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Gagarin's Last Words

ercoerco Posts: 20,261
edited 2011-04-12 07:30 in General Discussion
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110411/sc_afp/russiaspace50yearsgagarinoffbeat

Yuri had his priorities straight!

Have sausage, will travel!

Will work for sausage!

A kielbas-tronaut?

Comments

  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-04-11 12:24
    Hmm.... Sounds a lot like my last words, LOL.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-04-11 15:10
    I love what foxnews.com had to say about him.
    Gagarin remained a hero after the fall of the Soviet Union; statues of him were preserved while monuments to Russia's Communist leaders were torn down.

    Sounds like he had the right stuff.

    OBC
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-04-11 16:41
    At the time 'twas a major shock to the USofA, but in the grand scheme of things his flight was simply awesome.

    Amanda
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2011-04-11 19:00
    I just watched a documentary on BBC 4 about Gagarin.
    I wish I could have seen it in HD but I had to watch it
    over the net.
    It was really good! Perhaps it will air on BBC America as well.
    Worth looking for.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0109ccb

    April 12th 2011 is the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into
    space, hailed by the Soviet Union as a triumph for socialist science over
    capitalism. But the true story is much stranger.

    George Carey's film shows how the Russian space programme was kick-started by
    a mystic who taught that science would make us immortal, and carried forward
    by a scientist who believed that we should evolve into super-humans who could
    leave our overcrowded planet to colonise the universe. Stranger still, Carey
    shows how those ideas have survived Communism and adapted themselves to the
    science of the modern world.
  • wjsteelewjsteele Posts: 697
    edited 2011-04-12 01:20
    All the video shows here in the US is "Not available in your area."

    Bill
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-04-12 02:08
    wjsteele,
    All the video shows here in the US is "Not available in your area."

    I can't watch it here in Finland either.

    That kind of ticks me off as I am British and love the BBC. I would gladly pay the British TV licence fee if I could stream their channels to here. That does not seem to be possible.
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2011-04-12 06:54
    Heater, I think the BBC makes the worlds best documentaries.
    I pretty much watch everything they make. Lately I have seen.

    BBC Wonders Of The Universe - all 4 episodes
    BBC Everything And Nothing - both episodes (these were really superb!)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-04-12 07:18
    Funnily enough one of the most memorable documentaries I have ever seen was about microprocessors by the BBC Horizon show in 1978. I recently found it in three parts on youtube. They do a nice job of introducing transistor and chip technology for the layman and questioning where it will all lead. Including this chilling statement
    They [microprocessors] are the reason the Japanese have stopped building ships and your children will not have jobs.

    Check it out. But be warned there is a lifetime of excellent Horizon shows to cacth up on:)
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2011-04-12 07:30
    Heater, I just sent you a pm about how to watch BBC shows in Finland :-)
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