#feoktistov

[mrbeanautopsyvideo]

From left to right: Gagarin, Titov, Nikolayev, Popovych, Bykovsky, Tereshkova, Feoktistov, Komarov, Yegorov, Belyayev, Leonov

[sovietpostcards]

Soviet cosmonauts - set of 13 pins

Made of a dark brown metal (with bits of green tinge due to age) with glass (sitall) inserts. Size 3.5 cm (1.3").

Includes the following personalities: Sergey Korolyov (space science mastermind), Valentina Tereshkova, Feoktistov (the pentagon-shaped one), Shonin, Dobrovolsky, Volkov, Yeliseyev, Khrunov, Belyayev, Gorbatko, Beregovoy, Popovich, Filipchenko.

Available in my shop for $7/set + $11 international registered shipping

Message me if you want to buy this! Other items in my shop. I combine shipping. How to buy.

[un-ionizetheradlab]

1, 3, 8, 15

1 - fave astronaut(s)

Astronauts: David Scott, Gus Grissom, Thomas Stafford, Christa McAuliffe

Cosmonauts: Sergei Krikalev, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Alexei Leonov, Yuri Gagarin

3 - fave mission patch(es)

Apollo 13

Apollo-Soyuz

ISS Expedition 11

8 - fave space book

Two Sides of the Moon by David Scott and Alexei Leonov. I have a copy that is signed by both of them!!

15 - what food would you most want aboard?

Oooh that's a good question. I'd say some fresh fruit, raspberries maybe.

Space Asks!

[maylegacy-sims4]

As soon as Esmeralda and La'ei returned from their wedding, they had a science baby... and it was twins and they're both werewolves even though Esmeralda is just a dormant wolf.

The house was too big to care for the babies because I swear babies are harder than they were before and the sims just pause for long amounts of time and don't complete tasks or sims put the baby down and then someone else comes over and picks it up, so annoying, so I redid the house again. I made a room with a patio and an ensuite bathroom that I locked and made the toddler/infant area and that mostly worked.

The twins are both boys and their names are Yuri and Aleksandr.

The twins aged up to toddlers and they science baby'd again and they had another son, named Georgy. Georgy is genderfluid (I decided on that because when he aged up to a toddler he had a CC hair that was pigtails)

Then they were running out of space in the household, so I increased the household size and they had another science baby, this time the Legacy Heir and named her Valentina. I had Jasper move in with the Volkov's so he could be with other werewolves (because I almost deleted Georgy when I went into the CAS mode because of the household size cheat) and plus Jasper kept getting very destructive.

I knocked Valentina's milestones out of the park. She got top notch infant but she didn't end up getting top notch toddler which I think is pretty wild because she was attended to constantly.

This is the first time I've gotten the Loves Books toddler quirk and I love it so much.

Here's toddler Valentina

La'ei took the kids to an arcade-y restaurant after Kya died

The kids are all named after Russian Cosmonauts because Esmeralda is an astronaut and I went with the Russians because they were the first humans in space and the first woman in space was Russian, Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space and the other boys are named for Aleksandr Skvortsov and Georgy Beregovoy which I just chose because I liked the names and the spellings (though I have a few regrets that I didn't use Konstantin Feoktistov)

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space - I toyed with the idea of making Valentina's name Laika instead for the dog Laika who went up to space but I went with Valentina. However, Esmeralda got dog lover as her randomized trait when she aged to a child and I think that's a perfect reason to adopt a dog and name it Laika...

[workersolidarity]

🇦🇷🇷🇺 RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR HOPES TO MAINTAIN COOPERATION AND STRENGTHEN TIES WITH THE NEW ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT AFTER MILEI WINS ELECTION

🇦🇷 Argentina's president-elect is the far-right politician Javier Milei, declared his rival, Sergio Massa, a candidate from the ruling party.

With 86.59% of the votes counted, Milei secures victory with 55.95%.

Milei advocates for economic dollarization, privatization, including in education and healthcare, opposes collaboration with China, Brazil, and Russia in favor of the United States and Israel. Additionally, Milei is against Argentina joining BRICS.

