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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Soviet space disaster?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.211302.29561@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:13:02 GMT
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- There's an incident reported by Robert Heinlein in Expanded Universe (published
- around 1980 or so, and a revision of a work published in the 1960's) in which
- Heinlein describes that on a trip to the USSR, he had heard about some Russian
- space vessel which everyone referred to as occupied by a human until the
- vessel got in trouble, when everyone suddenly shifted to calling it unmanned.
- He wonders if there is a dead Russian in space.
-
- There is also a recent incident where a Russian was stuck in Mir space for
- rather longer than necessary because of political reasons (such as having to
- send up a Kazakh cosmonaut who wasn't fully trained to take over duties there),
- but he was returned to Earth and didn't die.
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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