IIRC, Mount St. Helen is in Washington.
If it's in Washington state and it erupts, it's good, because that's where Microsoft is located.
If it's in Washington DC and it erupts, it's good, because that's where the US government is located.
but in the soviet atmosphere urban legends like that would have been sure to nourish.
Especially because of the secrecy that sorounded the Soviet Space Program: it was announced only after the mission succeded. We can imagine that in the case of a failure, it would have been kept secret.
As 40 years have passed since Gagarin's flight, new sensational details of this event were disclosed: Gagarin was not the first man to fly to space.
Three Soviet pilots died in attempts to conquer space before Gagarin's famous space flight, Mikhail Rudenko, senior engineer-experimenter with Experimental Design Office 456 (located in Khimki, in the Moscow region) said on Thursday.
According to Rudenko, spacecraft with pilots Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov at the controls were launched from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome (in the Astrakhan region) in 1957, 1958 and 1959.
"All three pilots died during the flights, and their names were never officially published," Rudenko said.
He explained that all these pilots took part in so-called sub- orbital flights, i.e., their goal was not to orbit around the earth, which Gagarin later did, but make a parabola-shaped flight.
"The cosmonauts were to reach space heights in the highest point of such an orbit and then return to the Earth," Rudenko said.
According to his information, Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov were regular test pilots, who had not had any special training, Interfax reports.
"Obviously, after such a serious of tragic launches, the project managers decided to cardinally change the program and approach the training of cosmonauts much more seriously in order to create a cosmonaut detachment," Rudenko said.
You assume that all errors in a printed encyclopedia are made in good faith ?
I have a nice example: in the 1911 edition of Britannica, it was written that the city of Bucharest was errected on the site of the Roman fortress of Thyanus.
I looked in several histories of Bucharest and couldn't find that. It was obviously a in-joke:
Thy + Anus = Your Anus.
It was Erected on Your Anus.:-)
It seems that the GNAA existed back in 1911 and was working at Britannica.
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Even right-clicking and selecting save works in Opera!
anyway, fourteen years ago google was not even born.
Back to the topic of coal fires, they only "produce about 2-3% of the total world carbon dioxide", while the US produces around 30%.
The ozone layer is that O3 layer above the athmosphere.
No link between them whatsoever.
IIRC, Mount St. Helen is in Washington. If it's in Washington state and it erupts, it's good, because that's where Microsoft is located. If it's in Washington DC and it erupts, it's good, because that's where the US government is located.
What's wrong with it. They're just trying to make some money. ;-)
Also remember that Octoberfest is starting!
The GNAA Ass-streching Prize :-)
Especially because of the secrecy that sorounded the Soviet Space Program: it was announced only after the mission succeded. We can imagine that in the case of a failure, it would have been kept secret.
Because all the proofs are burried deep in the archives of the KGB.
However, the Russian media wrote about this (in English)
Aah, all right. I'll have, uh, two with points and... a big flat one.
Picasso was one of the few painters that were famous during their lives.
It does not LOAD images, but it displays attachments.
This project was made by a group of hobbists, with their own money, not from public funds, so what's the point of your comment ?
It's very unlikely to be able to publish something that is read by the masses unless you accept to work for such a media corporation.
It's Romania.
I have a nice example: in the 1911 edition of Britannica, it was written that the city of Bucharest was errected on the site of the Roman fortress of Thyanus.
I looked in several histories of Bucharest and couldn't find that. It was obviously a in-joke:
Thy + Anus = Your Anus.
It was Erected on Your Anus. :-)
It seems that the GNAA existed back in 1911 and was working at Britannica.
Oil-over-IP ?
Because of what you said here, you will probably be the first one against the wall when the revolution comes.
I hate being the French Spelling Nazi, but somebody has to do it. It's Après-vie. :-)
Also cool is searching for this stuff
Are you also a GNAA member ? :)
I read the first time: "Go and bang out with the people you will be living with for the rest of the year." :)
or even "death is good because it creates jobs". Think of the morticians, gravediggers, floral industry, casket industry etc.
No, that was libraries of congress per second.