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Russia renamed its ambitious satellite program after Putin misspoke its name

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/russia-renamed-its-ambitious-satellite-program-after-putin-misspoke-its-name/

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is part of the reason why you don’t want to put a person with a fragile ego in charge of a major country.

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    • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or any country for that matter. Hungary isnot much better, save for the lack of people falling out of windows (they only fall out of jobs so far).

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    • Melt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is what happens after all the people who dared to correct their superior get sent to gulag, or fell from the balcony, or committed suicide

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    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      or a company.

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    • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or even walking a dog.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This issue long predates Putin’s time in office.

      For something kind of recent, see Chernobyl

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  • DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s some real “using a sharpy to correct a hurricanes path” energy Puty…

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    • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Remembering that made me spit out my covefe.

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    • Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Legitimately my first thought when I read the headline.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “At first it was called Ehfir,” Putin said. “And at one of my public speeches I was talking and said it was Sfera. I arrived at the Kremlin, and the former Roscosmos head greeted me and said, ‘Vladimirovich, you said it was project Sfera, Sfera you said. That’s what it is, project Sfera.’”

    Rogozin, who was listening to these remarks, acted immediately—presumably to save his boss from embarrassment. After Rogozin said the constellation was named Sphere, Putin recalled that he asked how’s that? Rogozin replied that it had already been renamed Sfera and not to worry.

    Laughing, Putin added, “So I didn’t even make it back and it’s already renamed to Sfera. So I said, well, OK then.”

    That’s almost cute.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cute little dictator things.

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      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And everyone kept all of their fingers and children.

        The end.

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    • supert@lemmy.sdfeu.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just wait until he gets senile.

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    • Cannacheques@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guy just doesn’t care lol

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  • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oddly enough he is not the only person who has done this.

    …greenspun.com/…/how-the-sr-71-got-its-name/

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It should be noted in both cases, it wasn’t the leader who demanded a change, but the subordinate who did it to save face on their behalf.

      I guess noses can be the same shade of brown, regardless of nationality.

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      • Pips@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “It’s a bit nutty.”

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    • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A comment on that article says it’s more complicated than that. The Air Force Chief of Staff preferred SR over RS and got the speech changed before the president gave it.

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      • sizzler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s arse

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can cancer please kick this fucking douche’s ass and just keel over already?

    I swear to god only the good people die young

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  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shit is straight out of dictator movie

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  • WhitePaintIsEvil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s so stalinesque it’s fucking hilarious. Gonna get a sequel to “the death of stalin” at some point if we keep getting stories like this.

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    • DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reminds me a bit of this bit from family guy youtu.be/7ZcKShvm1RU?si=Or16zdSAbgv_dNba

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    See, kids? That’s how you avoid falling out of a window.

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  • HeckGazer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait till you hear about the RS-71 Blackbird :D

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  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Change the name or come choke on a poisonous mushroom. It’s a very easy choice.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very easy. I’ll have more mushrooms please.

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  • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

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  • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t really care what that degenerated fuck said.

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  • autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

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    The Sphere constellation is intended to provide broadband Internet service from middle-Earth orbit to Russia and high-resolution Earth observation satellites.

    As is usual with Russian space projects, because they tend to be poorly funded, the timeline for Sphere’s deployment has been delayed and its scope reduced.

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    Before 2018, this satellite program was known as Ehfir (Ether), a reference to the invisible substance once thought to fill the universe and the medium through which light waves propagated.

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    According to a Roscosmos press release issued at the beginning of 2022, the Sphere program was hampered by the need for “colossal government spending” on other projects, including dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    Earlier this month, at the International Astronautical Congress in Azerbaijan, the new leader of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, referenced the Sphere constellation.

    Now, he said, plans for the constellation will include the capacity to provide direct-to-cell communications, which necessarily means that some of these satellites will be very large.

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    The original article contains 548 words, the summary contains 177 words. Saved 68%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    • rubikcuber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bad bot. You skipped the main part:

      “At first it was called Ehfir,” Putin said. “And at one of my public speeches I was talking and said it was Sfera. I arrived at the Kremlin, and the former Roscosmos head greeted me and said, ‘Vladimirovich, you said it was project Sfera, Sfera you said. That’s what it is, project Sfera.’”

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      • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When you do something to try and make your boss happy, but he just thinks you’re an idiot.

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      • Coasting0942@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I can’t tell from that quote if he was impressed or disappointed

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