• Re: Did nobody stop to think what might happen in an emergency in space

    From Mad Hamish@21:1/5 to psperson@old.netcom.invalid on Wed Sep 4 00:53:20 2024
    On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:26:14 -0700, Paul S Person
    <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

    On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:36:25 -0400, Cryptoengineer
    <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 8/26/2024 2:49 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 8/26/2024 11:34 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On 25 Aug 2024 15:22:34 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: >>>>>

    For Apollo-Soyuz, the Soviets made up some adaptor boxes that went >>>>>> from =
    the
    American space suit connections to the Russian ones (as well as the = >>>>> adaptor
    ring to connect the two capsules).  I am surprised this is not a =
    solution.

    Sadly, the Soviets (and their technology) are long gone.

    I beg to differ - Soviet technology is still here. Ukraine has
    destroyed 3336 tanks so far, most of those from the soviet era.

    The still use Soviet Soyuz boosters.

    One might note that Putin desires the return of the Sovyetky Soyuz.

    Don't forget the 14,000 soviet nuclear weapons.  Thousands of the
    battlefield nuclear weapons are being distributed to the Russian troops
    right now.  The Ukranian advance is 300 miles inside Russia and they are >>> not going to burn Moscow this time.

    While even one nuke in a Western City would be Very Bad News, its >>legitimate to wonder how many Soviet nuclear bombs are operational.

    American nukes, and presumably Soviet/Russian ones, have the inital
    fission element include a neutron generator as part of the ignition.
    This uses some isotopes of relatively short half-lifes, such as tritium, >>which gives the bombs a limited shelf life before they need to be >>refurbished.

    This is true, and I think I should repeat something I have pointed out >before:

    just because Putin let his Army and Navy decline doesn't mean he let
    his Strategic Missile Forces do the same

    I believe there's a fair amount of experts that say that part of the
    reason the armed forced did decline was the decision to prioritize
    keeping the nukes in shape

    Of course a lot of experts also said Russia would roll over Ukraine in
    a couple of weeks...

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