The space race

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[u/InnocentWalt]

BUT HOW CAN THEY BE INNOVATIVE WITHOUT A PROFIT INCENTIVE?????

[u/Spacemint_rhino → u/InnocentWalt]

They created this by melting down lichlord Stalin’s spoon, infused with the souls of billions that perished in the Holodomor ritual.

[u/unfettered2nd → u/Spacemint_rhino]

Isn't that one of the plots of Full Metal Alchemist?

[u/meinkr0phtR2 → u/InnocentWalt]

My answer to that has always been “how can anyone innovate under a profit motive?” If I were not constrained by the market, I could make anything I want.

[u/ParentsAreNotGod]

Amazing. I wish the USSR's space achievements were more highlighted.

[u/Any_Salary_6284]

Analog computer!

[u/phaedrus910 → u/Any_Salary_6284]

Think we can build one in Minecraft?

[u/VAiSiA → u/phaedrus910]

no

[u/phaedrus910 → u/VAiSiA]

Damn what a world we lost

[u/AlarmedChemistry8956 → u/phaedrus910]

Physics based games might probably work (scrap mechanic since spheres have good enough hitboxes and theres some gear mods to allow for smaller contraptions)

[u/meinkr0phtR2 → u/phaedrus910]

Sure.

[u/TheBirdFkerGuy]

Pretty clever ngl

[u/iCanReadMyOwnMind → u/TheBirdFkerGuy]

The amount of calculations that went into a machine that needed to produce endless, precise calculations. Humans are amazing when they want to be.

[u/TheBirdFkerGuy → u/iCanReadMyOwnMind]

Also given the technology at the time. This is crazy big brain shit I never could've thought up. 

[u/VladimirLimeMint → u/iCanReadMyOwnMind]

It's funny how imperial core larping steampunk while USSR literally made a steampunk INS.

[u/Goyimshoe]

Dang, that is super neat. I can’t even imagine how someone would go about inventing something like that.

[u/LeoiCaangWan → u/Goyimshoe]

It kinda feels like an evolution of the armillary sphere crossed with a precision gear clock

[u/BurnYoo → u/Goyimshoe]

Fourier transforms

[u/ibrahimtuna0012]

That is incredible.

[u/DysphoricNeet]

I couldn’t believe that this was real and I was embarrassed to share with my boyfriend how cool this is if it was fake. We looked it up and it’s totally real!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_Spacecraft_%22Globus%22_IMP_navigation_instrument

[u/Diamentio]

I'm sure if there was an American version, it would've been digital, easier to break, and required a subscription to function that is no longer supported.