“In Soviet Russia, space station fly to you”
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Awesome response. Thanks to you and @VenTatsu for the thorough rundown.
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Oh, it’s really all @VenTatsu - almost everything I said I learned from ISS posts they made in other threads about this!
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I think a reasonable response would be “Oh, thank you for letting us know in advance if this happens that the ISS dropping on a populated area is an intentional act of war.” “Should we find out that this is happening, we will consider it tantamount to attacking said city with nuclear weaponry given the energies involved in a mass attack from space, and will respond in an appropriate fashion.”.
The last thing we need is more warmongering, but the only (arguably) beneficial thing about having nukes is the deterrent effect.
This asshole is stating that his government is willing to drop 500 tons from space on a populated area…
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Except they aren’t, really. The Chinese call their astronauts “yuhangyuan” ( 宇航员; cosmic traveler). “Taikonaut” is a weird case – it’s a term invented by Western journalists by combining the Chinese for space “taikong” with “naut”, but that isn’t a word the Chinese themselves ever used.
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Which translates (from conjoined Chinese-Greek) as Star Sailor, just like astronaut does from Greek.
Cosmonaut though…that is Universe Sailor!
Dammit. Need the read the whole thread. Yuhangyuan is also QUITE badass
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I can’t believe there’s an upside to this but you found it 
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Not Sailor Moon, or any of the rest?
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Are you thinking of Sailor Stars?
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Okechobee I’d be concerned about for the damage to the wildlife. Boca Raton? Eh…not so much.
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Nothing special about Kleptocracies in that regard then.
Technically, you can try aiming for Mar-a-Lago, but you’re just as likely to hit New Orleans.
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as opposed to the rest of it 
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What’s the German for “low orbit apes-in-a-can”
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Augenhöhlenaffe.
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He does not appear to threaten anything of the sort, the way it reads to me he is simply saying that if their cooperation is blocked, the ISS will eventually fall out of the sky on the US, Europe, India or China. Probably referring to the fact that NASA relies on Russian rockets.
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That’s a nice, stable orbit you’ve got on your International Space Station…
It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.
:Takes big bite of apple.:
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