Yep, today's the anniversary. This little satellite started the space race and sparked the creation of NASA.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histo ... index.html
Think my avatar looks like Laika? :)
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Yep, today's the anniversary. This little satellite started the space race and sparked the creation of NASA.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histo ... index.html
Think my avatar looks like Laika? :)
Yeah, I've almost forgot that. I'm going to celebrate tonight :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RusskiSlav
Лайка was a mongrel, it's a name, not the breed. I'm very fond of dogs and yours is very beautiful.Quote:
Think my avatar looks like Laika? :)
Here is the photo of Laika:
http://tmn.fio.ru/works/15x/305/06/pamyat6.jpg
I'll wait for next year's celebration, the big 50!
LOL
And Laika is a cute dog :)
OK Russians, ready for another celebration? Today, October 6, is Boris Mikhailov's birthday!
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/kiril...ckey/micha.gif
I'm a huge hockey fan, and Boris is one of my all-time favorite players :)
But he is a commie bastard? :o
He got pwnd by M4rxizm-13ninism!Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
Not everyone who lived in the USSR was a communist
And not everyone who was communist was bad. The most of communists were honest and smart people. Don't see stupid American propaganda films like James Bond, "Rembo" and other crap that wash your brain.
Come on, if you are a communist you are automatically evil! Just the very thought of communism is a sin to humanity! *shudder*Quote:
Originally Posted by Fantomaks
I've never seen either one. But it's not like the Soviet Union didn't have its own propaganda films...and newspapersQuote:
Originally Posted by Fantomaks
You've never seen a James Bond film!?!? Are you from Mars!?! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by RusskiSlav
Even worse, he's from the Soviet Union. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Бармалей
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Originally Posted by basurero
First of all, I'm a she, second of all, I'm not from the Soviet Union, and third, no I have not seen a James Bond film. Don't ask why, I don't know either :)
Oh, you missed a lot - you haven't seen an ugly "russian" guy with steel teeth. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by RusskiSlav
LOL I have heard of that one, but never seen it. I plan to someday though. I spend too much time watching hockey now (season just began!!) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
Unfortunatly, she, unlike Belka&Strelka, did not make it back to the Earth. She died in space because of radiation, lack of oxygen and high temperature in terrible pain. I watched the movie on TV about that recently. Poor animal. :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by RusskiSlav
Yeah I heard she died on Sputnik 2. Poor Laika :(
Cool on my birthday!! except I'm not that old. :D