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Required to fend off hypothetical bears or actual ones? I can find no source mentioning an actual encounter with wild animals. Also it seems like we should be p
by bagacrap 4y ago
Required to fend off hypothetical bears or actual ones? I can find no source mentioning an actual encounter with wild animals. Also it seems like we should be past the days of leaving cosmo/astronauts in the wilderness by themselves for 3 days before picking them up.
- bombcar 4y agoSeems like theoretical bears according to wikipedia: > The location in which the capsule touched down was too dense for a helicopter to land and recover the crew. Leonov and Belyayev could have likely been recovered by a helicopter with the use of a rope and ladder or rescue basket but Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev strictly prohibited cosmonauts to be rescued with those methods. [why?] This resulted in Leonov and Belyayev spending a total of 3 days, two nights, in the forest before finally being recovered. The cosmonauts did come partially equipped for this situation taking a survival kit which included a knife and a pistol. (Loving the why) However "we went to space but our cosmonauts got eaten by bears on landing" would be pretty high on the "black eye" scale.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoMaybe they could just deliver the guns by helicopter.
- throwaway744678 4y agoOr shoot the bears from the helicopter, full "Apocalypse now" style!
- bombcar 4y agoBut there weren't any bears, they should have delivered some bears by helicopter first.
- oneoff786 4y agoA shame there’s no mod for this design challenge in KSP
- yellowapple 4y agoI'm sure BDArmory could get you most of the way there.
- dahfizz 4y agoDid you wait until after you got covid to take the vaccine? There is a known danger of bear attacks[1] and we have a safe & effective countermeasure. Why not be prepared? [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bears-eat-wealthy-couple-and-pilot-after-helicopter-crash-in-wilderness/ar-AAZJDWR https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bears-eat-wealthy-coupl...
- markstos 4y agoBecause there's also a known danger of mental health challenges with astronauts and that risk must be weight against potential bear attacks.
- throw1234651234 4y agoThis is comical. There are a 1000 of other ways to make things go wrong in space.
- maest 4y agoSurely adding the 1001st way is a way of increasing the chance of things going wrong. I don't understand why some people refuse to accept this is a matter of tradeoffs and the presence of a gun isn't an absolutely good or bad thing.
- hourago 4y agoMany people in the USA see guns with religious fervour. It's not a matter of logic or risk mitigation, it's a matter of faith in guns.
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- mnd999 4y agoIf you read TFA there is a perfectly reasonable suggestion that the gun should be only accessible from outside the capsule, thus reserving it for its intended use after landing. That suggestion was rebuffed.
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- SkittyDog 4y agoI have some friends who've done week-long ski tours in remote parts of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Their guides all carried serious rifles or shotguns with slugs, and made sure everyone in the party knew how to shoot. Their closest Grizzly encounter was a bear that stumbled across them, and charged at their lead skier from ~200m out. The guide shot the bear twice, but it still managed to get within 20m of the group before it dropped. Here in the US, I know two hikers who've been attacked by Grizzlies in the Rockies, and another guy who got jumped in Alaska. All three survived, but required medical evacuation and hospitalization... The guy in Alaska nearly bled to death from a broken rib tearing into the blood vessels feeding his kidney. So I'm not sure what the likelihood of bear attacks would be--but it does happen, and the consequences can be quite severe.