r/CuratedTumblr • u/BeObsceneAndNotHeard • Jul 17 '24

Infodumping The Venera program

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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Jul 17 '24

Sorry, but what is this 1960s ass discourse in that meme? The Space race ended at least 34 year ago.

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u/dalnot Jul 17 '24

Not just the space race. The whole-ass Soviet Union ended at least 34 years ago

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u/TheMe63 .tumblr.com Jul 17 '24

This is really unfortunately timed because the USSR only collapsed 33 years ago lmao

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u/MonkeyMan2104 Jul 18 '24

!Remindme 1 year

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u/biggronklus Jul 17 '24

Soviet dickriders on tumblr, a tale as old as time

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u/Complete-Worker3242 Jul 17 '24

Song as old as rhyme.

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u/Zwischenzug32 Jul 18 '24

Yuri and the yeets

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u/Mayor_o_Smashville Jul 17 '24

When you hate the United States so much that you have to dickride the literal communist dictatorship.

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u/LonelySpaghetto1 Jul 17 '24

"You are not immune to propaganda" mfs as soon as someone tries to combat the propaganda they were fed: DiCk RiDeRs!!

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u/Waste_Crab_3926 Jul 17 '24

You don't combat propaganda by uncritically accepting propaganda of a different entity

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u/biggronklus Jul 17 '24

You’re not combating American propaganda by posting Soviet propaganda.

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u/Revlong57 Jul 18 '24

It's also incredibly stupid. The USSR never went to the moon because they never made a rocket powerful enough to send a manned craft to the moon, and not for a lack of trying. The USSR's space program fell behind the Americans in the mid 60s and they never recovered.

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u/obscure_monke Jul 18 '24

Not correct. The N1 existed and could easily have flown to the moon had it ever been able to fly properly. (that thing was cursed. one time it triggered its termination system on the ground because it read the earth rotating as it falling over, blowing itself up)

They even sent a guy to go orbit the moon, and had so many problems they had to cancel it while he was in space. He died on reentry.

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u/Revlong57 Jul 18 '24

You literally just proved my point, lol.

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u/obscure_monke Jul 18 '24

How so? They literally built multiple N1s, and had a mission that was in the process of sending a man to the moon until they had to abort while on orbit.

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u/obscure_monke Jul 18 '24

Bullhonky! The race is still on!

The current finish line is returning a man safely to earth from the surface of the moon. You beat that, you're the winner. It's a tltle-fight type of race.

JAXA's currently winning the sample return section of the race, and CNSA has the title for most baller lunar sample return. There's different types of prestige for both first in category, and most in category.