Russia seems to have lost contact with its first lunar probe in half a century

"The management team is currently analyzing the situation."

See full article...

 

[effgee]

One more piece of evidence we never had manned missions past the van Allen belt,

Spoiler: To prevent brain damage

noone would survive this, and the whole moon landings were done with Kubrick on a filmset, 2 germans carried the lies, von Braun the chief rocket scientist and Kurt Debus he was first director of Nasa/Kennedy Space Center(until 1974), both germans from Peenemünde rocket test center, both were in the Waffen SS.
And you believe still in manned moon missions?

...

o_0 ...?

PSA: Substances of this category are meant for bonding two surfaces together, not recreational inhalation. Additionally, it would seem that adding potato to the manufacturing process greatly increases the negative effects on users' health.

Не нюхайте клей, дети!

Wie bekifft kann man denn so früh am Sonntagabend sein, dass man solch einen geistigen Dünnpfiff daherlabern müsste?

 

[effgee]

... The Russian physicists and engineers were cordial and professional.

???

So were the scientists developing the Wehrmacht's "Vergeltungswaffe" in 1940. What is your point?

As a governmental agency, Roscosmos, along with its subsidiary JSC Makeyev Design Bureau, is directly involved in the development of such purely scientific achievements [*] as the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile.

Being a scientist does not absolve one of the responsibility where and for whom one works. How does that old adage go again... "cling together, swing together", no?

AP, 4/24/22: "Russian officer: [RS-28] Missile to carry several hypersonic weapons"


[* - assuming one is sufficiently brainwashed]

 

[effgee]

OK, everything has its time and Ars had its time and I have to pull myself out of it before it is wasting more of my time than I can afford to waste these days.

Ars for a long time was a sober place to discuss even complex and very difficult things. Then it became popular and basically became what Slashdot was before and now is turning into what Slashdot has become.

I turned 60 last week. I was six years old when mankind made it to the Moon, I saw this live on TV and I remember it and I only realized in the last one or two decades how much this was a thing that really set the limit of what we can do if we really try.

And now I have to see how we still fail at the simplest things, like fucking animals. Fuck all you fucking fuckers.

You think providing your age here validates your point, or rather lack thereof? If anything, that only makes it worse.

If you really were born in the early 1960s you should have a damn good idea of the tail end of 'the-world-at-large' [rightfully] despising Germany's 'old-in-the-1970s' generation for the atrocities the German government committed in their name between 1933 and 1945.

Numerically, most of those Germans left behind in what was left of their country to pick up the literal pieces post-WWII had never actively supported Hitler's NSDAP, let alone having been members thereof. Most of them didn't even fucking vote for Hitler when Germany had its last free'ish election in 1932 [*], and the NSDAP won a whopping 33% of the vote. And yet they too got lumped in with those who actively participated in Germany's monstrous actions. And rightfully so, IMO. At the numerical scale of 'state' or 'country' there absolutely is such a thing as collective guilt.

What the remaining Germans didn't understand in 1945, and what those passive 'But-I-wasn't-involved-Tovarish' Russians will most certainly fail to understand in 'n years' post Ukraine-invasion, is that they're not being held responsible for what they did or did not do in or after 2022 [**], when it was already too late to put up a meaningful resistance to Putin, but that their failure/crime occurred way before in the 1990s/early 2000s, when they had a chance to stand against totalitarianism but chose to not give a fuck instead.

And yes, standing by idly and allowing a crime to be committed right in front of you, when you could have helped/prevented it but chose not to, is a crime in any societal form worth living in.


[* - IMO, those took place on Nov. 6, 1932, since the Reichtagswahl on March 5, 1933 took place a month and a half after the Nazis took power.]
[** - or rather: 2014, if we're being precise here]

 

[effgee]

In the modern vernacular that can be simplified to “You let your ego Trump.” or simply “You Trumped.”

... or we could just adopt the German proverb: "Wenn man mit den großen Hunden pinkeln will, aber mit den kleinen das Bein nicht heben kann." [*]


[* - "When you want to piss with the big dogs but can't even lift your leg with the little ones."]

 

[effgee]

Oke... This article really touched on something here. 565 replies to a single article is heavy, even to ars standards.

Few things more satisfying than the bout of Schadenfreude when a violent, morally bankrupt bully finally gets himself a bloody nose.

If someone is in the business of constantly terrorizing and beating the shit out of his neighbors, he can't really be surprised when those same neighbors rejoice if he slips on a banana peel, falls down and cracks his head open.

FAFO, indeed.

 

[effgee]

Ok - since it's page 15 - we're 5 pages late with the following:

Spoiler: Microsoft Battleship

View attachment 61500

Status of the game in progress after Putin's second move:

Spoiler: Putin's Best Move

 

[effgee]

As a serious believer in evolution, I note that almost every society in the last 100,000 years has believed in an "invisible sky daddy". I presume that means it improves chances of survival. Evolution will have a response to humankind being able to choose when or if they have children. Presently, no developed nation comes anywhere near a birth rate maintaining their population. People who are religious, especially couples who share the same religion, produce more than enough offspring than needed to maintain the population.

Or perhaps...

Inventing an "invisible deity in the sky", and posing as his "anointed-by-deity", and of course conveniently "infallible" representative has always been the easiest way to gain and maintain control over a quasi-societal group of fellow humans?

"Thou shalt adhere to these here rules <insertdeityname> has delivered to his true followers by means of this talking, burning shrubbery. Thou also must follow them at all times and without question, or risk being ostracized from the group and suffer eternal damnation."

Those groups whose leaders were way incompetent inevitably perished, and those who persevered [or rather: "got lucky"?] survived and lived to tell the tales of their fabulous deity and chosen leader to their offspring. Or a few millennia later, got to write the history books.

Just seemed like an interesting brainfart there for a sec. Carry on, gentlefolk.