On: This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Fac...

[powertower]

Today I learned that Moscow has a giant exhaust pipe sticking out of it that discharges combusted rocket fuel mixture ... which is then combined with water vapor, turned into a giant toxic fume cloud, and spread through-out the city.

I would love to know the reason for its placement there.

[njs12345 → powertower]

From the website of the company that runs the facility (http://www.npoenergomash.ru/eng/) it would seem most of the tests are of engines which use a liquid oxygen/kerosene mixture - presumably not much more toxic than exhaust from cars..

[CapitalistCartr → powertower]

TIL == Today I learned? (Edit) I must be older than I thought. I take from the downvoting this is a well-known acronym I should know.

[frou_dh → CapitalistCartr]

It's a redditism

[xxqs → powertower]

it was built outside of the city several decades ago. But later the city has grown

[powertower → xxqs]

I hear a 'In Soviet Russia joke coming on...