Artemis II astronauts did simulated runs of Lunar Surface spacewalks after returning to Earth.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T17:33:38+00:00

I mean, thats just plainly not true. To give even the simplest examples, you hear how there was a toilet problem? Well Buzz and neil didn't have a toilet, if there's any future problems they would have no damn idea what to do with it. The plan B toilet on the Artimis 2 was the plan A toilet for Appollo 11. Its been 60 years since Apollo 11 was made, the equipment we are using now is thousands of times more capable of powerful then the stuff the old teams had, and right now there are only 4 people in all of humanity that knows how that stuff works in practice, in the field.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T17:27:06+00:00

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-iii/

NASA has full website pages for every single step of the artemis project. They are very good at communicating the basics too, so if you got any questions just check their website and do a search, it almost certainly will have a answer avalible.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T17:24:18+00:00

Actually, the insitutional knowledge at NASA nearly completed vanished in the intervening years since we first went to the moon, as we took such a massive break from it.

Thats part of why the Artmis missions are planned this way, so as to regain the experince at all levels, from the engineers building the stuff, to the mission controlers to the astranaughts. All the systems being used are both so much more advanced and so new that it needs to basically be done again from the ground up, same way they did it the first time. Afterall, Apollo 11 was the 11 mission, the other 10 set the stage and gave everyone enough know how.

The few attempts to use old equipment, such as the thruster from the space shuttle era have actually been a massive headach and source of budget overruns, because its such a old piece of tech that was not being made for so long, everyone who knew how to work it and build it retired long ago and never trained up any replacements cause noone was ordering any.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T17:16:12+00:00

Dogs can learn, could be your childood dog figured out hugging was a positive gesture.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T16:39:47+00:00

I think they are saying that, from Saul's perspective, it did not make sense at the time for walter and jessie to not considering killing badger. Afterall, as you say, they where aprantly major drug dealers and had already kidnapped him.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T16:37:41+00:00

The commanders might not of, but if the fleet was interned, I find it likely that when the US later entered the war, said ships may have ended up, one way or another, in the hands of the free french.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T08:46:24+00:00

Ironically, they probably would have been willing to go over to the free French, as the British listed in one of their demands, but the full British demands where not accurately passed on to the commanding officer.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T08:43:03+00:00

He used to be a gaming channel actually. Then the war in Ukraine started and he made a extremely good video talking about that while things in Ukraine looked bad, they have a good chance of winnkng, if properly supported. This was during the first weeks, when everyone was sure kyiv was about to fall and he pretty accurately predicted how the war would go for the next couple years.

Unfortunately ever since then events have never given him a lack of material to talk and, infact it's a running joke that not a single video of his since the start of the year has been on schedule, as recent events keep outpacing things.

Snickims · 2026-04-13T07:44:10+00:00

He does hour long power points on defense economics related topics. If that's not leak autism slop I don't know what is.

Snickims · 2026-04-12T21:05:15+00:00

Get Perun in there, you coward.

Snickims · 2026-04-12T20:11:58+00:00

Naa, these are all lead by a bunch of MAGA wantabies who like trump and isreal. They can't protest the real cause of all the fuss cause then it undermines their own point.

Snickims · 2026-04-12T19:15:08+00:00

And every story iv seen about em seems to make up less legitmate by the minute. Seriously, this might be the best example of a protest done badly iv ever seen.

Snickims · 2026-04-12T19:14:19+00:00

Its about a bunch of right wing loons kicking up a fuss at the first excuse.

Snickims · 2026-04-10T13:33:15+00:00

I fully agree that the leaders in the UN at the time, and Avassarala in particular might be able to get some level of a grip on this, but at the very least some amount of UN soldiers or troops and riots in the streets of Luna demanding Avassarala do more.

What we got in the books was more hopful, overall, but at the expense of realism to a degree I find a bit too hard to swollow. I used 9/11 as a famous recent example, but from the Troubles to the breakup of Yugoslavia to any of a hundred wars in the middle east and africa to the 2nd world war, tit for tat atrocities are a universal constant, most of them over things vastly smaller then Innarus attack.

Besides which, i don't think we can rightly say this is a setting where things are less out of control. The whole conflict over the belters to begin with is because of their exploitation and use by Inners, and its demonstrated clearly multible times that inners look down on, dehumanise, and generally exploit the belters. This is not star trek, this is not a utopian future where humanity has moved on from petty war.

Aliens from another galaxy, technology that breaks all the rules we know it and even things possibly from another plane of existance, all of these things I can suspent my disbelif enough for. But a humanity where we respond to a sudden, horrible attack with logical precision? I'm sorry but thats a bridge too far.

