Oh wow. Think of all the kids that would run amok with that many aisles. It’ll just be very strange for sure if anything like that came to fruition. I imagine there’ll be plenty of mockups first to test out with ordinary folks to see how they adapt to the difference.

cruise missile launches sure look rather neat in the dark. Wonder if people on board get an opportunity to get a chance to watch it (I mean folks who’re normally say not near that part of the ship)

Ruddy doomsday barbershop quartet almost clad in their khaki joshing about while a goddamn nuke goes off above them. Man, did folks have a laissez faire attitude back in the day

It was the lunar rover in another form that was then seen on the charred roof of reactor number 4 in Chernobyl to help with clear up.

the Science Museum in London has a special space exhibition going on and Valentina Tereshkova herself was there a few weeks ago to have a look. How awesome would that have been? Just casually strolling through the museum, bumping into the first woman in space.

Leonov recently did a BBC documentary joking about the experience. I guess you’re allowed to do that if you’re such a badass grampa. However in the same documentary he speaks of the immense impact Yuri had on the tight knit community of cosmonauts at the time and the bond they shared. I wouldn’t take anything away…

I’m so glad someone mentioned this. Whilst I won’t take anything away from Ed White I remember a BBC documentary where Leonov was joking about how his gloves expanded and he basically disobeyed his instructions to bleed out some air so he could fit back inside.

What a douchnozzle. The nerve to bother Buzz, I’m so glad he socked him right in the kisser, shoulda quipped something about the G-force of his fist.

I like how different the Russian space modules look to American ones, what with all their clean cylinders

I thought the nuclear bomber was the closest we’ve come to putting nuclear propulsion in the skies

part of me just wishes this got to work, just the once even. Heck what I’d give to see some zany billionaire fund this to lob some vanity project of his into the stars (maybe just so I could see something similar to the Saturn 5 in my lifetime)

With that many people in a row I dare to think how the poor cabin crew would handle a mere request for say nuts, let alone deal with an evacuation.

Oh, I see, so the current rage with wide body aircraft do come with their own problems (though going by what you say they’ll likely be negligible).

again sticking with the SLBM analogy it makes sense that VLS missiles get a similar leg up (at least to my mind).

Ah, so the thing is, many industry folks agree that this lack of price control was a means to curb US shale oil growth market share wise and make production via means such as fracking uneconomic. In a way you are right, if the prices are above the threshold value for production costs using fracking, then yes, it would…

Alright, I sort of see what you mean. From what I remember of seeing the Russian cruisers fire their missiles the lid pops off the away goes the missile. Does it get an extra push, say, similar to how underwater SLBMs do?

It’s not quite the fracking that’s caused the depressed prices per se. Ultimately the low prices are a result of record breaking production in many oil producing places. Simply put there’s more supply than there is demand. Heck Libya is still churning out oil at a rate analysts hadn’t accounted for. The clearest…

Man I was just scrolling past that image and I swear I got a mild headache like yo do when you look at an optical illusion.

I’ve been wondering about this for a while. Whilst NATO countries might view Russian involvement with a very weary eye I have this suspicion that the gung ho deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia would get his keffiyeh in a knot at this and would definitely be shaking his fists somewhere in a ludicrous palace (ie, he’d…

Ooh this is a much better angle. So it is. Does look like a long ship from this angle. Interesting how nowadays the VLS units are up front with the bridge further back, whereas here it seems to be the opposite arrangement. The visual bulk is all up front.