**Official** Physicists are freaks and very weird dudes LC Thread

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Hmm, I hope they removed all the asbestos first.

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https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1361831171122946048?s=21

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The Soviet Union imploded. Reagan had practically nothing to do with it.

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Chernobyl was the catalyst acording to some

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I think the main cause was just decades of being the Soviet Union.

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Gorby was the unsung hero of the era, tbh.

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Being dependent on your declared enemy for food during winter months was an unmistakeable sign that it couldn’t continue indefinitely. The hierarchy finally recognised this when they appointed Gorbachev to reform the country, but probably didn’t anticipate the momentum of his changes and how pro-West his successor would be.

The only connection with Reagan was when the Challenger, which was supposed to be the crown jewels of his presidency, blew up and made him look elsewhere for a legacy - detente with the USSR.

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Not how people here remember it apparently

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Nor people in the US, but it’s still wrong. Ask people what they think Reagan did to end the Soviet Union and all you’ll get is a bunch of vague non-answers.

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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

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Just goes to show it never hurts to ask imo.

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That’s news to me. I doubt any US-based poster remembers it this way. I recall he’d wanted to do a call to Challenger during the State of the Union and no doubt he wanted the PR from McAauliffe being a teacher in space but that’s about it.

Kennedy is the only president I strongly associate with space exploration. Been downhill since then.

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This is very common. My dentist is a Russian immigrant to Canada, he has a copy of Road to Serfdom in his office.

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Yeah, I’m not sure ferrying people up to the ISS was ever intended to be a huge part of the Reagan legacy.

5952

Star Wars was supposed to be. Took Trump to make the insane Space Force.

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Most outstanding figure in world history for Russians? Reagan doesn’t make the list. Stalin is #1. Not kidding. Napoleon makes the list too. Killing a lot of Russians apparently popular.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/26/for-russians-stalin-is-the-most-outstanding-figure-in-world-history-putin-is-next/

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I laugh every time I see this.

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I’m not sure how serious Star Wars ever was. Could have been a bluff to get the Soviets to expend resources. No doubt there were people who believed it was a practical idea but it was and remains pretty far out there.

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@superuberbob

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Yup. Good thing my mother doesn’t golf. There’s no way that there aren’t more accidents with those than reported in The Villages.