Gagarin's Last Words

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• Microcontrolled Posts: 2,461

  2011-04-11 12:24 edited 2011-04-11 12:24

  Hmm.... Sounds a lot like my last words, LOL.
• Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091

  2011-04-11 15:10 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
• ajward Posts: 1,130

  2011-04-11 16:41 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
• HollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398

  2011-04-11 19:00 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.
• wjsteele Posts: 697

  2011-04-12 01:20 edited 2011-04-12 01:20

  All the video shows here in the US is "Not available in your area."
  
  Bill
• Heater. Posts: 21,230

  2011-04-12 02:08 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.
• HollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398

  2011-04-12 06:54 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. Posts: 21,230

  2011-04-12 07:18 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:)
• HollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398

  2011-04-12 07:30 edited 2011-04-12 07:30

  Heater, I just sent you a pm about how to watch BBC shows in Finland :-)