We’ll see how much of Russia still exists in its present form in a decade.
Suuure russia. Ofc you are still a big mighty strong power that can beat up anyone especially all of NATO at once. Now here is cookie
They also planned to overrun Ukraine in three days.
Given the usual level of Russian corruption, they will notice when they want to draw power from that reactor that someone had already sold off the nuclear fuel and replaced the rods on the reactor with lead.
Ah, so I have a joke about Soviet corruption that applies to modern Russia too
A brand new apartment building in Moscow collapses. Investigators are sent to interrogate the suspects.
First they ask the sand. The sand defends itself: “How could you even suspect me? I’m so white, pure of heart!”
Second they ask a brick. The brick replies: “Look at me, so red. An exemplary communist, how could you suspect me?”
Last, they ask the cement. The cement goes: “Why are you blaming me? I wasn’t even there!”
Is this before or after they conquer all of Europe?
Oh yes, moon nazis intensifies.
We know how new year’s resolutions usually turn out
Sure, and I plan to win the lottery.
The next day: “well ho-ly shit…”
Russia’s got more of a space program than the US at this point. And they’ve continued to build and modernize their nuclear infrastructure, with the youngest plant coming online as recently as 2020 and seven in the pipe.
They’re two industries the country has keep in relative working order while the rest of the economy was scrapped for parts back in the '90s/'00s.
Insane to think they are in a position to colonize the moon when they’re quagmired in Ukraine and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of young men to keep at it. But they have the kit to try in a way no other county - except maybe China or India - could hope to.
They also planned to take Ukraine. See how well their plans work out for them?
And that was supposed to take 3 days, so a decade here means at least a thousand years.
Yeah, that sounds doable.
To power what?
Well, you can’t put permanent infrastructure on the moon without a plan to power it. So, a power plant has to be the first step, that’s why NASA has the kilopower program, even though we don’t have a permanent moon base yet.
The sun, right over there: “um, hello?”
Now I might be talking shit, but isn’t there a problem with dust on the moon that means solar panels wouldn’t work very well? Though I may be thinking of Mars. Or something else. Uranus?
The moon
The dark side of
Space lasers!!
Lol it often takes longer than a decade to build one on earth
But then you build a much bigger one on earth. New nuclear power plants are often designed to generate over 1000 MW, NASA has designed small modular nuclear plants to deploy at space bases that generate 10 KW, a completely different scale.
Translation: russian government is out of ideas on how to embezzle even more budget money.
This is a fucking joke. I wish media wouldn’t take it seriously.
I recently read this about their “new” spacestation:
The latest concept for the ROS reflects Roscosmos’ changing situation in recent years, owing to sanctions and the termination of international cooperation following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to Orlov’s announcement, Russia will separate its modules from the ISS once the program is completed in 2030, forming the core of the ROS, with other modules to follow.
In other words, they’re just decoupling & rearranging the modules & renaming the result.
Feel free to extrapolate from that how realistic a Russian nuclear plant on the moon is.
They used to do this shit all the time to trick America into wasting time and resources trying to keep up with them
As often as not they were chasing Americans’ empty promises (and occasionally achieving the impossible as a result).
The hydrogen bomb, the probe into Venus, the Mirr Space Station… all launched in response to American campaigns.
But the USSR of the 60s/70s was a wildly different place from post collapse Nationalist Russia. They scraped much of their R&D infrastructure for parts under Yeltsin.
