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joo:
Think about these words. If it had been said "The salaries in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia are quite comparable to the average salaries in America and Canada", then yes, but no.

No, well, then you have to say that gasoline is cheaper for people living in Moscow than it is for people living in Voronezh, for example.
 
Roger:

Not at all, the salaries in Moscow and St. Petersburg are quite comparable to the average salaries in America and Canada. And we don't even take into account the difference in housing prices.

http://www.vz.ru/economy/2011/6/22/501622.html = 40,000 roubles per month

http://moycent.ru/zarplata-rabochix/zarplata-v-ssha/ = $25 an hour

Even in my region, the "super-chic tough guys" prefer property in the US to property in Moscow, where they try to spend most of their time a year (i.e. in the US).

 
IgorM:

http://www.vz.ru/economy/2011/6/22/501622.html = 40,000 roubles per month

http://moycent.ru/zarplata-rabochix/zarplata-v-ssha/ = $25 an hour

Even in my region, the "super-charming tough guys" prefer property in the US to property in Moscow, where they try to spend most of their time a year (i.e. in the US).


Now we are going to get into a maze of pointless arguments. But the phrase was

Или почему в России бензин дороже, чем в той же Америке?

As it turns out, no, it isn't. Let's start with a little humour: let's start with the level of wages. I have a lot of friends left in Moscow, their salaries don't match up, but they are quite comparable to mine. Yes, they get half of it in envelopes, but in Russia, payroll taxes are half what they are in America and Canada. And they don't pay that much for housing. So the balance is more or less comparable. And when I am now paying $65 for a tank of petrol, when two years ago it was $40, I am still stifled by greed.

 
Speaking of Americans. A computer animation of the new landing pattern for the next American Mars rover.


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granit77:
Speaking of Americans. A computer animation of the new landing pattern of the next American Mars rover.


Victor, is this true, or has that become such a mindset? They would make something like a cube, but not a cube, but many of them inscribed into each other - i.e. to make working faces clinging to each other - almost a sphere, and to move all this due to skewed centre of gravity. It seems silly, but it will never get stuck, but it will not go everywhere (the higher the gravity, the higher the permeability) and physically to damage it - you have to try.
 
IgorM:

http://www.vz.ru/economy/2011/6/22/501622.html = 40,000 roubles per month

http://moycent.ru/zarplata-rabochix/zarplata-v-ssha/ = $25 an hour

Even in my region, even the "super-charming tough guys" prefer property in the uS to property in Moscow, where they try to spend most of their time a year (i.e. in the uS).


Naturally. After all, the average US citizen needs three annual salaries to buy a house, whereas in Russia it takes twelve. It is the same proportion as with petrol.
 
They would have done, that's a good point. They did, there were contests of the fanciest designs on TV, but even the tracked variants didn't make it to the proving ground, only wheeled vehicles were left. The last one was in inflatable constructions, bouncing like a ball. The current one is designed formore mass and is subject to quite a lot of criticism.
The funny thing is that the previous two wheeled Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been roaming Mars since January 2004, dozens of times past all warranty periods. Everyone has forgotten by now, and they are roaming, taking pictures, doing analyses, etc. At least in 2010 they were still working, haven't looked any further.

A 25 cm iron meteorite discovered by the Opportunity rover.
 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

problem number one - the new rover will be two or three times larger than its older brothers in size of a small car, while the capsule with balls weighs almost as much as the rovers themselves - no one will carry extra weight to such a distance.

Problem number two - Mars has a very rarefied atmosphere, which is a hundred times thinner than on Earth, hence a huge parachute is required.

That is why it was decided to have a high-speed parachute system to slow capsule down to below sonic speed, and then to land with rocket engines.

by the way - solar panels will be replaced by Russian designed nuclear reactor similar to one used on soviet low orbital spy satellites :)

 
As you pick at your dung heap, it's hard to imagine that at the same time "spaceships are plying the universe".
One ironclad is running around Mars for the seventh year, while another tracks it from Martian orbit and corrects its route.

 

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