It’s true. They also issue a pistol as part of the kit and as far I know still so, but it is apparently optional and most cosmonauts choose to leave it behind.
Space gun control is a thing: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-i-stop-cosmonauts-carrying-guns
Thinking this is Reddit and taking the rules of a meme community seriously make you a real winner. ;-)
That story is apocryphal.
Pencils aren’t suitable in space because the last thing you want are little wood and graphite shavings floating around the capsule.
Both the US and Russia used grease pens.
The Fischer space pen was developed by a private company with no public investment and was marketed to the government and public.
Protip: Read the article before you out yourself as a moron for not understanding that they are talking about structural features of melting polar ice.
many cultures, include some of those listed, have no-bake cheesecakes that are set in the fridge.
In the UK “normal” cheesecake is not baked. It is also common not to bake cheesecakes in the Netherlands. The no-bake cheesecake is actually pretty common in the US, in fact the recipe is historically on the side of most containers of Philadelphia Cream Cheese, called “icebox cheesecake” since the 1950s.
Russian capsules have returned to land since their very first launches.
The decision has more to do with geopolitics than physics. Russia does not have a robust Navy with access to equatorial waters on which to land a spacecraft, the US does. Given the historical accuracy of landing a capsule it is actually a hell of a lot easier to drive a big ship to the eventual location than it is to drive a big truck into the middle of a desert. The reason western nations return capsules to the sea is because its easier to recover them there.
Both approaches have technical challenges. Returning to land requires a slower landing speed (although as a percentage of the starting velocity of a spacecraft its a pretty insignificant difference) and landing on the sea requires the carrying of flotation devices and designing a capsule with buoyancy in mind.
In other words this post is completely inaccurate.
Putting the oven right up against the fridge is the real problem here.
Isn’t this one of those states that instructed people to report all their immigrant neighbors?
I guess they didn’t mean white immigrants.
If anyone is curious here’s a fairly exhaustive description of the radio situation for this flight:
Steam is a great example of how a privately held company can out compete publicly traded and venture capital funded corps.
It can take greater risks and can fund initiatives that won’t pay out within the current quarter. The steam deck is a great example of that. A device that no other corporation thought that we wanted and that required like a decade of working with open source linux projects to make happen, that isn’t something that EA would have been able to manage.
They are good enough to see points of light in a black sky.
It’s not about age. It’s about connecting their existing profile to your currently untracked activity.
Not as old as the person that thought of forming Voltron first.
Chickens do not have udders.
Hilarious that this company is now named after a failed product. It would be like if Ford changed it’s name to Pinto.
I’m not what condition for victory would be achieved by nuking Washington DC for anyone. Seems like that would be a win for the people opposed to the existing government to me.
The US has 300 million people in it. If even one percent of them decided to pick up a brick and go to Washington DC there isn’t an army on earth that could stop them.
Revolutions are fought by a tiny minority against another tiny minority while everyone else just tries to stay alive.
Point is, the side that wins is generally the side that has the most people in the right place.
No one really goes to Waffle House on purpose.
That is almost literally the conceptual mechanism being used here.
Some philologist is currently writing a thesis on the development of emoji “accents” on social media.