Articles inside the category: COSMOSS
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Tuesday, 12 Apr, 2011
Yuri Gagarin performed space flight aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft, orbiting Earth in 108 minutes and landing safely. The UN declares April 12 as International Day of Human Space Flight.
The spaceflight was hailed by the whole world, so the Valdai Discussion club asked some of its members about their memories of this event, what were their impressions and thoughts about this triumph of progress and scientific discovery.
Memories of Richard Pipes, Professor of History at Emeritus, Harvard:
The current world came up with the extraordinary revolution that Copernicus and Galileo Galilei introduced to prove that the Earth was not a stable center, but that it revolved around the sun. This generated an enormous crisis in minds and in the Church, because it seemed like everything lost their centrality and value.
But slowly the new cosmology was imposed that essentially lasted until today in schools, businesses and in the reading of the general course of things. It remained, however, within anthropocentrism, the idea that the human remains at the center of everything and things are destined for human pleasure
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Thursday, 30 Dec, 2010
Mysterious UFOs have been spotted over Russia's southern Republic of Kalmykia. Several times this month hundreds in the city of Elista witnessed several unidentified flying objects at the
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Saturday, 25 Dec, 2010
Special services started establishing special departments for air defense troops, secret laboratories were organized to study the phenomenon.
UFO encounters became especially frequent in the middle of the 20th
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Wednesday, 10 Nov, 2010
The North of England was crowned the world's top hot spot for UFO sightings - the latest bizarre images emerged from the northern sky.
The latest footage was
A team of investigators led by University of Arizona graduate student Sarah Horst has approximated, in a French lab, atmospheric conditions on Saturn's moon Titan. Through a series
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Monday, 18 Oct, 2010
While scientists have long concluded that the universe is expanding, and will do so for an infinite period of time, the researchers say the very rules of physics
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Friday, 24 Sep, 2010
It is not hearsay, but a fact, that solar radiation can affect short-wave communications, disrupting satellite transmissions and disturbing cell phone, GPS, TV and radio reception, even electricity
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Saturday, 6 Feb, 2010
This internationally famous UFO incident took place in 1986, on January 29, at 7:55 p.m. Some have called it the Roswell Incident of the Soviet Union. The information
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Friday, 18 Dec, 2009
A strange flying object was spotted in the sky above Moscow, December 18. Muscovites could see a large triangle-shaped object hovering above Red Square. Many people filmed the
World, meet Lily Atkinson.(Mr. Bean have such a gorgeous child)
Who would guess that the man who plays clumsy, foolish Mr Bean could have such a gorgeous child?
Certainly not us!
The 16-year-old took to the red carpet with her dad, Rowan Atkinson, and mum, ...
Link Between The Puberty.
Overweight boys may start puberty later than their leaner peers, new research shows. In girls, the opposite is true:
Being heavy increases the likelihood that a girl will start puberty early.
The link between higher ...
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If Rihanna is pregnant.
Rihanna thinks she's pregnant with Chris Brown's baby, it has been claimed. The 21-year-old singer had already told Brown that she might be expecting his child prior to their alleged altercation earlier this ...
Sane and crazy hairs.
Evolutionary biology's perspective that, among females, a healthy head of hair is an indicator of youth and beauty. Women need hair to have societal approval. Findings indicate that women's hair can serve ...
People in the shark attacks Sharks attacked Russian and Ukrainian tourists in the Red Sea off Egypt's Sharm-el-Sheikh resort on December 1. Two sharks suspected of the attacks have been caught in the area of the ...
Yoga And… Drunken Person.
It has been said that doing yoga is extremely helpful for the body health.
One of the reasons for this is that yoga poses are very natural body positions and our body enjoys being ...
New Russian nuclear submarine .
Russia's first Borey class strategic nuclear submarine will start sea trials. The fourth-generation Yury Dolgoruky was built at the Sevmash plant in northern Russia and was taken out of dry dock in April ...
