Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

How would that even be possible?

Russians officially convinced it was US radar that downed their Phobos Ground spacecraft

Phobic what now?

If it was brought down by radiowaves, it wasn't going to make it to Mars. Sorry fellas.

Should have used more Reynolds Wrap™

Zun! Haal! Viik!

Yes. It was that Offensive Radar that projects llama thoughts into the electronics.

Time for Putin to take off his shirt. Again.

/Phobos Grunt.

Mua ha hahahahah! Turn it up to 11!

That's part of how the Earth-Minbari War started.

cretinbob: farking verb tense, how does it work?

FTFM

This is pravda.ru, ffs.They'll probably end up saying it was a joint plot between the CIA, The League of Sentient Microwave Ovens, and Batboy.

Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

Yes, it was the US... Not SPECTOR...

Russians (new window)

Doc Daneeka: Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

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Well done sir..well done.

Doc Daneeka: Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

Well, we have the receipts...

"...Phobos Ground spacecraft..."




Is that like a Land Boat?

Or is it:

1) 1 lb Ground Spacecraft
2) 1 box Spacecraft Helper.

Brown Ground Spacecraft, Add 1 box Spacecraft helper, etc etc etc.

Fish in a Barrel: That's part of how the Earth-Minbari War started.

Plus one Internets to you!

/currently watching Season 2 of B5

Doc Daneeka: Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

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In all fairness, he did step down after he realized that the Intel handed to him was fabricated or poor.

ZMugg: "...Phobos Ground spacecraft..."

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Is that like a Land Boat?

Or is it:

1) 1 lb Ground Spacecraft
2) 1 box Spacecraft Helper.

Brown Ground Spacecraft, Add 1 box Spacecraft helper, etc etc etc.

The spacecrafts name was "Fobos-Grunt", which literally translates as "Phobos Ground".

/Why the Fark does Fark loose your in progress comment when you refresh now?

Doc Daneeka: Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

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I wasn't excluding the United States from that analysis. The Iraq War was an incredible re-election strategy. "You can't change horses midstream!!!"

Isildur: This is pravda.ru, ffs.They'll probably end up saying it was a joint plot between the CIA, The League of Sentient Microwave Ovens, and Batboy.

Translation on that page is so bad it is hard for an English-speaking reader to tell what they're saying.

BUT, my respect for Pravda specifically and Russian folks generally went up (another) notch when I clicked on the 'Era of Concorde' link on that page. Quite a bit more technical detail than you'll find in any dumbed-down US media... stuff like Concorde's top speed being set by the choice of airframe material, and the wing's CP shifting when supersonic so they shifted fuel (CG) to compensate rather than suffering the drag of trim tabs.

Uh guys, Pravada isn't exactly know for telling the truth all the time. Most of their stories in the post-Soviet era have been about aliens and shiat.


/Despite its name.

mavexe: Doc Daneeka: Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

[www.prisonplanet.com image 400x279]
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In all fairness, he did step down after he realized that the Intel handed to him was fabricated or poor.

And when we say 'step down' we mean 'ran like a sewer rat' and when we say 'after he realized' we mean 'after it became obvious to everyone that he was lying to us.'

Rapmaster2000: Doc Daneeka: Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

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[thepoliticalcarnival.net image 300x407]

I wasn't excluding the United States from that analysis. The Iraq War was an incredible re-election strategy. "You can't change horses midstream!!!"


Well, if you had two horses in a stream...

/for some reason

X15: ZMugg: "...Phobos Ground spacecraft..."

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Is that like a Land Boat?

Or is it:

1) 1 lb Ground Spacecraft
2) 1 box Spacecraft Helper.

Brown Ground Spacecraft, Add 1 box Spacecraft helper, etc etc etc.

The spacecrafts name was "Fobos-Grunt", which literally translates as "Phobos Ground".

/Why the Fark does Fark loose your in progress comment when you refresh now?

^^This^^

And, why do you get re-directed to random searches and pages when you click on anything, lately?

Why can't I vote on ANYTHING?

tinyarena: mavexe: Doc Daneeka: Rapmaster2000: Dictatorship 101: Invent outside threats.

Yep. Crazy cynical Russians, fabricating foreign threats to stir up internal support.

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In all fairness, he did step down after he realized that the Intel handed to him was fabricated or poor.

And when we say 'step down' we mean 'ran like a sewer rat' and when we say 'after he realized' we mean 'after it became obvious to everyone that he was lying to us.'

You know what is really sad? To anyone with a fully functioning brain he was lying when he presented his "evidence", but back in 02 or 03 if you expressed that Colin Powell and the Bush administration were liars, well you were a racists and an anti-American pussy.

pag1107: Maybe he means he thinks the US has a radar trace of it coming down? He's an idiot if he thinks some radar disabled the vehicle.

If it's the Americans' fault, then no one in Russia can/should be held responsible for the failure. A report like this is CYA all the way. It has nothing to do with reality, it's who gets shot for the failure.

EddyKilowatt: BUT, my respect for Pravda specifically and Russian folks generally went up (another) notch when I clicked on the 'Era of Concorde' link on that page. Quite a bit more technical detail than you'll find in any dumbed-down US media... stuff like Concorde's top speed being set by the choice of airframe material, and the wing's CP shifting when supersonic so they shifted fuel (CG) to compensate rather than suffering the drag of trim tabs.

Its all data you can get from Wikipedia or any documentary on the Concorde that's been on TV in the last 25 years.

I dunno. First off, IIRC, command signals are usually coded so that accidents DONT happen, however, it's possible I suppose, that an adjacent channel signal could be strong enough to prevent the probe from hearing it's command signals at all. [Technically this is called 'de-sense']

I would think however, that the actual control would by by the onboard computer and the ground to orbit signal would simply set the time and duration of burn and could be sent at some convenient time in advance, rather than being a real-time signal.

And no, HAARP did not have anything to do with this - HF is not used to communicate to satellites.

Isildur: This is pravda.ru, ffs.They'll probably end up saying it was a joint plot between the CIA, The League of Sentient Microwave Ovens, and Batboy.

Felgraf: How would that even be possible?

It isn't, its a silly idea. To get to Mars you have to endure cosmic radiation on a scale that Curiousity is happily measuring right this moment. So as cgraves67 mentioned, if it couldn't handle a few radiowaves it wasn't going to survive the trip to mars.

RADAR

/how does it work?
//not that way.

...that's not entirely true bbfreak...and that's all I'll say on this matter.

Better headline: Idiot scientists launch probe vulnerable to standard radar, much less months of exposure to deep space radiation.

Mixolydian Master: [i290.photobucket.com image 618x347]

I've been on fark for almost six years. I get almost all of the memes. What is this one supposed to be? I see it a lot, but now I am curious enough to actually ask lol

It's from "The Hunt for the Red October". In this scene the character in the foreground (played by Fred Thompson) says a line you probably recognize: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

Still waiting to see Dr. No....

/toppling rockets compensating for metal hands

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Seems you and me have the same idea...