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[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, the Soviet engines were a lot harder to short out, so pencils weren't as big a problem in their spacecraft.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

the Soviet engines were a lot harder to short out,

bwahaha this is idiotic. anyone familiar with the long litany of rocket failures out of baiknor knows their engines weren't 'harder to short out' whatever silly shit you mean with it.

short out what? the alternator? bwahahahahaahahahaha

short out the fuse box? dear god, I'm dying here