Collaborate Disseminate
An article on the history of EPROMs in the Soviet Union by [Vladimir Yakovlev] over at The CPU Shack Museum caught our attention. It is part one of a series …read more Continue reading Exploring the History of EPROM in the Soviet Union
In 1962, Vasily Arkhipov made a fateful decision that averted a nuclear war. Now his story will be sung. Continue reading The Story of the Soviet Submarine Officer Who Saved the World Is Now an Opera
“The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of their murdered children is on your hands,” TVs across the country said. Continue reading Smart TVs in Russia Delivering Anti-War Messages
Newly released CIA documents ask the important question: Is ESP compatible with Marxism? Continue reading CIA Document Claims Soviet Union Was Developing Cybernetic Telepathy
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While early prototypes for SpaceX’s Starship have been exploding fairly regularly at the company’s Texas test facility, the overall program has been moving forward at a terrific pace. The towering spacecraft, which CEO Elon Musk believes will be the key to building a sustainable human colony on Mars, has gone …read more
On August 8th, an experimental nuclear device exploded at a military test facility in Nyonoksa, Russia. Thirty kilometers away, radiation levels in the city of Severodvinsk reportedly peaked at twenty times normal levels for the span of a few hours. Rumors began circulating about the severity of the event, and …read more
Continue reading Echos of the Cold War: Nuclear-Powered Missiles Have Been Tried Before
Skywatchers say Kosmos 482, which was designed to withstand the harsh environment of Venus, will likely land on Earth intact. Continue reading A Defunct Soviet Venus Probe Will Crash Into Earth After Decades in Orbit
With a highly publicized test firing and pledge by President Vladimir Putin that it will soon be deployed to frontline units, Russia’s Avangard hypersonic weapon has officially gone from a secretive development program to an inevitability. The first weapon of its type to enter into active service, it’s capable of delivering a payload to any spot on the planet at speeds up to Mach 27 while remaining effectively unstoppable by conventional missile defense systems because of its incredible speed and enhanced maneuverability compared to traditional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
In a statement made after the successful test of Avangard, which …read more
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union decided to dig a hole for science. Not just any hole, the Kola Superdeep Borehole reached a depth of over 12 kilometers, the deepest at the time and the second deepest today by just a few meters. Since this was one of the few holes dug this deep that wasn’t being drilled for oil, the project was eventually abandoned. [Dmitry] was able to find some core samples from the project though, and he headed up to the ruins of the scientific site with his latest project which produces musical sounds from the core samples. …read more
Continue reading Superdeep Borehole Samples Create Non-boring Music