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] Date Posted: 17:25:58 01/21/05 Fri European space firsts 1st satellite - Sputnik 1st man - Yuri Gagarin 1st interplanetary probe - Venera 1st probe on moon of other planet - Huygens [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (back in London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:59:33 01/21/05 Fri So Yuri Gargarin and Sputnik were European, were they? Had you told that to the Soviet government forty years ago, I think that a quick visit by an agent with a poison-tipped brolly would have cut short your peculiarly anonymous life. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Oddly enough they were | |
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Author: Evropa! [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:32:56 01/21/05 Fri Gagarin came from the European part of Russia. The eastern boundary of Europe is well within the former Soviet Union. "I think that a quick visit by an agent with a poison-tipped brolly would have cut short your peculiarly anonymous life." That was the Bulgarian secret service, not the Soviets. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: How bizarre... | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:32:30 01/21/05 Fri Do you honestly feel pride in an area of land whose eastern limit is vaguely defined by a low range of mountains and whose name is that of a Mediterranean princess chiefly famous for having sex with a bull? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:39:10 01/22/05 Sat If you feel more in common with 1960s Soviet Russia than the USA, then I suspect that you are a minority instance. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: That as may be... | |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:51:41 01/21/05 Fri However, Russian space achievements were hardly done in the name of Europe, but rather that of a political philosophy. Besides, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and John Glenn are racially European if we take things to extremes. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: Just what I was going to say, Dave | |
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Author: Brent (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:44:38 01/22/05 Sat [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: yes but... | |
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Author: Kevin (U.S.) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:24:19 01/22/05 Sat They all did it with an American flag patch on their shoulder. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: stars and stripes on the moon | |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 08:53:25 01/23/05 Sun Better he Stars and stripes on the moon than anything our continentle "friends" have come up with. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: "They all did it with an American flag patch on their shoulder." - like Gagarin did? | |
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Author: Laika [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:35:48 01/24/05 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: And another thing... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:40:02 01/23/05 Sun The [serious] people on this forum purport to be British. This means that they will hardly take more pride in 'European' achievements than American ones, since the Yanks are at least part of the family, albeit estranged members, whereas the Europeans are decadent, tyrannical rivals. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: USSR, Europe? | |
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Author: Aussie [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:16:31 01/25/05 Tue Europeans must have a short memory, taking European credit for sputnik, yuir, and other USSR success', do you not realise that sputnik and others were built to advance soviet dreams of scaring and annihilating Europe. The EU stinks, i cant wait till it falls flat on its face and never gets up. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Again, bravo | |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:19:17 01/25/05 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Europe will implode, there's no doubt about it! | |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:29:08 01/25/05 Tue I just hope we are no longer cabin-bound when it sinks. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Europe! | |
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Author: Sovietsky Evropa [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:42:47 01/25/05 Tue "Europeans must have a short memory, taking European credit for sputnik, yuir, and other USSR success', do you not realise that sputnik and others were built to advance soviet dreams of scaring and annihilating Europe. The EU stinks, i cant wait till it falls flat on its face and never gets up." Erm, would you care to look at an atlas? You'll find that the Ukraine, Baltic republics, Byelorus, Moscow and Leningrad/St Petersburg are all within Europe. Baikonur launch pad is in Kazakhstan, not part of Europe, but Moscow certainly is. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |