Russia to prioritize construction of new Cosmodrome now that Olympics over
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[QUOTE=antianan;44052984]No it isn't. Passive or not, these people at least exist, and this matters much actually. All they need is a possibility to act, and I hope one day it will come.
I mean, they are the necessary condition for these changes, while the possibility is sufficient condition.[/QUOTE]
Well yeah, but I meant, at present. At this moment, those people can do nothing.
[editline]26th February 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=damnatus;44052992]dude we all do
but let's be real, it aint coming in the foreseeable future[/QUOTE]
There must be some extent to which they can leach off of big business.
[QUOTE=Stren;44052746]Cosmodrome is a way fucking cooler word than spaceport.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a place where planets do battle to the death.
Oh, good.
I read "Cosmodome" and thought they were wasting money on another stadium for some reason.
[QUOTE=Ogris;44053248]Sounds like a place where planets do battle to the death.[/QUOTE]
I bet with the amount of money the project's gonna cost by the end of it's construction, we could've built two of what you imagined.
Well if they're going to be shamelessly corrupt, at least they're going to be making cool stuff while doing so.
Whether the current cosmodrome actually needs replacing is questionable however.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;44055604]Well if they're going to be shamelessly corrupt, at least they're going to be making cool stuff while doing so.
Whether the current cosmodrone actually needs replacing is questionable however.[/QUOTE]
It absolutely does. As far as I've read about it for the last couple of years, as it grows older it's capacity to support stable number of launches gets smaller and smaller: you can only repair it so far, then maintenance gets so costly you'd be better off with a new one; plus up to a certain point it's cheaper to build a modern cosmodrome than modernize old one.
And then we have a problem with the fact that our biggest and most active cosmodrome is in Kazakhstan, and that's rather inconvenient: it's not only costly to maintain, it also requires rent payment, which includes bribes etc.
I believe I've actually seen some statistics that predict some really nasty stuff: by 2016 it will get cheaper to just build a rocket and launch it than pay Khazakhstan to allow it.
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