Straight out of a cyberpunk novel: Russia is to build floating nuclear power stations. That seems like a bad idea in so many ways.
Straight out of a cyberpunk novel: Russia is to build floating nuclear power stations. That seems like a bad idea in so many ways.
Pictures of Buran (site doesn’t work in Safari), the Russian space shuttle of which there was only a single test flight. More info at wikipedia.
How hackers took down Estonia, the most wired country in Europe.
Usavich is a strangely addictive Japanese cartoon about two rabbits imprisoned in a Russian jail.
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Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a nuclear war, but didn’t.
Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a nuclear war, but didn't.
This quote says it all:
In a way, the Chernobyl disaster reveals the true extent of our environmental impact on the planet. Harmful as it was, the nuclear accident was far less destructive to the local ecosystem than we were.
This is deeply representative of our times and of “influencer” culture.
The Russian troops had expected their “special operation” to be brief. Soldiers had brought scant supplies: one admitted that he’d packed only a single uniform, because he thought he was on a training exercise. Some asked Semenov where they could buy cigarettes. “They said, ‘Why are there no shops near here?’ I said, ‘This is a restricted zone!’ They didn’t understand where they were.”
Great read about Chernobyl under Russian occupation during the recent invasion. Where senior staff had to keep up quite a balancing act in order to save lives and avoid disaster.
An amazing-looking contraption built for the Soviet space program with a mechanical spinning globe and more cogs than an Enigma device.
