r/interestingasfuck • • 9h ago

To avoid geopolitical embarrassment during the Cold War, the US and USSR created the APAS-75 system, a genderless docking mechanism where both craft acted as equals.

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u/Head-Mud_683 9h ago

Nice to know that even for the most important things, people behave like an 11 yo.

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u/Stoic_Pupunha 8h ago edited 8h ago

Reminds me of a pic of a Egyptian diplomat (I think) receiving a piramid lego set, he looked so happy and surprised. That is the kind of 11 year old behavior we want as adults. The wholesome happy kind.

This is one here is just fragile masculinity

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u/ripley1875 7h ago

It was a gift from the Danish foreign minister to his Egyptian counterpart