Like a bad comedy named "Space Force?"

I still can't take the name "Space Force" seriously. Sounds like something from a bad comedy

Germany tried to avoid conflict with Russia by trading with it. The hope was that the economic repunctuations would make war too expensive. That didn't' work.

With China trade does seem to be preventing any conflict but people aren't confident that it will hold forever. China is illegally building islands in the South China Sea to claim resource rich waters as theirs and are ignoring the legitimate claims from the countries around the sea.

The spy balloon also damaged political relationships between China and the US.

I'm not saying the US's way is right. I would however argue their way is more right that what China and Russia seem to want.

One of my favourite ways to go to sleep is to listen to my MP3 player, especially audio books about space. Also the radio 4 program "In Our Time" has some good MP3 downloads of past episodes, the ones about space or general science discussions are very good for mental distraction.

Alternatively find some long cosmology videos on YouTube and record the audio.

From a meditation point of view, the big picture, likely infinite universes, do mean that on that scale our existence is insignificant, there is some comfort to be had from that. But on the other hand without conscious life the universe has no meaning. So as well as being made from star dust we give the universe the ability to reflect on itself. Not bad for an insignificant ape descendent.

Personally I tend to overthink things and live too much in my head. Getting outside and smelling the flowers and seeing the beauty and even making bubbles in the garden is recommended.

I do the same! I thought I was the only one. I think about the insignificance of things in comparison to the expanse of the universe. How heaven only belongs to us because we are bigger than other animals or insects, when in reality we are tiny ourselves.

To make things or problems even more insignicant, think about the billions of people who have lived and died before us. Our time will come and pass. In the end, no one will care.

Have you already heard about that asteroid that is likely to collide with earth in 2046?

What about the replacement for the replacement?

Um design flaw? What about the burn marks it was hit by something small and fast. very odd that two leaks…..and a leaky nordsteam….design flaw their too?

I wouldn’t get in that leaky, duck tape, death trap of a shitcan for all the money in the fucking world.

This screams cutting back on quality control to me. Same issue in three systems means your QA is not focussing resource onto making sure that system is not going to break again. Given Soyuz and Progress have 50 years of flights with relatively few incidents (Soyuz 56 years, Progress 44 years) they are pretty robust so likely could absorb some drop in production standards and quality assurance. But it seems they have cut the bone so fine they are producing the same fault and their teams are not testing enough for it.

The budget for that is now probably floating somewhere in the Black Sea with Rogozins name on it.

The fleet should be grounded for a serious investigation, but there is no way that is going to happen politically.

I have severe anxiety as well but have really overcome it to a huge extent by constant studying of subjects I loved (ancient civilizations and their spiritual beliefs and practices as well as the cosmos as it tends to tie in among a few other topics that tie in as well). After many years of studying the anxious part of my brain turned into a meditative and contemplative part of thinking instead. My anxiety was cast aside and it is like I can hold a meditation while thinking about regular subjects. Very strange but lifesaving for me.

Not sure being on Reddit will help you with anxiety.
Any form of social media blasting bad news all day amps up anxiety. I like Reddit but too much of it mixed with Twitter and all the noise really creates a lot of anxiety for many people.

That’s a beautiful though process, OP. I kinda do something similar for myself but never tried to put it into words before. Yours are a great explanation of this thinking 👏

Fair enough. Personally, I am appalled at what Putin has done, and also by the Republicans that advocate against supporting the Ukraine.

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I imagine im floating in space, looking at Jupiter and its moons - it calms me

And it doesn't bring up anything of substance about it, just a vague quote.

Do other aspects of nature work? I find being in a forest or at the beach also helps

Me too. I listen to John Michael Godier on YouTube or something similar.

I do that too, to be able to fall asleep. Not only it is an interesting thought process but it completely takes away any thoughts about other shit going on.

We had one replacement, yes, but what about the second replacement?

The nominal Soyuz MS-24 launch is in June, sending three new people up (2*Russia, 1*US, Kononenko could beat the record for total time in space). If this leak pattern holds then MS-23 could develop a problem around late May/early June.

Google Translate doesn't do a terrible job on it. This seems like the most important paragraph:

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>If it is really a problem in production, then the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, on which Prokopiev, Petelin and Rubio should return to Earth, could theoretically have a similar defect. A trend can be observed in the amount of time ships spend in orbit prior to leak incidents. Soyuz MS-22 was launched on September 21, and depressurization occurred on December 15. Progress MS-21 went into orbit on October 26, and leaked on February 11. It turns out that both ships lasted about three months. Soyuz MS-23 launched on February 24, and if it's a manufacturing defect, its days of full-time work may expire as early as early summer.
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>Under these conditions, the earlier launch of Soyuz MS-24, which will allow updating the ISS crew and returning Soyuz MS-23 to Earth, is justified, Izvestia's interlocutors believe.

A bit of an editorialized title but I don’t think that many here will read the Russian text in the linked article.

So much for it being a micro meteorite.

You know what is also making Russia feel the bite? All the western ammunition and equipment that Ukraine is using to defend itself from the Russian invaders that's been raping women, kidnapping children, and committing genocide for the last year

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