Re: What is Happening, part II
The Russians never announced the launch of Sputnik 1. We only knew about it because a bunch of Manchester Schoolboys were keen radio hams and heard its radio signals on a random wavelength.
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"Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis
"I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx)
The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)
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