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Yup it's a real toy, and there are many versions of it (different dog breeds, some very cheap (without remote functionality). Base functionality is just that it will waddle along and bark. It's fun to have them around to play with your real cats/dogs if you have them.

https://www.amazon.com/TUMAMA-Control-Electronic-Interactive-Realistic/dp/B0B4ZJ6KL7/

That is an incredibly simplistic and also largely incorrect assessment of what actually transpired. Contrary to popular opinion, the US did not support extremists in Afghanistan to counter the commies.

This is an amazing, amazing book that presents a very thorough recounting of the Soviet invasion and it’s aftermath by Steve Coll, a Pulitzer winner who’s currently the head of Columbia's school of journalism. I can’t recommend it enough.

>season 4 is gonna be the URSS.

As a historian in training, I am going be half-excited and half-concerned about what they're going to do with the USSR. The writers better go deep into the history of the last decades of the Soviet Union (there's recent scholarship for that so that's a good start for points of divergence) in a way I don't think many Western shows would have captured (HBO's Chernobyl was a model exception). But they could easily turn it into a stereotypical, monolithic mess if they don't get the nuances. Let's wait and see next year.

I have this book with me called Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, which detailed the factors leading up to the end of the USSR. I have not gone deep into the book yet, but from an journal article review I read, the author suggests that if Andropov lived a bit longer than died of kidney failure soon, his reforms would continue on with Gorbachev and the Soviet Union would have survived.

According to a detail in the season 3 opening montage, the TIME magazine cover heralding the start of Gorbachev's term is dated March 1986, so Andropov probably had enough time to help prepare him for these reforms. The referendum might have gone through well in FAM, but I assume the republics that no longer wanted to become part of the USSR became independent.

Honestly, I'm on the same boat as you, I really hope they'll give more details next season. Making the USSR more like China in our timeline and whatnot. But I also feel that they might be letting more informed viewers leave some to the imagination, since there is a conflict going on in Eastern Europe, which in many ways is a consequence of that fall. It will probably inform some of their choices for the plot for >!Margo!< but I hope by not too much to the point of being boring or filled with plotholes.

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I found PJ on amazon!

I read a book 20 years ago about going to Mars with the current technology they had in the 90's. It was basically upgrading the Saturn V with nuclear engines, and it was a very well written and interesting book about how it could be done.

IMO, it could be a good way to do it.

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Plan-Settle-Planet/dp/145160811X

I follow someone who watches similar TV shows to what I watch on trakt.tv and he rated it highly. I'm a huge fan of Ronald D. Moore (DS9!) and any kind of alt-history, and I was embarrassed that I had never heard of it before!

Also recommen checking out Tom Stafford’s autobiography “Wpture” - really gets into the US-Soviet relations during this time and all of the planning & training that went into ASTP: https://www.amazon.com/We-Have-Capture-Stafford-Space/dp/1588341011

I recall hearing an anecdote about this once. If I recall correctly it was in Paul Dye's book about his work as a shuttle flight director. One time on the overnight shift there wasn't much to do so the FIDO pulled up some old Apollo-era targeting software. They crunched the numbers and figured out that you could just barely get a shuttle to the moon if it's entire payload capacity was used for extra hypergolic propellant.

Obviously there would be a myriad of other technical issues though and there would be no propellant for a trip home. I don't recall if they would have even had enough fuel for a braking burn to enter lunar orbit. The whole "shuttles to the moon" storyline was totally silly from a technical POV.

I think that lattice pattern in the glass was only for their vodka bottle. (Compare here and here.)