Where the hell is the English button on that page???
Not really. Those ruskies are a smart and intelligent people and they do know their physics. They take pride in their achievements just like we do. If you want to read some fantastic books that bear this out start with Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", then "The Hunt For Red October" and go on through the whole series, you'll be hooked anyway. They are novels but will illustrate what those of us older than yourself dealt with in the cold war in that they were a very capable and formidable opponent. Clancy redefined the standard of researching subject materiel and if you like techno-thriller, spy, military novels you won't find better reading material. The movies are good but don't do the books justice.
Now if you want to say we are morons for electing a .gov that would allow NASA to be put in "time out", I'm right there with you.
I agree 100%. Plus you guys have to remember the Russians think differently then we do. They just want it to work and do not worry so much about how it looks or if it comes will all the latest Gee-Wiz gadgets. Like the AR vs AK thing. The AR is more accurate, etc but the AK can take more of a beating and keep on working.
Years ago I read a book about the Russian space program. One thing that stuck with me was the line about we spent over $100,000 to develop a pen that would write in the weightlessness of space. The Russians used a pencil.
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