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cocacola443 (July 6, 2008 at 4:30 pm)
A lot of what the Soviets did, though, was just technology stolen from the U.S. (by Soviet spies). Look at the A-bomb, the H-bomb, and read about the "Farewell Dossier" to find out how the Soviets "developed" a lot of their technology.
If we lived (in the U.S.) in a truly free market economy, there would be no boom and bust cycle, and money would be backed by gold, not controlled by a monopolized private bank. 'Free trade' is not part of capitalism, and has no place in an ideal world.
cocacola443 (July 6, 2008 at 4:27 pm)
I don't know where Algarve is, you're right (but I'm assuming it's Portugal). Let me tell you, though, it's not capitalism at fault...it's the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Comission, and the Council on Foreign Relations bent on the 'New World Order'. They are the ones in control of the markets. We don't really have 'capitalism', in some ways, in the U.S. (we have a private central bank with a monopoly on money...one of the cornerstones of a centrally planned economy).
portugal81 (July 6, 2008 at 7:18 am)
nope a i am portugues and i live in algarve bet you dont now were it is i just give credits to soviets in many recherach fields if there was 2 things the comunists regimes were good was educacion and health care by the way we see how the owrld its today without a the equilibrium of 2 superpowers its not just the wars the capitalists bussiness are abusing the labour worldwide because today there is no alternitive and we are seeing the results of market now get ready for the worst world depresion
cocacola443 (July 6, 2008 at 4:56 am)
Really? Because I read. Do you know how many emergencies and close calls there were on Mir? What is your native language, anyway? I don't watch that many movies (I haven't seen Armageddon, btw).
Mir was designed to last about 5 years, yet lasted for 15. That being said, it still wasn't the best peace of engineering. Are you in the former Soviet Union, or one of it's former possessions? You seem to be a product of their wonderful propaganda machine
portugal81 (June 30, 2008 at 2:16 pm)
you made a mistake mir was very susseful and evean get to use for the double of time it was made for it was the enbrion of space internacional staccion the usa eaven pay to put there austronats there to get experixion you seen to much armageddon movies
cocacola443 (June 30, 2008 at 6:23 am)
Is that why their (USSR's) economic system collapsed in 1991? You call Americans stupid, but look at your grammar and spelling! You'd better be able to speak/write in more than one language, because your English is not very good.
By the way, the USSR doesn't exist anymore. It's the Russian Federation...and trust me, their space program is in far worse shape than ours (remember MIR?).
cocacola443 (June 30, 2008 at 6:18 am)
Good work assuming I cheated. BTW, the second Iraq is supposed to be Iran (typo). I can't prove it to you, but I didn't use Google Maps (or any other map for that matter).
Why don't you look up your pencil story on Snopes? It's FALSE. You are wrong. Period.
Plutoplatter (May 17, 2008 at 7:22 am)
Another reason for the horizonal stance is the cultural nature of Russia. Everyone and everything there is drunk all the time, including their rockets. Like the schnockered Russian people, their N-1 wasn't capable of standing very long.
DoctorJK3 (May 11, 2008 at 7:30 pm)
The Russians could not manufacture a pressurized pen and so were relegated to pencils.
America later allowed them to buy Fisher(tm) space pens at the same discount rate as NASA.
cool.
Plutoplatter (May 11, 2008 at 3:59 pm)
That's exactly the point: the Soviets refused to show failure footage, and that is why these amazing videos from them almost always cut off before the explosions occur. The one exception was the N-1 blast that happened upon its barely clearing the launch tower. There's limited footage of that failure availalble here on YouTube. Bottom line: the Soviets were secrative, and the vaunted N-1 was a big Zero. |