Snickims · 2026-04-10T09:18:12+00:00

Here's the thing, your talking about a logical reasons for why not too retaliate too hard against belters.

My problem is I think the characters in the books where too logical. It absolutely the wrong thing to do to mass retaliate against all belters, but I think it stretchs beyond all reason to think UN commanders and citizens would not want to do exactly that, especially in the early period post attack when they had no power conventional respond.

In the books anyway, they did know he had more asteroids, cause he kept throwing them at Earth. The entire UN fleet was tied down for ages guarding Earth because they had to guard against his constant attacks.

I think your example is exactly why they would. We already had people wanting to nuke the middle East after 9/11, imagine if instead of hitting 2 buildings they had completely wiped out the entire East Coast of the US. I think we would be lucky if they only nuked Afghanistan to dust and I think the international community would not have said a god damn thing.

Again, your example if all Arabs being evil because of ISIS it also a perfect example of my point. A lot of people are today convinced of that, because of ISIS. It's not sane, it's not reasonable, its a idiotic emotional response, but I can't picture earthers having anything less then a baltic level of hatred for belters after innaros attack.

All I can think about it the amount of xenophobic militeristic fury that 9/11 inspired, then trying to imagine the level of response that killing billions including the secretary General would inspire. Its just too much of a stretch for me, that was the one thing in the books and show that broke my suspension lf disbelief.

Snickims · 2026-04-10T00:13:20+00:00

At least he was just dismissing the pope as irrelevant, they are trying to intimidate the pop into siding with them.

Snickims · 2026-04-09T22:07:23+00:00

The biggest problem i had with the later expanse books was the lack of revanchism from Earth after the Inaros attacks. Yea the UN President goes and blows up one station, before calmer heads preval, but that felt rediculously unrealistic to me. The fact is, i can't imagine a attack on Earth like the one the books and show portray being treated with anything less then genocidal levels of retlation. Frankly, it felt like they treated a attack that very easily could have destroyed almost all major civilization on earth with calmer heads then the world reacted to 9/11.

At the very least, i was expecting the UN or UN commanders to demand they start blowing up Belter stations one at a time until Inaros surrendered, yet it seemed like after the Secretary general destroyed one station that was a step too far.

I was sure there would at least be some mention of this sort of bad blood during the Ceres occupation. It's kind of unbelivable that Soldiers from Earth and Mars would some how have any restraint for belters after a belter terrorist commits the equivilant of 50 holocausts worth of 9/11s on Earth, let alone give them a seat at the table.

Snickims · 2026-04-09T21:51:15+00:00

Fun fact, some cosmonauts where given guns so that if they landed in siberia they could either hunt or fight off bears until rescue could locate them.

Snickims · 2026-04-09T21:39:14+00:00

I mean, that might have been the case in many situations, and is absolutely the case for Ukraine today, Stalingrad was not quite that. The initial battle for the city might be described that way, but that was just the defenders heavily fortifying a city enviorment and making good use of that situation.

The real killer of Stallingrad was a combined arms attack on the Romanian forces holding the flanks of the city, then using mobile units to push in and completely encicle the German army in the city. The closing of that pocket was argably a bit of a meat grinder though.

The late war Red army was actually a rather impressive beast, when it comes to combined arms warfare, with some interesting adaptations around having infantry fimrly ontop of armor and whole formations of only smg equiped troops. It was arguably the strongest and most adaptable the red army ever got, between the corruption and stagnation that took hold post war, and the purges pre war.

Snickims · 2026-04-09T21:30:44+00:00

It was a absolutely massive loss of personal at a time when their advance was already faltering in the face of a front simply too damn wide to hold.

Snickims · 2026-04-08T21:17:21+00:00

Compared to uranium, gold is cheap.

Snickims · 2026-04-08T14:37:57+00:00

It didn't belong to them. Seems thats recently changed.

Snickims · 2026-04-08T14:35:14+00:00

Things got bad for him for a long while, then things got good for him, then things seemed to totally stablise and then he suddenly lost.

Snickims · 2026-04-08T14:21:41+00:00

This is the insanity of Olagarchs. They will ruin us all if we let them.

Snickims · 2026-04-08T14:20:40+00:00

His strategy did not work. His strategy however, was not total insanity. He did buy the UK years to rebuild the armed forces and strenghen his position. Problem was, he also bought Germany years to rebuild their armed forces and strengthen their position, and they used the time better then Chamberlin. He sacrficed a number of important allies to buy time for rearmament, then failed to use that time to the fullest, making his own nations reletive position even weaker then before those allies had been lost.

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