🇷🇺 Russia expects that the new President of Argentina, Milei, will remain committed to multipolarity, which will be facilitated by the country's accession to BRICS, Ambassador Feoktistov said.

According to him, Moscow hopes to strengthen cooperation with Argentina under the new cabinet, is ready to work together regardless of the political situation, will always remain a friend for this country, ready to lend a helping hand, and is confident that this attitude is also inherent in the Argentines.

🔴 @DDGeopolitics

@RiaNovosti

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[la-cosmonauta-extraterrestre]

1 and 6 for the space ask!

1 - fave astronaut(s)

Astronauts: Sally Ride, Mae Jemison

(Honourable mention to Ilan Ramon, may his memory be a blessing)

Cosmonauts: Konstantin Feoktistov, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova (even if she's super problematic)

6 - mission you wish you could go on (and what role you’d play)

Well, if we look at the existence of the ISS as one big mission, I wish I could visit the ISS before the de-commission it in a few years. My role would probably be something like "payload specialist", but specifically, with my physics bachelor's and master's degrees, I would be well suited to performing the experiments that they do on the ISS. I could probably also do some language and translation work on the ISS given my high-level Russian.

Of course, they would never send me to the ISS because I have some health problems that would disqualify me from becoming an astronaut (and perhaps going up at all). I'm not a millionaire who could pay for my own ticket if by some miracle I was allowed to go up, either.

[mariacallous]

The FSB plot that disappeared half a billion dollars

A new look at an old story: “Kirill Cherkalin’s billions” (rubles, not dollars) got another look last week from Novaya Gazeta special correspondent Irek Murtazin, whose crime-beat reporting is invariably detailed, chalked full of saucy rumors, and brain-numbingly long. This new article was published 10 days after a military court overturned the bribery conviction of Dmitry Frolov (a former deputy head of the FSB’s economic crimes division) and closed the case against him.

The gist: Murtazin says the authorities spent years pursuing Frolov and his accomplices on flimsy bribery and fraud charges to conceal a vast FSB criminal conspiracy in Russia’s banking industry.

Let’s break down the sequence of events, but beware that it’s a winding road.

Mystery Incorporated: Before his arrest in April 2019, Kirill Cherkalin was the fast-rising, well-connected head of the FSB Economic Security Directorate’s enormously powerful bank crimes division. The “first stone in the avalanche” that exposed “Cherkalin’s billions” was the arrest of one of his subordinates in a different extortion case. Colonel Mikhail Gorbatov rolled on his boss to save his own skin, testifying to a bribery scheme involving Cherkalin.

According to Murtazin, then-FSB Internal Affairs head General Alexey Komkov handled Gorbatov’s testimony very cautiously, knowing that Cherkalin enjoyed good relationships with then-FSB First Deputy Director Sergey Smirnov and then National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.

Komkov reported Gorbatov’s claims to FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, who ordered a secret investigation, bringing in two of Cherkalin’s agency adversaries who’d previously failed to oust him from the FSB’s central office. The surveillance of Cherkalin and others led to raids that uncovered staggering amounts of cash.

Cherkalin’s other disappearing act: A few weeks after his arrest, Cherkalin followed in Gorbatov’s footsteps by seeking a plea deal. In a signed statement, he named a powerful retired FSB general who allegedly “provided ‘protection’ to several credit organizations” during his service.

Speculation on Telegram says this retired FSB general was likely Oleg Feoktistov, whose work in protective custody and son-in-law link him to a businessman who claims to have been defrauded by Cherkalin and his associates.

Instead of leading to an even higher-profile prosecution, however, Cherkalin’s statement soon vanished from his case materials, and the investigation was transferred to a less experienced official and merged with lesser fraud charges against Frolov and another retired FSB officer.

To accommodate this more “vegetarian” prosecution, Cherkalin disavowed his earlier confession and submitted a new one that mentioned neither the FSB general’s name nor the banks involved in the protection racket. He was ultimately sentenced to seven years but went free in February 2024.

In November 2019, by accident or on purpose, information leaked to the press that Cherkalin testified that most of the 12 billion rubles discovered at his apartments in police raids belonged to Valery Miroshnikov, the former deputy head of the Deposit Insurance Agency — Russia’s state corporation responsible for various insolvency procedures. (Miroshnikov fled the country immediately after Cherkalin’s arrest.)

