Predators and Prey

[TR273]

I also want cake.

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-Banpf!-

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[Pygmepatl]

-Banpf!-
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Yay!!! Thanks!

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[Cosmic-FS]

*munches on internet cake*
Someone had a birthday at Birb, Inc. which means we're all getting cake later today.

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[Simo]

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Enjoy some veggie sushi rolls, Mr. Owl!

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[Simo]

Also, this delicious breakfast!

 

[TR273]

*Eats fruit and nuts.*
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[DRGN Juno]

Also, this delicious breakfast!

Neat, thanks for breakfast.

*Eats, caffeinates*

This year in aviation history, Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to fly to space. Due to how little data we had at the time about how the body would react to spaceflight, Gagarin had zero control over the entire flight, with Vostok 1 alternating between being automated or ground controlled. Vostok 1 orbits the earth once in 108 minutes, before re-entering. He and his craft land southwest of a small Russian city called Engels, where upon exiting, he recalled his encounter with frightened locals:

"When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!"
-Yuri Gagarin, on his landing

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[Tazmo]

*Eats fruit and nuts.*
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ah, the @A Minty cheetah diet.

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[Thrashy]

"When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!"

Haven't heard of that before ^^

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[TR273]

"When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!"
-Yuri Gagarin, on his landing

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Why do I get the feeling that if you said this in the West you'd either get:
Commited
Lynched
A religion started around you.
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[Thrashy]

Why do I get the feeling that if you said this in the West you'd either get:
Commited
Lynched
A religion started around you.
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Well, if you said that you're a soviet citizen just like them in the west, then yeah, you'd probably have gotten lynched

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[TR273]

Well, if you said that you're a soviet citizen just like them in the west, then yeah, you'd probably have gotten lynched

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I'm just imagining an Americanised version of his words.
"I told them, don't be afraid, I am an American citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Washington!"

I don't know why but it just sounds...

... absurd.
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[Thrashy]

I'm just imagining an Americanised version of his words.
"I told them, don't be afraid, I am an American citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Washington!"

I don't know why but it just sounds...

... absurd.
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In the US, you wouldn't have had the time to say that. They'd have shot you down immediately

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[Cosmic-FS]

In the US, you wouldn't have had the time to say that. They'd have shot you down immediately

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[Thrashy]

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Sorry

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[TR273]

In Naval and aviation news:

The Blackburn Buccaneer low level strike jet enters service with the Royal Navy.

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[Thrashy]

In 1961, Walter Ulbricht says in an interview: No one has any intention of building a wall!

A few days later, the NVA (Army of GDR), lock the borders and starting to build the first wall of Berlin.
It's getting expanded from time to time to a complex border construction and is officially called "antifascist barrier".
But of course it only should prevent east Berlin citizens to go to the west


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[TR273]

Interesting bit of history here:

In the summer of 1961; Iraq was about invade Kuwait. HMS Victorious moved from the South China Sea to the Persian Gulf while HMS Bulwark landed marines in Kuwait. Sea Vixens patrolled the skies, and when a further RN carrier arrived off Aden, Iraq's President Kassem suddenly back-pedalled on his intentions to invade.

I didn't know about this until I started researching the Sea Vixen.
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[Thrashy]

*prepares missiles for the next page*

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[Pygmepatl]

*prepares missiles for the next page*

I thought you were a pacifist skunk.

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[Thrashy]

I thought you were a pacifist skunk.

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I am. But in 1962, the Soviet Union places nuclear missiles in Cuba (as a reaction to the US who had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey).
This crisis leads the world to the edge of a nuclear war.

During the Cuban crisis, a Soviet nuclear submarine comes under fire from US destroyers. One of the officers, Vasily Alexandrovich Archipov (1926-1999), refuses to allow nuclear torpedoes to be fired without further orders from Moscow, presumably preventing nuclear war.

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[Thrashy]

On musical news: The Beatles make their first test recordings with the record company Decca and are rejected on the grounds that guitar groups are no longer modern.

 

[Thrashy]

Other musical news: The Rolling Stones (Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) have their first gig at the Marquee Club in London. This date is considered the founding date of the British band.

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[Cosmic-FS]

I am. But in 1962, the Soviet Union places nuclear missiles in Cuba (as a reaction to the US who had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey).
This crisis leads the world to the edge of a nuclear war.

During the Cuban crisis, a Soviet nuclear submarine comes under fire from US destroyers. One of the officers, Vasily Alexandrovich Archipov (1926-1999), refuses to allow nuclear torpedoes to be fired without further orders from Moscow, presumably preventing nuclear war.

That's crazy. I recently read an article about the cold war and all the times we nearly blew the whole world up. At almost every instance it came down to a higher up ordering a strike and a technician going "wait a minute, let me confirm this isn't a glitch."

Scary
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[Thrashy]

That's crazy. I recently read an article about the cold war and all the times we nearly blew the whole world up. At almost every instance it came down to a higher up ordering a strike and a technician going "wait a minute, let me confirm this isn't a glitch."

Scary
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And yet we have enough nuclear reactors running to destroy the world even without war...

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