Soviet Era Capsule Crashing Back On Earth

[TomC]

I was hoping for Mag-a-Lardo.

Now that you mention it, that would be the best. Especially if he was having dinner with Musk and similar supporters.
Tom

 

[TomC]

Is that Venus?
Cool!
Tom

 

[thebeave]

Is that Venus?
Cool!
Tom

Not bad for a Ruskie, eh?

 

[TomC]

Is that Venus?
Cool!
Tom

Not bad for a Ruskie, eh?

It's awesome. I don't care about who managed to accomplish that.

However angry I get about governments and policies, science is still cool.
Tom

 

[Bomb#20]

Is that Venus?
Cool!

Not so much.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Kremlin would have been great and appropriate. But the White House would have been fun too.
Tom

It had exactly zero chance of hitting Kremlin or much of the Russia. But White House, Pentagon or some neocon think tank building would have been appropriate.

You Russkies had the whole of the formerly Soviet Union to land your unwanted debris and still you mucked it up.

It was supposed to land on Venus.

Missed by one planet.

But seriously, USSR managed to be the only nation to do squat on Venus. USSR was able to confirm it sucks.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Is that Venus?
Cool!

Not so much.

It's not the heat, its the oh my fucking gawd, I'm being crushed by the atmosphere and the rain is burning my skin!!!!

 

[TomC]

Is that Venus?
Cool!

Not so much.

It's not the heat, its the oh my fucking gawd, I'm being crushed by the atmosphere and the rain is burning my skin!!!!

How do you say "Drill Baby Drill" in Venusian?
Tom

 

[barbos]

But seriously, USSR managed to be the only nation to do squat on Venus. USSR was able to confirm it sucks.

Venus does not suck, it burns and press.

 

[DBT]

Is that Venus?
Cool!
Tom

Apparently the little white bit on the ground is the ejected lens cap. Looks a bit worse for wear.

 

[bilby]

Is that Venus?
Cool!
Tom

Apparently the little white bit on the ground is the ejected lens cap. Looks a bit worse for wear.

Famously, the lens cap is the thing sitting under that extended arm.

The arm was a spring loaded experiment to measure the texture and resilience of the Venusian surface.

It provided instead data on the texture and resilience of a Soviet lens cap - which against all odds, landed in exactly the same spot as the sensor on the end of the spring-arm.

An extraterrestrial demonstration of Sods Law*.







* Often confused with Murphy's Law. Sods Law says "If anything can go wrong, it will". Murphy's Law gives guidance on avoiding Sods Law, and says "If there is more than one way to do something, and one of the ways will result in disaster, someone will do it that way". Murphy's Law admonishes engineers to ensure that the only way a thing can be done is the right way. Sods Law is just pessimism.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The Kremlin would have been great and appropriate. But the White House would have been fun too.
Tom

It had exactly zero chance of hitting Kremlin or much of the Russia. But White House, Pentagon or some neocon think tank building would have been appropriate.

You Russkies had the whole of the formerly Soviet Union to land your unwanted debris and still you mucked it up.

Sorry, but it wasn't unwanted debris. It was an apparently functional Venus lander whose rocket failed to send it to Venus.

And AFIAK they remain the only country to put operational hardware on the surface of Venus. Of course it didn't last very long but it wasn't expected to.

 

[TomC]

Sorry, but it wasn't unwanted debris. It was an apparently functional Venus lander whose rocket failed to send it to Venus.

I thought it was a fifty year old piece of equipment that failed to perform.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Tom

 

[Tigers!]

The Kremlin would have been great and appropriate. But the White House would have been fun too.
Tom

It had exactly zero chance of hitting Kremlin or much of the Russia. But White House, Pentagon or some neocon think tank building would have been appropriate.

You Russkies had the whole of the formerly Soviet Union to land your unwanted debris and still you mucked it up.

It was supposed to land on Venus.

As I said. You mucked it up. Thank you for confirming that.

 

[Tigers!]

An extraterrestrial demonstration of Sods Law*.







* Often confused with Murphy's Law. Sods Law says "If anything can go wrong, it will". Murphy's Law gives guidance on avoiding Sods Law, and says "If there is more than one way to do something, and one of the ways will result in disaster, someone will do it that way". Murphy's Law admonishes engineers to ensure that the only way a thing can be done is the right way. Sods Law is just pessimism.

I prefer my grandafther's rendition of Sod's Law - "Murphy was an optimist"

 

[steve_bank]

As I remember the story Murphy had an engine on stand running tests.

Two unkeyed hydraulic lines got swapped and the engine blew up. Hence if something can go wrong it will at the worse possible time.

I lump it all as a version of he 6 Ps.

Piss Poor Planning Means Piss Poor Performance.

Even the best and most experienced pepole can overlook something

 

[thebeave]

My favorite out of all of them is Cole's Law.

Thinly sliced cabbage.

 

[barbos]

The Kremlin would have been great and appropriate. But the White House would have been fun too.
Tom

It had exactly zero chance of hitting Kremlin or much of the Russia. But White House, Pentagon or some neocon think tank building would have been appropriate.

You Russkies had the whole of the formerly Soviet Union to land your unwanted debris and still you mucked it up.

It was supposed to land on Venus.

As I said. You mucked it up. Thank you for confirming that.

you never mucked anything?

 

[steve_bank]

"Crazy Ivan" is a maneuver, often associated with Soviet/Russian submarines, where a sub suddenly turns sharply (often 180 degrees) to check for potential pursuers in areas that sonar might not fully capture. It's named for Soviet/Russian military slang for "John" and the risky nature of such maneuvers at depth.

I am coining a new net term 'A crazy Barbos'.

A 'crazy Barbos; is a sudden erratic turn or change of direction in a thread.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Kremlin would have been great and appropriate. But the White House would have been fun too.
Tom

It had exactly zero chance of hitting Kremlin or much of the Russia. But White House, Pentagon or some neocon think tank building would have been appropriate.

You Russkies had the whole of the formerly Soviet Union to land your unwanted debris and still you mucked it up.

It was supposed to land on Venus.

As I said. You mucked it up. Thank you for confirming that.

you never mucked anything?

Tigers! is Aussie. Only thing in orbit by Australia likely came off of David Warner's (Gilchrist's?) cricket bat.