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Energia Reveals New Russian Spacecraft
colonist writes "Russian space officials unveiled a full-scale model of the Kliper spaceship. If funding is provided, Kliper will replace the Soyuz space capsule as Russia's human space vehicle. The spaceship, designed by RKK Energia, is twice the size of the Soyuz and will carry a crew of six. It has two main parts: a reusable re-entry craft with a lifting body design, and an orbital module. Like the Soyuz, it has a rocket to pull the spaceship away from the launch vehicle in an emergency. See this photo gallery, Encyclopedia Astronautica and RussianSpaceWeb.com."
'See this photo gallery'
He just had to tempt the fates, didn't he?
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The ultimate test of the Russian space program: can it stand up to an attempted Slashdotting?
Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.
What do you mean? We're exploring Iraq.
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Russian space officials unveiled a full-scale model of the Kliper spaceship
The KDE team announced they will sue the Russian government over the use of the "klipper" name, which, as everybody knows, is the name of the KDE clipboard. An outraged free software community is currently demonstrating and marching on Capitol Hill and the Kremlin to demand that justice be meeted out of the space agency. In a gesture of goodwill, the Russian space agency has decided to rename their spacecraft "firefoks". News at 11...
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Exploring or exploding Iraq?
you misspelled "exploiting"
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Is it a system requirement that all new manned spacecraft have to look like killer whales?
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Thanks to the Slashdotting, the bandwidth bill alone will set their space program back decades...
is when he says neither the US nor Europe have anything like it.
And I'm thinking to myself, its a MODEL you assclown, you don't have it either... otherwise I'd have a B-17 bomber.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Sheesh, with a cool name like that, no wonder my Lethargia Rocket Company isn't doing too well.
Excellent point. A rock in space, Iraq in the desert...same diff. :)
Even in Star Trek, Americans don't rule the world. The Vulcans rule the world - they're massively overrepresented in Starfleet high command and in the Federation government, every time we see the top brass there are pointy ears everywhere. But we notice that no Starfleet ship ever has more than one or two Vulcans on board, and the occasional representative of one of the other Federation races. What's going on here?
Answer: the Vulcans, nervous about their Klingon and Romulan neighbours, found a culture just emerging from pre-warp savagery and made contact. Since then they've been quietly manipulating Earth, making sure it's always humans in the front line doing the fighting and dying and Vulcans in High Command, and placing Vulcan agents on all starships to ensure political control of the fleet, like the KGB used to do with the Soviet navy.
Of course, humans aren't stupid and a lot of them have caught on to what the Vulcans are up to. So what have they done about it? Answer: exactly what the Vulcans did, on a smaller scale. Notice how not only are Starfleet crews predominantly human, but predominantly American? No coincidence. And the occasional Scottish engineer or suspiciously English-sounding French captain? Yep... political control again.
Note that the Federation government is based in Paris (IIRC), while Starfleet Command is in San Francisco. Who's giving the orders, and who's doing the fighting? Right.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Noooooo....
That's what they WANT you to think.
Those are really the new and improved Mark III Ion Cannons which are disguised to look like mounting points for the emergency escape system.
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kliper? i can't find that under my kde menu.. can someone give me an ftp address?