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Russia plans nuclear power plant on moon within decade (www.rte.ie)

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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They used to do this shit all the time to trick America into wasting time and resources trying to keep up with them

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

As often as not they were chasing Americans' empty promises (and occasionally achieving the impossible as a result).

The hydrogen bomb, the probe into Venus, the Mirr Space Station... all launched in response to American campaigns.

But the USSR of the 60s/70s was a wildly different place from post collapse Nationalist Russia. They scraped much of their R&D infrastructure for parts under Yeltsin.