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Russia Working on Soyuz Replacement
Buran writes "The Associated Press is reporting that RKK Energia is starting design work on a new manned spacecraft able to carry a crew of six (or more) to the International Space Station. The vehicle may have a reusable crew module (current Soyuz TMA and Progress vehicles are disposable) and would theoretically finally allow ISS crew size to increase, as the current limiting factor is the capacity of the Soyuz spacecraft, designed in the early 1960s for manned lunar flights. (While Soyuz never flew to the Moon, its Zond circumlunar variant did so several times, and Soyuz and Progress craft have been resupplying various space stations for over three decades.) It will be interesting to see how this develops, as at present ISS crews spend more time maintaining the station than they do performing research, due to the fact that the station wasn't designed to operate with a crew as small as two or three people."
I, for one, am tired of everyone comparing Free Software to Communism. Windows World - Central control: a tyranny GNU+linux - Distributed control: a democracy. Its as simple as that.
The US is scared about many of the countries getting WMD because they don't necessarily care about their own continued existence more than the destruction of the USA. MAD worked with the USSR because, ultimately, the USSR cared less about the existence of the USA than their own existence.
There are factions in, say, Iran, that would happily give nukes to terrorist networks, even in the face of us possibly carpet-nuking the country. That's what we're scared of.
I don't read AC A human right
Same Joke (basically)
Damn, same comment after smar-alec remark even. I think this Yakov Smirnoff Revival thing is really starting to take off.
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That's because Yakov Smirnoff Nostalgia Fever is kicking in now.
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