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April 13, 2007
'Nuff said
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at 09:46 PM
April 12, 2007
April 12, 1961. The first Cosmonaut's day.
Vostok 1 carried Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin on the first manned space flight, an orbital, lasting 1 hour and 48 minutes, just 25 days before Alan Shepard made the first American space flight in Freedom 7, a 15 minute suborbital journey, which redefined the "Shepard's Prayer" (during the countdown, he said "Please, dear God, don't let me fuck up.")
Whilst Chuck Yeager dubbed the American Mercury astronauts 'Spam in a can', it was far more applicable to Yuri who had no control at all over the ship, it being run remotely by ground crews, whilst Shepard had control of all three axis of movement.
Yuri was killed when his plane crashed in 1968. The is still controvery over the cause.
Image source: The Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at 09:55 AM
April 10, 2007
Suspected. Right.
Reuters (who else) brings insane political correctness:
CASABLANCA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up
I put $50 on the next edit saying "An alleged..."
Lost that one. They next changed the intro and added a second paragraph:
Three suspected bombers detonated their explosive belts, killing themselves and at least one police officer and wounding more than 20 people in a police raid on a safe house in which a fourth was shot dead, police sources said.
Still suspected to be suicide bombers after self-detonating.
I wonder if they're angling for a job at the UN.
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at 10:31 PM
April 07, 2007
A pictorial mindscape.
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at 03:17 PM