So, what was this vast conspiracy? Irek Murtazin’s sources claim that Miroshnikov, Cherkalin, and others learned about roughly 2 trillion rubles (more than $20.6 billion in today’s currency) in capital shortfalls at Russian banks accumulated between 2013 and 2017 and offered the banks’ owners a grace period of several months to purge their records, transfer money to foreign accounts, flee the country, and pose abroad as “victims of the regime” — all in exchange for up to 30 percent of the size of individual institutions’ capital shortfalls. (The state then rescued or restructured these banks at taxpayers’ expense.)

According to Murtazin, Miroshnikov kept half of the proceeds from the criminal scheme, Cherkalin went home with a quarter, and their other accomplices claimed the remaining 25 percent. Murtazin reasons that the cash found at Cherkalin’s homes was all his, meaning the total profits were roughly 50 billion rubles (more than $516 million in today’s currency).

Lest ye forget: Alexander Zheleznyak says Kirill Cherkalin offered him “protection” in 2014. Zheleznyak is one of the bankers who donated to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation allegedly in return for “reputation laundering,” according to reports like Maxim Katz’s recent (and controversial) investigation.

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MLA+ architects, XIANGMI PARK SCIENCE LIBRARY, SHENZEN / CHINA

The library is a lightweight building, connected to a ‘tree top walk’, a bridge through the park. Public spaces are lifted from the ground to emphasize the experience of nature and to create a vista terrace.

The library also is a public staircase. It serves as a connecting element between the level of the bridge with the ground floor

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[un-ionizetheradlab]

Omg that makes a lot of sense!! Also poor Voskhod-1 crew having to literally sit on top of one another for 24 hours. :P 

First cosmonauts in space, from left to right:

Yuri Gagarin-Vostok 1

Gherman Titov-Vostok 2

Andriyan Nikolayev-Vostok 3

Pavel Popovich-Vostok 4

Valery Bykovsky-Vostok 5

Valentina Tereshkova-Vostok 6

Konstantin Feoktistov-Voskhod 1

Vladimir Komarov-Voskhod 1

Boris Yegorov-Voskhod 1

Pavel Belyayev-Voskhod 2

Alexey Leonov-Voskhod 2

[gopakfilms]

http://cherkasy.life

[arionvulgaris]

Established canonical ages for A Headfull of Dreams, a fic series set in 2019.

Pavel Belyayev - 39 (the token GenX)

Vladimir Komarov - 34

Andriyan Nikolayev - 33

Konstantin Feoktistov - 32

Alexei Leonov - 30

Yuri Gagarin, Valery Bykovsky, Boris Yegorov - 27

Valentina Tereshkova, Gherman Titov - 26

@tiggerpilot @cosmo-naute @bewareofdragon @lyonyaonthemoon

[un-ionizetheradlab]

sounds like our kinda humor @mixednotmatched​

it’s time to activate this blog again!!!!

[dare-g]

Cosmic Journey (1936)

[gusgrissom]

How should Dave [Scott] and I treat Colonel Pavel Belyaev and Mr. Konstantin Feoktistov, products of a hostile system, yet comrades in a sense Marx never envisioned? We decided to be as friendly and open as possible. Soon the four of us were seated around a table, chatting amiably through an interpreter and chugalugging vodka. They inquired as to the health of the Grissom-White-Chaffee wives, and we responded with similar concern for the widow Komarov. We drank toasts to no more space accidents, we drank toasts to increased cooperation between our two nations, and we drank toasts to a couple of other things that slip my mind.

Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York: 1974), 278-279.

[un-ionizetheradlab]

I support this content^

i just remembered that when doing a presentation about one day in the life of ivan denisovich by aleksandr solzhenitsyn, i gave one of the characters the last name komarova,,, named after vladimir komarov.... i really am that nerdy huh

[gettothedancing]

Since the 1980s, social psychologists like Paul Rozin, his celebrity student Jonathan Haidt, Mark Schaller, and many other brilliant people began to look closer at why humans experience disgust. Since then, the field has grown to include hard bioscience data, which corroborate and elaborate the psych findings. Fundamentally, the results show the emotion of disgust evolved to protect from communicable diseases by activating the body’s pathogen avoidance reflexes, such as recoiling, purging, and social distancing—defined collectively as the “behavioral immune system.”

