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Russia Loses Inflatable Spacecraft

Posted by timothy on from the last-place-you-look dept.

Treeluvinhippy writes: "This article is a little light on details, but it looks like the Russians lost the Demonstrator-2 spacecraft. For those who don't know this craft was the inflatable launched from a submarine. Slashdot has the scoop of the launch right here"

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  1. Uh-oh by e03179 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My car insurance company will never believe me when I tell them that I ran into a Russian space craft.

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    1. Re:Uh-oh by SEWilco · · Score: 3, Funny

      Did your airbag inflate faster than the spacecraft deflated?

  2. Where was it aimed? by Grip3n · · Score: 4, Funny

    "On Friday, Russia's Ryazan nuclear sub launched Demonstrator-2 on a converted Volna SS-N-18 intercontinental ballistic missile"

    Have they tried looking around the Pentagon to see if it landed there? How about the White House? NORAD perhaps? Sometimes those guys forget to take the target off the defaults you know...

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  3. Something odd was reported in Roswell NM by infonography · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course details are sketchy.... Nobody is buying the Weather Ballon theory this time.

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  4. Re:$10 says... by MADCOWbeserk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then again, maybe their aim is so off that we would have all survived a WW3

    This just in, Canada brutalized by Russian nuclear weapons... 10 dead. Film @ 11...

  5. Somewhere on a primitive island.. by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. the natives are worshipping their newly discovered floating God.

    Rogue members have tried unsucessfully to rid their new God, but the rocks and sticks they throw at it magically bounce off and repel back.

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