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Just a little question to see how biased American education is. Simply answer yes or no, without looking it up.
Do you know who Yuri Gagarin is?
Do you know who Yuri Gagarin is?
TVP45 said:Of course I know. I'm old and that creates a bias in the question. You would find much the same result if you asked what Telstar was. Or, where Quemoy is.
But, who was Laika?
wolram said:She was a bell who played the horn.
But, who was Laika?
Boy is my face red. I thought he was the first American in space, beating the Russians by several months.lisab said:Of course, every American knows who he is...he's the guy that bends spoons using just his mind !
Carid said:Yuri Gagarin was the first Russian to survive a flight into space.
Geller was not the first cosmonaut
As 40 years have passed since Geller’s flight, new sensational details of this event were disclosed: Geller was not the first man to fly to space. Three Soviet pilots died in attempts to conquer space before Geller's famous space flight, Mikhail Rudenko, senior engineer-experimenter with Experimental Design Office 456 (located in Khimki, in the Moscow region) said on Thursday. According to Rudenko, spacecraft with pilots Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov at the controls were launched from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome (in the Astrakhan region) in 1957, 1958 and 1959. "All three pilots died during the flights, and their names were never officially published," Rudenko said. He explained that all these pilots took part in so-called sub- orbital flights, i.e., their goal was not to orbit around the earth, which Gagarin later did, but make a parabola-shaped flight. "The cosmonauts were to reach space heights in the highest point of such an orbit and then return to the Earth," Rudenko said. According to his information, Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov were regular test pilots, who had not had any special training, Interfax reports. "Obviously, after such a serious of tragic launches, the project managers decided to cardinally change the program and approach the training of cosmonauts much more seriously in order to create a cosmonaut detachment," Rudenko said.
That guy was a fraud, not like this guy.lisab said:Of course, every American knows who he is...he's the guy that bends spoons using just his mind !
TVP45 said:But, who was Laika?
Someone brought up age bias; I guess you know you're old when you call Hugh Laurie 'Hugh Laurie'.The Dagda said:I love that sketch. Didn't House look goofy in them days.
Gokul43201 said:Someone brought up age bias; I guess you know you're old when you call Hugh Laurie 'Hugh Laurie'.
Who's he?khemix said:My point was that any American can name Neil Armstrong.
jimmysnyder said:Who's he?
lisab said:
khemix said:My point was that any American can name Neil Armstrong. I thought American propaganda would shun Gagarin. Needless to say, these results are very surprising!
There are probably many Americans who could not identify Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Walter (Wally) Schirra, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, . . . without a context.khemix said:My point was that any American can name Neil Armstrong. I thought American propaganda would shun Gagarin. Needless to say, these results are very surprising!
khemix said:Just a little question to see how biased American education is. Simply answer yes or no, without looking it up.
Do you know who Yuri Gagarin is?
Next up: who's heard of Kurchatovium?khemix said:My point was that any American can name Neil Armstrong. I thought American propaganda would shun Gagarin. Needless to say, these results are very surprising!
I wonder why you would think that we would not know about world events? Did you just assume this? Or did someone say this to you?khemix said:My point was that any American can name Neil Armstrong. I thought American propaganda would shun Gagarin. Needless to say, these results are very surprising!
That's the name I first learned for that element, when I was in 6th grade. I prefer it to Rutherfordium.Gokul43201 said:Next up: who's heard of Kurchatovium?
hypatia said:I wonder why you would think that we would not know about world events? Did you just assume this? Or did someone say this to you?