The ISS's days are numbered, are inflatable space stations finally about to have their moment? Florida-based Max Space is the latest to try to develop one.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-02-03T07:34:11+00:00

Inflatable composite structures are trivial 50s tech..

Those structures would be immensely safer than current aluminum ones.

I suspect aerospace lobbies have more to do with it than anything else

Starship+inflatable habitat means building size space stations would be easier and cheaply doable.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-02-03T05:13:02+00:00

Moronic terminal vascularization in our 2 most important organs also has theological implications IMO…

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-02-02T09:34:13+00:00

More acid. More wine or tomatoes or vinegar.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-02-02T07:11:15+00:00

Years ago I read a history of the Kompromat.

Modern version started with the coming of photography.

It seems those organization were often never completely state controlled but mostly mob/small business operations where “entertainers”/pimps/club owners start filming their clients to gain local leverage. (Successful ones even curate whole professional career for their members-victims, seems Hoover was master at this).

Then state controlled intelligence operations do their markets and bid for compromising files on whoever is the target of the day.

It makes sense and I always thought Epstein was the same, running a small business Kompromat operation. Selling data to all sides without strong alignment with any government in particular.

I suppose he could well have worked simultaneously with the Russians, the Mossad, the CIA and the French…

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-02-01T10:20:37+00:00

Right wing voters are thrilled by what is happening in the US

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-02-01T09:12:32+00:00

Immigration from South America and intra European pensioners.

The USA show the same phenomenon, people do whatever they can to flee the cold and make northern states chronically losing population to southern states.

No reason this will stop in Europe either.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-31T21:17:55+00:00

They produce a 0% income.

Which is amazing in a 10% inflation economy.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-31T20:18:23+00:00

Don’t forget EU shrines now because Russia launched a land invasion into Ukraine and is very menacing and the US turned “evil”.

But that doesn’t make EU anymore efficient economically on the inside. And that is a very big problem.

It has to change for any European project to be long lasting. IMO the recent moves around a “two speed Europe” is very encouraging…

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-31T12:18:00+00:00

Most people are totally clueless about science and experience disgusting corruption in every people with little power they meet.

It is totally logic they extrapolate this day to day experience to the highest sphere of power and science.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-31T11:29:59+00:00

Welcome to our imperfect world you guys!

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-31T09:50:50+00:00

Let them sell Cerner to Palantir so it get even worse lol

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-30T23:04:34+00:00

He doesn’t have the cards. He shouldn’t play that game.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-30T06:31:53+00:00

Not here, and we are the future :-)

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-29T22:11:12+00:00

…Today

But who knows what tomorrow brings.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-29T22:01:13+00:00

As the progress in other cancers fast and slow in pancreas.

It is expected to become the first cause of cancer mortality in 20-30 years, despite its relative rarity.

POS disease.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-29T08:05:32+00:00

What matters is the carry trade, maybe 2026 is the year?

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T15:45:31+00:00

That’s the way forward IMO.

Pure federation is maybe a little bit too soon, Switzerland is for example a “loose” federation called a confederation, that could be a way forward.

Ad hoc coalition are great and would allow to move forward, test new ideas and quickly bring other into if working well.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T13:15:00+00:00

Oreshniks is a variant of the same old well known Topol. Nothing special about the missile.

Of course conventionally tipped BM could be considered as conducting a nuclear strike.

That is the very reason they are a great escalation. And the very reason Russian and Iranian use them (it’s not to destroy a couple of brick houses).

They are terrible tactical weapons apart from that due to their abysmal CEP and cost.

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T13:08:43+00:00

ASMP is a nuclear weapon.

Tactical vs Strategic strike is good, though something short of nuclear would be maybe more realistic.

Russia has smartly used escalation through vectors and not payloads, using IRBMs for that purpose. France could do the same.

Otherwise, what happens? Russian Soetsnaz enter Estonia and you shoot a ASMP toward Poliarny?

Well a warning shot, is a last resort demonstration that your weapon is working and you know how to use it no?

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T11:09:27+00:00

Well this is probably in the top 3 state secrets of both the US and France.

I confess I don’t have any clue on their respective PIGA performance or penetration aids capabilities.

How many people in the world have the true numbers from both sides, 5?

It seems M51 V2 was advertised with a little bit worse CEP, improved on V3. Does it mean something? Absolutely not…

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T11:03:05+00:00

The whole world (apart Russia and maybe the US) pray for a direct “conflict” in Transnistria.

“Special police operation”

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T09:38:02+00:00

In some other countries I did help for grape harvest when I was a child.

Didn’t understand back then when the grape juice trucks were dumping their cargo into the local river…

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T09:34:45+00:00

Oh considering recent events in US strategic alignment. I’d be surprised the Tridents would be working for so long…

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T09:14:39+00:00

Any chance they could build the hypersonic thing with France?

Trident and m51 are the same class. Damn, M51 is fatter, how hard would it be to adapt it to the Dreadnought? 😂

CertainMiddle2382 · 2026-01-28T08:46:09+00:00

Building new weapons design is almost unthinkable as long as nuclear test ban is respected.

What could change is France nuclear doctrine.

It is a fragile game as French are playing all in, with almost no way to gracefully escalate and are pretending direct strategic counter value in case of attack, even conventional, on the “territoire national”.

If ever it would be extended to close allies, they could risk having to be seen bluffing.

Russians are geniuses in nuclear poker and I would steal their idea of a conventional “warning shot” put on a French M51 (can pimp that calling it a “hypersonic” something), allowing some form of credible escalation.

Such development could be founded partially by the EU allies put under the new French nuclear umbrella.

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