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[comicchannel]

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[jurph]

This is a short clip from 1986 featuring a Soviet ICBM called the SS-18 "Satan". This was technically the second version, and the system was being qualified with its first live launch from a silo. The SS-18 is "cold launched" which means it is stored in a silo, but a tiny explosion inside the silo is intended to fling the missile up into the air before its engines turn on. This greatly reduces the wear-and-tear on both the silo and the missile, since the heat and acoustic damage from a full-on rocket engine is really hard to design for.

The way this is supposed to work is that the missile's guidance system and accelerometers are supposed to be running when you pop it out into the air, and when the guidance system detects that it's starting to fall backwards, it lights the engines and flies away. In this case, that did not happen.

Instead, a 3m x 25m cylinder full of really dangerous flammable chemicals - which are designed to explode when mixed - fell from a great height into the silo, consuming all of the fuel and oxidizer in an instant. Nothing remained except a crater.

[thelongveinofthelaw]

"...I have nothing more to give you than my life." The Boss - MGS3: Snake Eater

I've been generally trying to take it slower and just work on doing things like shading and copying a picture really carefully and I'm not sure I'm learning or developing but <3 Boss...

[musicainextenso]

Welcome to the last episode of this week of Russian composers. I decided to look into a more characteristically “Russian” themed work by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky. A lesser known work by this very popular composer, “The Voyevoda” (a symphonic ballade) is a short orchestral piece based off of a Mickiewicz poem of the same name. Its obscurity is because of Tchaikovsky acting as his own self-critic and destroying scores he thought were mediocre. He ended up hating this work, having little good to say about it. But the score survived and I’m not exactly sure what it is that made Tchaikovsky hate it so much. As one would expect, the orchestra writing is lush and full of textural varieties, an interesting highlight is the use of the celesta. This piece was written a year before The Nutcracker, and so it is the first piece Tchaikovsky wrote with a celesta part, and here it plays under a beautiful melody and giving it a dreamlike quality.

Thank you for tuning in during this week of Russian composers, here on musicainextenso

- Nick O., guest editor

[thejackmeister-mongolhistory]

MONGOL FEAST AFTER THE KALKA BATTLE, 1223

On the ending of the Kalka River Battle, fought between Mongols and a coalition of Rus’ and Qipchaq-Cumans, 1223. “…and Mstislav, Knyaz of Kiev, seeing this evil [the defeat and slaughter of the Rus], never moved at all from his position; for he had taken stand on a hill above the river Kalka, and the place was stony, and there he set up a stockade of posts about him and fought with them from out of this stockade for three days. And other Tartars went after the Russian Knyazes fighting them up to the Dnieper, but two Voyevodas Tsgirkan and Teshukan(1) stopped at that stockade (fighting) against Mstislav and his son-in-law, Andrei and Olexander of Dubrovits; for these two Knyazes were with Mstislav. And there were there men in armour  with the Tartars and Voyevoda Ploskyna; and this accursed Voyevoda [Ploskyna, an individual working for the Mongols], having kissed the honourable Cross to Mstislav and to both the Knyazes to not kill them [i.e, promised to ensure their survival], but to let them go on ransom, lied, accursed one; he delivered them bound to the Tartars, and they took the stockade and slaughtered the people, and there they fell dead. And having taken the Knyazes they suffocated them having put them under boards, and themselves took seat on the top to have dinner. And thus they ended their lives.” -The Chronicle of Novgorod, Michell and Forbes translation, page 66. faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/… (1) Stephen Pow suggests that Tsgirkan and Teshukan may have been the turkic forms of the names of Chinggis Khan and his son Jochi Khan, passed on by the Turkic speaking Qipchaq-Cumans and misinterpreted by the Rus’ as names of present commanders. To learn more about the Kalka River Battle, check out my video on it: https://youtu.be/DuYlfHujxQo

[sevenandtwo]

Today we honor The Boss on the 54th anniversary of her death.

She was...

A true Patriot.

[clarkesque]

I’ve been writing this screenplay in my free time for a while now. It’s a story focusing on The Boss and it is divided into the three most pivotal moments of her life - giving birth on the battlefield of Normandy, meeting a 15-year old John / Jack at Bikini Atoll, and being forced to kill The Sorrow in Tselinoyarsk -  prior to the events of Metal Gear Solid 3. The title, Voyevoda, is how The Boss is known in Russia, which translates to “lady knight” or “warlord” or someone who is endowed with power and respect in the army or government. The story focuses mainly on her relationship with her former lover The Sorrow and her apprentice Jack. Her loyalties are tested as she is forced to make impossible decisions and choose between her mission or her beliefs.

In Metal Gear Solid 3, The Boss tells Jack “we are both slowly being eaten away by the karma of others”. She loses her newborn child to the Philosophers; she sacrifices her body for America’s fixation with atomic testing and the Space Race during the Cold War; she reluctantly disappears from Jack’s life after being assigned a top-secret mission by the president; and she unwantedly kills The Sorrow to prevent the Philosophers from killing her child. Her story deals with loss, loyalty, legacy, etc and a hopeful desire for free will in the world - and these elements are echoed through the characters of Jack and The Sorrow as they too must learn to understand and accept the reality of the situations they are placed in.