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Higher res of >>467169 + more art of it







Fake E: goddomot, did I just do what I think I did? Shit that is not a good habit.

Real E: Waaaaait a second.... is it just me or are the third and fourth pics a different plane?

Damn that's one sexy plane.

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Originally Posted by Siliconmaster482

Apparently the Buran was a semi-successful Soviet shuttle project which never went anywhere after the space program was scrapped in '93. The Buran was stored in a hanger until 2002, when the hanger collapsed, resulting in the destruction of the shuttle.

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Looks more like the shuttle somehow got deepfried first.

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Originally Posted by Moses

Looks more like the shuttle somehow got deepfried first.

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Yeah, Idk about that. I just went off the Wikipedia page. Maybe the collapse was caused by a fire. :shrug:

No fire, just rubble. The roof collapsed from "disrepair", iirc.
I smell conspiracy. :tinfoil:

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Originally Posted by Cagerrin

Real E: Waaaaait a second.... is it just me or are the third and fourth pics a different plane?

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Sukhoi haven't released a single image of it, not even a quick scribble done on a napkin. The dude's just taking logical design features and making his own concept of what it might look like.

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Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar

No fire, just rubble. The roof collapsed from "disrepair", iirc. I smell conspiracy.

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It's Russia, that makes perfect sense.

I've got some nice high res panoramics for ya.

:ross:

e:gah must cum around more rep!

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http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...pz47/Earth.jpg
Picture of Earth, taken just about half an hour ago from a live feed of some satellite in orbit right now (lost the link, will try to dig it up again).