Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin declares Venus a ‘Russian planet’ and wants to go back to the place where the Soviet Union’s Venera 7 probe melted almost instantly on the hot and hostile surface. Should the U.S.A. challenge Russia’s Venusian hegemony, or let the Venus ‘sooners’ have a planet that Rogozin says is “like Hell over there.”
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If space explorers are not allowed to profit from their efforts, then they will heed the advice of The Little Red Hen 2.0 and never explore again.
So, if I understand the logic correctly, Russia/Soviets were on Venus first, So it’s a Russian planet. Does it not follow then, that the nation on the moon first and Mars for that matter, should belong to the nation that was first to set foot (in a way) on them. I believe that the argument would also cover a claim concerning Europa, a Saturn moon, when a joint venture of EU, NASA and the Italian Space Agency put a probe on that moon. And if we want to pick nits, what about extra solar exploration? How many nations have sent explorers beyond the solar system? Just asking.
I wanna terraform Mars. There might be a million reasons why it would “never” work, but we would learn so much from the process of trying that such a prediction is meaningless. It might be the ultimate “pure science research” for an entity like NASA. I think the benefits to humanity, even if it really did never work (and never is a very, very long time), would be incalculable.
So, what we’re saying here is that the Russians’ space program can go to Hell? I’m good with that.
And now that we’re moving away from paying Russia’s exorbitant fees to ferry Americans to the ISS, a huge injection of hard currency U.S. dollars into the Rodina …
That phrase will have multiple meanings, all of them applied accurately. I’m not only good with that, I greatly applaud it.
Venus? The Soviet planet? Fine, send all of their politicians there. They can have it. Once they are crispy critters we can get back to dealing with the real threats on this planet: the demented left of left and their attempt to build a global dictatorship!
I can think of a US politicians that Nan join them.
Just read that Russia doesn’t have the money, technological expertise, or industry to replace their 80’s era destroyers that are finally wearing out. Not too worried about them in this new space race.