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APOD 12 April Forgotten Date

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:13 am
by Yuriy
Amazing but APOD did not mentioned that this day in 1961 first man was launched to space, but APOD never forget to mention what Americans did in space. May be because Russians did it.
I have noticed that APOD is very keen to publish local news ie Amercan ones and keep very quiet about other countries achievements

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:43 pm
by makc
let me give you some hints here, would you? maybe that's because APOD site is goddamn american?

but hey, google remembers:
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edit: I moved this out, since it's not really APOD thread

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:55 pm
by NoelC
goddamn american?
Use those words together if you wish, but it is speculated that it was Yuri Gagarin on that very flight who said "I don't see any God up here", and Khrushchev later said, in antireligious propaganda, that "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any God there".

-Noel

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:26 pm
by Strider2k
I suppose then that when visiting a russian website I should expect to find mentioned all the wonderful achievements of the americans, or canadians, or brazilians, right?

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:30 pm
by craterchains
One day soon our world won't be separated by nationalistic boundaries, there won't be this strife and jealousy of "My dog is better than your dog" kind of mentality.

Some day soon, , ,

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:34 am
by adrianxw
Some day soon, , ,
I fear it may not be that soon. World seems to be getting worse every day with new ways of dividing being created. It is very depressing.