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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

LOL yeah, and Ukraine was going to fall in 3 days.

[–] ThePantser 22 points 1 year ago

So they plan to invade whatever station is up there at that time and try to claim as their own?

[–] MushuChupacabra 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, most of the skilled workers needed for this project were pressed into military service, and got blown up in Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or sent to prison for collaborating, like that scientist who worked on commercial hypersonic airplanes.

[–] Aux 7 points 1 year ago

Or just packed their shit and ran away as far as they could. A lot of great IT professionals I know started leaving Russia after 2014. After 2022 literally everyone I know left Russia. Putin has fucked Russia real hard...

[–] LordWiggle 14 points 1 year ago

Nice aim. Also nice aim to take Ukraine in 3 days. I aim to be successful in 2027 but we all know I'm going to continue to be sad, alone and a faillure.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best we can do is Russian ground station.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Established a planetary station on earth.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That'll be the day tank turrets can fly... oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd still need to do a circularization burn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're so efficient they do the burn on the way up before they even need to.

[–] Sylver 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hahahaha…… oh wait, he’s serious..?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"let me laugh even harder!"

[–] TheOneWithTheHair 5 points 1 year ago

He plans on Putin it up there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The ISS is ageing and Tiangong is still quite small, so this is badly needed. Unfortunately in the current political climate it is unlikely that Western countries will want to join this project, so Russia might have issues funding the entire station.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention, they’re gonna have a hell of a time building anything like that without western electronic components, because I don’t see that faucet being turned back on anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

To be fair they'd only need -70 -80 tech, but I don't see that happening with that tech either because they have become too corrupt as a country, russians do no longer believe in the glory/superiority of Russia.

And obviously, a space station from the eighties wouldn't help much ofc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Constantly causing brain drains will probably not help either.

[–] AA5B 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s kind of the point. Russia already announced withdrawing from ISS and said they would build their own. The Soviets did build a couple small space stations back in the day, leading up to ISS so in theory they just need to dust off the plans and gather any spare parts. Even if that was it, I can’t see this happening

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Okay Igor, where are the plans?

Igor?

Oh yeah I sent Igor to gulag, and then to Ukraine.

Vanya, where are the plans?

Vanya?

...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I remember correctly, the Soviet space programme used to always build a backup. If the original worked, the backup would be maintained and then used on another mission, or used to train cosmonauts. So Mir's backup became the ISS's core module, and so on. So they should have some modules already built, and of course they have launch vehicles. The problem will be funding.

Anyway, NASA + ESA + Japan + Canada are planning another space station, but in lunar orbit.

[–] Aux 4 points 1 year ago

It is most likely everything was scavenged and sold. There are videos of a current state of Buran, it's pretty much a skeleton of itself as everything valuable got stolen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, good luck with that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How many holes will it have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Regardless of how many holes, I'm sure they will still be round, and we'll still be trying to put square-shaped astronauts through them.

[–] Inmate 5 points 1 year ago

Or someone could just colorize and upscale that photo of Komarov's charred corpse and call it a day before anyone gets hurt

[–] eran_morad 5 points 1 year ago

Interest rates in russia just hit 15%.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Something tells me Putin won't be around anymore by 2027...

[–] kokesh 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope he is man enough and files on the inaugural mission

[–] MeanEYE 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, kind of poor statement considering track record of Soyuz.

[–] Breezy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does he have enough money for that? Or might he expect to be rich as soon as he plunders the war torn ukraine.

[–] MeanEYE 3 points 1 year ago

It's not the question of money as much as ban on high tech stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah. Planting the trees who's shade he'll never enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

More like "election coming up soon, need to look like a strong, innovative leader of a successful country"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's assuming he still has a country in 2027

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's assuming Putin is still alive in 2027.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Heheh they'll need a full complement of crew to do nothing but stick their fingers in leaks.

[–] Beetschnapps 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From where will it all launch? Where does the technology come from if they still cannot produce in house? Who will pay?

Is he going to β€œinvade” a Chinese station and call it a victory?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just imagine the size of the crater it will leave on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Missing the target by a distance roughly equal to the combined diameter of all planets in our solar system would be very on brand for Russian tech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They’re gonna need to steal a looooot of washing machines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rewrote the headline to predict what actually will happen: Putin's final living order before he committed suicide due to shame of losing in Ukraine aims to have Russian space debris & cosmonaut corpses in decaying orbit by 2027