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1. Alias says:

   April 24, 2010 at 3:38 am

   It seems that the US stole the soviet design…
   or… wait… I be trollin’

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2. deuce says:

   April 24, 2010 at 3:50 am

   Pretty bad-ass looking design… too bad it never actually worked.

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   • conan776 says:

     April 25, 2010 at 12:00 pm

     Oh c’mon they only blow up like every 20 times.

     Oooh, you mean the Russian one….

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3. asymon says:

   April 24, 2010 at 4:22 am

   practice & theory

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4. Alias says:

   April 24, 2010 at 5:11 am

   It did actually work.
   It flew once… the orbital flight lasted 205 minutes… during that time, Buran made two full laps around the Earth
   it had no pilots whatsoever
   every stage of the flight was controlled by a computer
   unlike the US shuttle, which is traditionally being landed manually
   so… it was a pretty badass russian toy…

   but still
   no one gives a fuck about all that shit I just wrote (even me)

   so I’ll just add some boobs to my post
   (. )( .)

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   • NoOneInParticular says:

     April 24, 2010 at 11:47 am

     I marked you + for the boobs, not the info. 🙂

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     • v0id says:

       April 24, 2010 at 12:50 pm

       I marked you + for the fact that you marked him + for the boobs and not the info.

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       • jediadept says:

         April 24, 2010 at 2:08 pm

         I marked you +, for the fact that you marked NoOneInParticular +, for marking Alias +, for the boobs and not the info.

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         • Alias says:

           April 24, 2010 at 9:45 pm

           Marked all of you +, just because I can

5. JimsShip says:

   April 24, 2010 at 6:34 am

   Our thrusting rockets are bigger. Just sayin’.

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   • fuckwhatafuckingdumbfuckingfuckassfuck says:

     April 24, 2010 at 8:08 am

     buran is longer than shuttle

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   • natedog says:

     April 24, 2010 at 9:41 am

     buran has a reservoir tip, also

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   • WistfulD says:

     April 24, 2010 at 10:31 am

     That’s because it was heavier. Given that the shuttle was already excessively heavy (because the military wanted the option of using it as a heavy lift vehicle for potential defense projects in space which never materialized), that means that this thing must have been ridiculously overbuilt.

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6. Phyreblade says:

   April 24, 2010 at 11:43 am

   ‘Poast?

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7. rainman97361 says:

   April 24, 2010 at 6:58 pm

   Russia never really could do much of anything original w/o copying us first.

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   • billcar50 says:

     April 24, 2010 at 11:24 pm

     *sigh*

     Inevitable post is inevitable.

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8. barcrest says:

   April 26, 2010 at 4:38 am

   Those images are not to the same scale, the russian one is bigger. IIRC One of the russian ones is in austrialia sitting somewhere rotting.

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   • atkinson says:

     April 26, 2010 at 6:17 am

     Shuttle: Length: 37.25 m Total: 56.00 m
     Buran: Length: 36.37 m Total: 58.77 m
     www.astronautix.com/

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   • Hob says:

     April 26, 2010 at 8:45 am

     Buran was destroyed when the hangar it was in collapsed. Can you see it?

     www.buran.ru/images/jpg/bbur89.jpg

     There’s one left over thats not complete sitting at the cosmodrome
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program

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