this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
91 points (97.9% liked)

GenZedong

4186 readers
25 users here now

This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.

This community is for posts about Marxism and geopolitics (including shitposts to some extent). Serious posts can be posted here or in /c/GenZhou. Reactionary or ultra-leftist cringe posts belong in /c/shitreactionariessay or /c/shitultrassay respectively.

We have a Matrix homeserver and a Matrix space. See this thread for more information. If you believe the server may be down, check the status on status.elara.ws.

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Today's picture depicts astronauts on the Tiangong space station, guaranteed 100% free of Nazis. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!

We have a Matrix homeserver at genzedong.xyz. See this thread for information about our Matrix space.

Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna's Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did this really work? I didn't realize it was possible to safely perform nuclear fission in such a (relatively) tiny space

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It did work. The technology was lost alongside the USSR (yes, it is possible to lose technology). Rosatom is currently fiddling with floating reactors, in the format of a cargo boat

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

that's amazing and tragic

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't give the dolphins access to nuclear power. We've been warned about this already!

[–] ronweasleysl@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you share some sources for this? This sounds both amazing and extremely tragic.

[–] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://hexbear.net/comment/3789012

Someone else posted an authoritative looking PDF that says that the technical plans for the thing were declassified a few years ago. I don't see any basis for describing the tech as lost, actually kinda concerning nobody else called that claim out.

Like don't get me wrong I share the sense of grief for lost potential (esp wrt space exploration) but let's stick to reality

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

For the reactor itself? The link is in the post. For the floating one? I can offer wikifedia

[–] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If u read the link it says the whole plant takes up 4 separate platforms like the one in the picture. So not that tiny.