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[Anomalocaris]

A top Russian rocket scientist, Professor Vitaly Melnikov, died a week and half after the probe he worked on made a new crater on the moon.    TASS indicated the unfortunate professor died  after eating poisonous mushrooms.    

From this we might deduce the next russian space probe will be developed by a better motivated staff who have taken more care to get better life insurance lest they too find dubious mushrooms in their diet should the next mission also reflect badly on Putin.

[LinuxGal]

A top Russian rocket scientist, Professor Vitaly Melnikov, died a week and half after the probe he worked on made a new crater on the moon.    TASS indicated the unfortunate professor died  after eating poisonous mushrooms.   

I trust no information coming out of Russia these days.

[LinuxGal]

From this we might deduce the next russian space probe will be developed by a better motivated staff who have taken more care to get better life insurance lest they too find dubious mushrooms in their diet should the next mission also reflect badly on Putin.

In Russia’s defense, they did achieve their goal of delivering a payload to the moon.  Unfortunately, they did it the same way that they deliver payloads to Ukraine.

[Anomalocaris]

From this we might deduce the next russian space probe will be developed by a better motivated staff who have taken more care to get better life insurance lest they too find dubious mushrooms in their diet should the next mission also reflect badly on Putin.

In Russia’s defense, they did achieve their goal of delivering a payload to the moon.  Unfortunately, they did it the same way that they deliver payloads to Ukraine.

Maybe they would do even better with more Iranian aerospace technology.

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From this we might deduce the next russian space probe will be developed by a better motivated staff who have taken more care to get better life insurance lest they too find dubious mushrooms in their diet should the next mission also reflect badly on Putin.

In Russia’s defense, they did achieve their goal of delivering a payload to the moon.  Unfortunately, they did it the same way that they deliver payloads to Ukraine.

Good thing there aren't actually apartments and such on the moon, but your point is still well-taken.

[Anomalocaris]

Russia’s predicament today is not unlike Soviet unions predicament in the early 1930s,   When stalin began the brutal drive to industrialize the Soviet Union.    Russia now as Soviet Union then had fracture industrial base.    Both states have lost colossal amounts of human capital in the form of talent flight.     Russia now through emigration after Ukrainian war, Soviet Union then through emigration after the bolshevik Revolution and subsequent red terror.    those components that had been retained had been wasting away and become largely obsolescent.      Both then and now Soviet Union and Russia had only limited access to financial and technological resources from abroad.

If anything, Soviet Union’s predicament in the early 1930s was worse than Russia’s predicament now.    However, Stalin was able to instituted an ultimately effective,  but staggeringly costly in terms of human suffering,  regime of forced industrialization through terro to get the most out of such human resource he has, where senior technical personnel are routinely denounced, sent to the gulags or  even executed for underperformance in expanding and modernizing Soviet union’s industrial and technology capacity.

I would not be surprised that as more and more evidence gather to show how far Russia has fallen in terms of industrial and technologically capabilities and resources,  Putin will increasingly look back in history to the Stalinist era of terror for inspiration about how to reverse Russia’s technological and industrial decline.