Speaking to reporters early Wednesday, Tver Gov. Igor Rudenya said that all drones in the region were shot down and that there was a fire on the ground as a result of debris from a downed drone. As he spoke, loud explosions could be heard in the background.

If the sun became a red giant tomorrow, and Earth found itself inside the outer layers of solar atmosphere, then drag would start slowing it down. In less than 70,000 years, it would fall close enough to the center to be torn apart by tidal forces like one of Saturn’s moons (assuming it hasn’t already been vaporized).

If we’ve already waited 5 billion years to have our revenge, whats another 70k? The lowest amount of Delta V we can spend on this project is zero.

Sagittarius A* would like a word, and you’ll never get that word back.

What if we catch a gravity assist off Jool, and do the retrograde burn at perijool to gain some free Oberth Effect DV?

it’s the bees knees when you’re married - cream pies all day, every day

Some people find hydrostatic equilibrium aesthetically pleasing.

Yeah, its the same opportunistic authoritarians, they just use different propaganda to hold onto power today compared to when they called themselves the USSR.

The reverse could be true also - the EM coming off the plasma conduits could interfere with the operation of brushless motors.

Right on. No matter how well meaning people may be, if we misunderstand the issues then we’re unlikely to craft working solutions.

The only comment I would add to yours is that local economies are interconnected with the global marketplace. If the price of oil goes up overseas, domestic producers will increase their prices too. Additionally, the cost of energy is baked into the price of imported goods. Even if a country were completely energy independent, a spike in the price of energy on the global markets would increase price of just about everything at home.

Gotta begin describing how weird it is somewhere though. Like, isn’t it weird how one of the people those characters are supposed to represent is actually a Russian puppet, but the artist put the Russian flag behind the other one?

*novoukraine

Is it clear? Seems profitable to own that clay - the pipeline infrastructure connects Asian oil with European markets, and whoever controls it can charge rent and leverage favors. For example, back in the day when Russia used to own it, they tried using it to extort the EU, begging for ridiculous concessions and threatening to shut down the pipeline if their silly demands aren’t met.

in Russia, they call them “democracies”

They would do the same everywhere if they could get away with it. For example, the right wing corporatists of USA are perpetually in pursuit of the deregulation that lets this kind of medical malpractice thrive, and they constantly whine, bitch, and moan when the “deep state” won’t let them.

Gimli on sinking the submarine of Theseus: That still only counts as one

who are, ironically, not communist

I submit that their efforts to subdivide and subsequently subdue their subjugated subordinates by subtly subsidizing subversives is no substitute for substance and will substantially subtract from their ability to keep their reputations afloat.

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Poland: “I’ve seen this one before.”

Wonder how it handles Sandevistan? Does time slow down for everyone? Do only NPC’s slow down?