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does anyone want to be an astronaut here?

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If your answer is "yes", then buy your own space shuttle now!

LOL, world is a weird place, Soviets kept everything secret and now Russians are selling everything at the lowest price - and plenty of this stuff ends up in USofA. 30 years ago you'd be taken to "looney town" for just saying this is gonna happen eventually.


No, I'm not dead - I'm just retired...
I saw the original theatrical release of the Old Trilogy on the big screen and I'm proud of it...
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
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Makes me wish I could read polish or russian or whatever language that is.
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Also makes me wonder what the currency exchange rates are right now.
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Polish. (Russian isn't written in Roman letters. xD)

Moll.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Makes me wish I could read polish or russian or whatever language that is.
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Also makes me wonder what the currency exchange rates are right now.


why do you want to buy it
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I don't know...
conversation piece??
"What is that in your backyard?"
"Oh, that? It just a Soviet-era space shuttle. I got it off the Internet."

I wasn't seriously interested. I just want to see what price its going for.
Like I could afford it...
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Originally posted by: starkiller
Also makes me wonder what the currency exchange rates are right now.

Oh, that's easy, look for PLN acronym in the exchange rate charts, easily found on internet.

Today it was: 100 USD = 365.51 PLN


So this piece of space technology is sold for the price of junk.
I saw the original theatrical release of the Old Trilogy on the big screen and I'm proud of it...
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
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I most certanly do not want to be an astronaut. I get nervous just boarding an airplane, I would probably scream in terror and/or faint if I space traveled.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: starkiller
Also makes me wonder what the currency exchange rates are right now.

Oh, that's easy, look for PLN acronym in the exchange rate charts, easily found on internet.

Today it was: 100 USD = 365.51 PLN


So this piece of space technology is sold for the price of junk.
If I did my math right, the top bid is roughly 6200 USD.

I take back what I said...I could afford it.
But, besides to say I own a Russian shuttle, would I (or anyone) want it?

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Originally posted by: starkiller
Also makes me wonder what the currency exchange rates are right now.

Oh, that's easy, look for PLN acronym in the exchange rate charts, easily found on internet.

Today it was: 100 USD = 365.51 PLN


So this piece of space technology is sold for the price of junk.
If I did my math right, the top bid is roughly 6200 USD.

I take back what I said...I could afford it.
But, besides to say I own a Russian shuttle, would I (or anyone) want it?


Well, it's an investiment. Right now, russian space ships are as useless as pink curtains in a blind man's home, but when space travel becomes a common event, you'll be able to sell this ship for a whole lot of money.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. But I now have an old high school friend who works as an engineer at NASA and, just to razz him, I say there's no way in hell I would ever board something he may have had a hand in designing.

RRS!!! Where the hell ya been, buddy?
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Workin'.... but let's play&pretend I was lying on the beach all that time, OK?
Now I know that at least good old Bossk missed me
I saw the original theatrical release of the Old Trilogy on the big screen and I'm proud of it...
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Damn right! The boards lack the Polish influence when you're not here!
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fuck it... everybody give me money, so i can leave this rock and start a motti's intergalactic boozebar franchise...
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fuck it... everybody give me money, so i can leave this rock and start a motti's intergalactic boozebar franchise...


An intergalactic boozebar, also known as russian space station MIR.

Ouch, that's it, I'm out of here, thank you all *drops mic, leaves *
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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More like he drops his mic and runs as the ragtag remnants of the KGB run him down.
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More like he drops his mic and runs as the ragtag remnants of the KGB run him down.


That's exactly how my stand up comediant carrier ended. Only in a more violent way.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering