SpaceX first planted the first step of the Falcon 9 missile on the platform in the ocean. Before that, the company managed to plant the first step only on land; All four attempts to put her on the platform in the ocean ended in failures . Video: SPACEX direct broadcast screenshot SpaceX expects to use the first steps of missiles in the future. This will significantly reduce the cost of space launches.

On the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh's new, old war Photo: Vaan Stepanyan / PAN Photo It's been roughly a week since bullets and bombs started flying across the border between Azerbaijan and the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. In spite of diplomatic efforts by international mediators, a lasting resolution to the decades-old conflict is nowhere in sight.

On April 8, SpaceX for the first time in history managed to plant the first step of the Falcon 9 rocket on the floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The company expects that in the future this will significantly reduce launch costs, since the first step can be used repeatedly . A successful landing was a success only for the fifth time. We remember how SpaceX put a missile on the platform in the ocean. January 10, 2015 The first attempt.

The Buzzfeed publication staged an unusual direct broadcast on Facebook: two people in white robes pulled rubber bands onto the watermelon until it bursts. They pulled one elastic band at a time, so the process stretched for 45 minutes. During this time, 800 thousand users joined the viewing of the broadcast - these are precisely those who simultaneously followed the fate of the watermelon. And these 800 thousand people saw how the watermelon explodes! This required more than 600 rubber bands.

In pharmacies, funds from a hangover began to be sold worse. In 2015, the Russians acquired 3.6 million packs, which is eight percent less than a year earlier. Such data are given by DSM Group analysts. The market falls on the eighth year in a row. Graph: DSM Group Experts dispersed about the reasons for a decrease in demand. DSM Group Director Sergei Shulyak said that the matter is to reduce alcohol consumption in Russia.

In the Moscow subway car at the Kaluzhskaya station, a passenger was shot from a traumatic pistol. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the metro Alexei Myshlyaev. The victim was hospitalized with injuries to the soft tissues of the head. According to Myshlyaev, there was a conflict in the train car, one of its participants fired rubber bullets twice from the Osa traumatic pistol.

When in February 2016 the Inter -Kommerz bank recalled a license , the bank launched the “soft landing” campaign for Rocketbank clients, which remained without one of the partners. The bank made them returned to return from the “Cozy Cosmos”, thus playing the same tariff of competitors. But exactly two months later , a license was withdrawn at the bank itself .

Foreign currency mortgage holders recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which they demanded to protect them from banks. “We need to stop killing us, we need to stop drowning,” the borrowers said. A representative of the All-Russian Movement of Currency Borrowers told RBC that the appeal will be sent to a “direct line” with Putin, which will take place on April 14.

Interview of the former head of VGTRK Photo: Dmitry Lekai / Kommersant In May 2016, he has been the 25th anniversary of the release of Vesti, the first program of Russian television. From the very beginning, the Vesti employee was journalist Nikolai Svanidze; He later headed the VGTRK, and then left this position to make copyright programs and documentaries.

Sultan Suleimanov - About a film shot from the first person Bazelevs Distribution The film “Hardcore” was finally released by the director of Ilya Nayshuller and producer Timur Bekmambetov, who offers the viewer to observe all the eyes of the protagonist. Interest in the picture was explained by this particular feature - a first -person view. Medusa journalist Sultan Suleimanov looked at Hardcore and made sure that the dignity of the film did not end there.

The RCBIF user from Ohio built a meaningless rotating machine from stationery - paper clamps, rubber bands and pencils. If the invention of the American simply spun around his axis, it would be too simple: his car pauses on every circulation. RCBIF Useless Invention - Swing Thing Unfortunately, this machine will not move forever - it will stop when the elastic band is finally untwisted. But if you want to look at it forever, hold the Coob. Hey Sultee Useless Invention

In the Russian video blog Crash Zone, an experiment with a gas cylinder and a stove appeared. The authors of the blog became interested in what will happen if from a 30-meter height to throw off the cylinder and the plate connected to it on which the chicken is prepared. At the first throw with a balloon, nothing special happened - a dent appeared on it. The gas stove that flew after, crashed. After the gas cylinder was dropped again, he still burst.

The Russian Hockey Federation (FHR) confirmed the assumption that the players of the junior team took meldonium, as a result of which it was decided to completely replace the team before the World Championship.

The group Open Russia, founded by the former oil tycoon (now dissident) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has published video footage of a massive police training exercise, apparently simulating the state's response to a large-scale demonstration. The event reportedly took place on Thursday, April 7. Open Russia says one of its correspondents happened upon the scene unexpectedly in the town of Lyubertsy, just outside Moscow.

Detained Mohamed Abrini, an accomplice of the terrorists who staged the attacks in Paris. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the TV channel VRT. Mohamed Abrini has been wanted since November 2015. He was seen on surveillance footage with Salah Abdesalam two days before the attacks in the French capital. According to the channel, Abrini may be the same person in Panama who got on the surveillance footage from the Brussels airport, where the attacks were also staged.