"Jeff Findley" wrote:

"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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"Jeff Findley" wrote:
Nothing is 100% safe. But the Russians clearly have more experience with
space staions than the US. That's an undisputable fact.

What is disputable is whether that experience is in fact worth
anything. It provided them with a bin of spare designs and parts to
base Zarya and Zvezda on, but beyond that the advantage is what?

They have the operational experience to know that things break.

Advantage: Unproven. The US knows full well that things break as
well.

This means they know they have to plan for such events.

Advantage: Unproven. The US has long history of preparing repair
procedures, planning alternate missions, providing backups....

It also means that they don't "freak out" as much as their US counterparts
when something goes wrong.

Unproveable emotional statement.

Of course, you'll point out that given their history with submarines, they
appear to be less concerned with loss of hardware and loss of life than
their US counterparts. I can't dispute that.

The weird part is they were inconsistent as hell with that attitude.

D.
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