Call be a pessimist, but I don't think we are going to manage profitable astroid mining in the 80s, as is speculated there. We just might miss it.
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Call be a pessimist, but I don't think we are going to manage profitable astroid mining in the 80s, as is speculated there. We just might miss it.
There was another post later that clarified the major programs we could engage in, of which we had room for about two. We did mass nuclearization and high-speed rail, missing out on asteroid mining, the ultimate tower, and computerized central planning.
Asteroid mining presumably would have required major space race victories followed by going all-in on it politically.
Asteroid mining presumably would have required major space race victories followed by going all-in on it politically.
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It was uh, coming from this:
"You can go for two of the above semi reasonably for the 70's
-Mass Nucealrization
-HSR Project
-Asteroid Mining Experiments
-Ultima Tower Construction
-Computarization Experiments/Mass funding"
Note the "experiments" and the absence of the words "profitable" or "scalable"
It was also technically in the 70s, but we kept doing cringe things like sidelining Chelomei and cancelling the bigger RLA versions...
EDIT: Also, interestingly we've kinda gone for "2 and a half" (nuclear, computerization and covering a lot of the Union with HSR). But then again, look at the state of our roads (in no small part due to our HSR investment). We've also not had oilshock happen by 1978, which does wonders for the budget and growth.
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It dodges censorship mainly by a Comiket-like distribution scheme (take a box to a con, sell the magazines out of the box in cash, sell only face-to-face to adults) to avoid getting seen by censors, and is printed using an old and very easy process.
I guess in practise the USSR put a fair bit in to Nuclearization and mass funding in a light industry build out of computers, though the computerization effort fell through some what. Also not not sure it the mass nuclear effort wasn't perhaps meant to be even more then what was done.
Still this leave me wondering on potential focuses will be for the 80s then,
With the nuclear construction infrastructure mostly built out now, any further efforts there probably will be more parts of normal power built out efforts. So probably not that...
I guess space funding is high right now, if that continued maybe something in space would be an option? Certainly there is an entire Moon mission, base, etc that perhaps might be tried there, together with various efforts to reduce the costs to run that. Though even at over 200 rpy not sure that's a major focus, though it's some what substantial at least I guess.
Not sure what else is a good option beyond this... maybe something to do with an oil crisis?
Still this leave me wondering on potential focuses will be for the 80s then,
With the nuclear construction infrastructure mostly built out now, any further efforts there probably will be more parts of normal power built out efforts. So probably not that...
I guess space funding is high right now, if that continued maybe something in space would be an option? Certainly there is an entire Moon mission, base, etc that perhaps might be tried there, together with various efforts to reduce the costs to run that. Though even at over 200 rpy not sure that's a major focus, though it's some what substantial at least I guess.
Not sure what else is a good option beyond this... maybe something to do with an oil crisis?
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About the oil crisis: I think we probably should start to think about what plan will be more convinient if we don't have the oil crisis in late 1979, as, at this point, it is probably more likely than not we won't have it start before the end of this plan.
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Not middle school educated labor, for the financial sector.
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Couldn't perform worse than wall street tbh.
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Service sector, OK I guess. But please don't financialize the economy further that's how you end up shunting money around to create loads of profit on paper without producing anything of value for the workers or national security.
O hey soviet Doujinshi. I wonder if there will be any 'cultural cross-polination' with the Japanese community since we're closer in TTL.
In this TL, the Russian Bear mean something else...
Here is an East German propaganda poster:
The Soviet film industry and animation industry is doing better in TTL. We already have our own art style comrade. East German animation is superior to that degenerate "art" from Japan called anime.
The Soviet film industry and animation industry is doing better in TTL. We already have our own art style comrade. East German animation is superior to that degenerate "art" from Japan called anime.
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RR is all of two ag dice a year, I don't know that I'd call it a megaproject. We already got our set of impact rolls for RR since there's no historically recorded answer to how bad it is, and Blackstar said that it amounted to surprisingly only destroying the designated sacrifice zones.
Now, one of those sacrifice zones is the Arctic Ocean, but still could have been worse.
Now, one of those sacrifice zones is the Arctic Ocean, but still could have been worse.
Pretty sure we want infra focus next plan given the massive backlog on bulding roads, sewers, water treatment plants (since our drinking water get too much heavy metals) building enough housing for population, modernising electric grid.
"I agree" I say as I funnel money into a big black wallet labelled 'Tashkent-Dushanbe High Speed Rail Connection'.
Unironically I think the biggest reason to *not* take infra next plan is to limit our options and force us to do roads.
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I dunno, I think that the bad state of the road network makes it very likely that we'll see road-related options as part of an infrastructure focus.
Probably but we'd probably also get a load of electricity and sewage options that we'd do preferentially, I think
No. More rail.
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Oh no, those are all getting canceled because their well, seeing the far far far far higher priority to improve. The sewage system is poor and somewhat dysfunctional but its not nearly as directly economically relevant/Dito for electricity.
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Ok, then let's do housing reform and invest 7 infrastructure dices in it for the next plan.🏢
At least that's something our ministers are good at. /Jk
At least that's something our ministers are good at. /Jk
I wish for the next plan to be heavy industry just to show those environmentalists who is really in charge.