Fun fact: the Bible speaks of atoms.
No it doesn't.
Not that I care what it says anyway.
In case you haven't noticed, I am a voodoo Loa...
And, as Guardian of Crossroads & Doorways, Legba sees 'atoms' for what they are...
A barrier to the Truth.
Keep your day job.
My 'job' is to see all voodoo, all the time...
And I see yours.
It is shit btw.
Now; the purpose of a testbed is to test the airframe in its intended operating conditions.
Thus, the OK-GLI tested the Buran in take-offs, flight & landings, all under jet power & at subsonic speeds.
Which were its intended operating conditions.
The take-off being an important part btw.
Simple stuff.
Unless we have a sci-fi author around who can spin the tale into something more fantastical, perhaps?
Where would we find such a man?
Why ask?
"Unless we have a sci-fi author around who can spin the tale into something more fantastical, perhaps? Where would we find such a man?"
You seem to be doing a pretty good job on the "fiction" side, though no science that I can see!
By the way YOU are made entirely from atoms, and YOU insist that ATOMS don't exist, so that proves that in you own "mind" you don't exist - QED.
I always said you were an android (well once is always!) - of course so is jroa but he has "artificial intelligence" (he said so!), the trouble YOU seem to missed out when they were handing that out,
I know how you just love emojis.