Posted on 08/20/2023 7:48:18 AM PDT by bitt
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Competing in the Crashed & Burned category, too bad.
If it was easy Niger would be doing it.
Today, in 2023.... I have my doubts about anything I see in the news. I suspect people lying. It really has come to be a sad matter of affairs we constantly question what is being told. I blame the BEST of the liars, the New York Times.
They're kind of distracted in Ukraine right now.
Why can’t these writers use the word crash?
Which was the one 45 years ago?
So, you think Tussia successfully landed on the moon?
It really has come to be a sad matter of affairs we constantly question what is being told.
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Always question what you are told. Trust is earned, not given. Discover the facts for yourself.
First defeated by Ukraine. Now defeated by the Moon.
Just like Luna 15 in July 1969. I believe there was something else happening on the moon at that time. 😏
The folks who used to say “Question Everything”, are now the ones putting folks in jail for questioning them.
For a first try in 47 years, it made it to the moon. Its a success that it didn’t blow-up upon launch.
This is totally normal in the process of space exploration. Look at the failures of the Atlas program.
More recently, Space-X’s first rocket was the Falcon 1. Its first three launches were failures, followed by two successes. Then Falcon 9 became the workhorse rocket for a decade, with just two failures in 232 launches, for very high success rate of 99 percent
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is behind Space-X in commercial development, but they are similar.
The Russians realize they need to get their @sses in gear, because its once again obvious - free-market development and competition in the USA is pushing space-launch technology and scale in ways they and China simply can not compete with.
The folks who used to say “Question Everything”, are now the ones putting folks in jail for questioning them.
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Folks? Who cares? Question Everything just common sense, not some political act.
They'll have to dismantle Putinism.
I think the U.S. will eventually become less capitalist under Biden Administration (and his successor Gavin Newsom). So we may lose our lead in space.
It will just be replaced with another "ism". Russians loves them some "isms".
How convenient
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