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2023-08-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian astronomer who advised Putin's failed Luna-25 mission to the Moon is rushed to hospital over 'sharp deterioration in his health' - after unmanned spacecraft CRASHED

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-21 00:01|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 The culprit???

Posted by Deadeye Ebbosing4813 2023-08-21 00:51|| 2023-08-21 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Russians aren't very big on testing. Did they even do full mission run throughs and verification while the lander was in the lab?

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-08-21 01:02|| 2023-08-21 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, we've had poisonings, falls from high places, and helicopter crashes.
Any thoughts on spontanious human combustion making a comeback?

Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-21 08:09|| 2023-08-21 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 He's over ninety (90!), good grief, people that old do that.

Posted by magpie 2023-08-21 08:52|| 2023-08-21 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 90 years old...yeah, it probably wouldn't take much.

BTW, we sure don't hear much about that Sputnik V Fauci Flu vaccine, do we?

Maybe it is a double-edged sword. If a rousing success, the west (Pfizer & Moderna) would not want us to hear about it. If it was just as bad a Pfizer and Moderna, the west (Pfizer & Moderna) would not want us to hear about it.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-08-21 08:56|| 2023-08-21 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 "The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon"

In other news, lunar seismometers report upon impact the Moon went "BONG..." and observers speculate, a hard candy shell.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-21 08:57|| 2023-08-21 08:57|| Front Page Top

#7 "The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit..."

Sounds like much of the halls of Congress

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-08-21 08:59|| 2023-08-21 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't the point of an orbit predictability?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-21 09:17|| 2023-08-21 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Just remember how range safety works in Russia!

Otto : [Pulls out a card] I'm a party member. Paid up 'til December. They need me there. I'm a missile scientist.
Peripetchikoff : Ah, that is one thing where we're ahead of America. In Cape Canaveral if missile goes wrong, they press special button and Pow! It blows up. But in Russia, we have two buttons.
Otto : [Smiling] Two buttons?
Peripetchikoff : One to blow up missile, one to blow up scientist.

Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2023-08-21 09:22|| 2023-08-21 09:22|| Front Page Top

#10 He's over ninety (90!), good grief, people that old do that.

See Biden.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-21 10:27|| 2023-08-21 10:27|| Front Page Top

#11 It still exists. It's just in a lot of pieces.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-08-21 15:21|| 2023-08-21 15:21|| Front Page Top

#12 All just "western media fairytales."

/sarc

/heh...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-21 15:41|| 2023-08-21 15:41|| Front Page Top

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