff · · Score: 0, Troll

      And you have links or books or paper titles and authors to back up your baseless statements?

  3. Western "great powers" shown to be fools yet again by theonomist · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is there no end to the Western faith in "big science" and mammoth, wasteful works of useless technology? In September, we saw how easily all their flashy trash can be destroyed by good men with a moral purpose. Here, we see the poor Russians throwing billions of dollars into space for no reason at all.

    The West is sick. They've destroyed themselves with materialism and injustice. Russia crumbled due to its excesses and brutalities, and the United States and Europe will soon follow. Their economic systems are fragile fictions based on international banking and their people are soft, aimless cowards. There's no hope for them.

    All we can do is laugh, and pity them as they vanish from the international scene.

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  4. Re:Froydian Engine Sizes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You think that's big, look at the venturi on this baby!



    (I wonder what Freud would have said about that? Probably "Gaaaaah!")

  5. Re:The Mishin Mission by dfenstrate · · Score: 2, Troll

    Looks like a big model rocket to me, not an attempt at faking a moon landing.

    Unless you think that the russians had 2000 model year mazda pickups in the 1970's, cause that's whats in the background.

    You must be kidding, because no one is that dumb.

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  6. Re:The Mishin Mission by downix · · Score: 2, Troll

    A few flaws with that theory:

    1) the 1999 Mazda pickup truck in the background
    2) the mountain in the background is located in Utah

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  7. Re:Western "great powers" shown to be fools yet ag by bryan1945 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you people want to see how dumb this fuckhead is, go check his web link. Of course you could also figure out that this guy is a crackhead just by the "soft, aimless cowards" remark. Interesting that the US is the only country that has never been successfully invaded....

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