The behavioral immune system, like the fear-driven “freeze-fight-or-flight” reflex, is autonomously controlled, independently of rational thought, by subconscious processes prone to false alarm. Its reactions to disgust stimuli are “immediate and compelling even in the face of their apparently irrational nature.” It causes a profound shift from attraction to repulsion, seemingly in an instant, with little rational basis therefore apparent to the unaffected observer.

George Orwell wrote that four words revealed the real secret of class distinctions in his time: “The lower classes smell. . . . It is when members of the in-group are “brought up to believe that [members of the out-group] are dirty that the harm is done,” Orwell wrote. Disgust, perhaps more so than fear or greed, appears to be the primary source of most human conflict.

To ease a society’s shift toward stratification and autocracy, disgust activates profound personality changes. Exposure to disgust stimuli lowers individualism, tolerance, extraversion, and openness to new experiences. At the same time, disgust increases obedience, ethnocentrism, sexual puritanism, and conformity.

Before modern medicine, disgust researchers argue, “the prevention of infection depended substantially on superstitious adherence to local rituals and other cultural norms,” as invented and enforced through moral condemnation by a local in-group elite. Such personality changes can make superstition the new norm in a formerly rational society.

New data collected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic accord with disgust research predictions. Pre-pandemic disgust sensitivity in individual subjects neatly tracks with their reported anxiety during the pandemic. Previously measured disgust sensitivity levels in Americans, Poles, and Australians have significantly increased since lockdowns began.

Instead of sounding the alarm, however, the disgust field seems to be largely missing the significance of its own predictions. This may be due to an unfortunate taste among some liberal psychologists and psychiatrists for diagnosing those they identify as conservatives with having various mental weaknesses relative to liberals, including a higher sensitivity to disgust.

The “disease theory of democracy” authors, for example, oddly concluded that collectivism is a conservative value and that liberals are rugged individualists. Before the pandemic, Haidt condescended: “Conservatives react more strongly than liberals to signs of danger, including the threat of germs and contamination, and even low-level threats such as sudden blasts of white noise.”

After “conservatives” generally did not react this way to COVID-19, but “liberals” did, Vox’s Ezra Klein interviewed Haidt for an article that asked: “Why are liberals more afraid of the coronavirus than conservatives?” Haidt blamed it on Trump. “Liberals were acting out of care, not fear,” Klein paraphrased another liberal psychologist’s voxplanation. . . .

Right before COVID-19 emerged, Yale University historian Frank Snowden noted how early modern European campaigns against the bubonic plague “marked a vast extension of state power into spheres of human life that had never before been subject to political authority.” In “Epidemics and Society,” a history book that now reads like prophecy, Snowden wrote that in the Age of Absolutism ushered in by the Black Death, “the unanswerable argument of a public health emergency” justified “control over the economy and the movement of people,” “surveillance and forcible detention,” “the invasion of homes and the extinction of civil liberties.” The future looks similarly grim.

There is, however, one major aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic that prevents a return to autocracy from becoming an entirely foregone conclusion. Compared to past pandemics, the coronavirus is not exactly virulent. There are no bodies in the streets. Statistically, many people do not personally know anyone who died of the disease. Most, however, know someone who caught it and recovered.

COVID-19 risk salience is largely constructed by received “expert” wisdom, in the form of media reports and government lockdown orders. In many ways, both the risk and the wisdom now appear to be illusory. From CDC to CNN, public trust is cratering from low to none, and even the skeptics might hope the illusion will soon fade away.

Folk wisdom archetypes, like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and “Chicken Little,” educate children to recognize fearmongering by both rational and irrational actors, as well as to guard against the false alarms fear often causes. No such explicit advice yet exists for disgust. In light of recent science and history, however, society would be well advised to stop feeding its disgust mongers.