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Re:Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Pro... by ivan4th on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:11AM (#17363067)
BTW asked our guide if any of his acquaintances were scavenging this stuff, he said smth like "some did... all of them are already dead"
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Re:Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Pro... by myth_drannon on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:27AM (#17365421)
Maybe he read "Roadside picnic" novel recently and mixed reality with fantasy.
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Re:Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Pro... by orbital-decay on Thursday June 21, 2018 @05:43AM (#17363497)
Probably to scare you out :) These seem to be the Souyz debris (green/gray painting), not too dangerous I imagine. Proton-M remains are completely different story though.
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Re:Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Pro... by ivan4th on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:24AM (#17364003)
These particular pieces may not be dangerous, but some other pieces people could find could be with a higher level of contamination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsymmetrical_dimethylhydrazin...
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Re:Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Pro... by mxvzr on Thursday June 21, 2018 @11:17AM (#17365904)
Wouldn't the harmful stuff eventually dissipate? How long would one have to wait to safely scavenge a booster sitting in the open?
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Re:Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Pro... by PeterisP on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:34PM (#17366660)
It's not possible to safely scavenge a booster sitting in the open, because by the time it could be dissipated it will long be scavenged unsafely by someone else.
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