[102/365] Yuri's night

[cosmolinguist]

Such is the extent of my nerdery that when diffrentcolours asked if I'd seen the link he sent me and I hadn't so he explained it was tomorrow night for the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight. I said that was strange since the anniversary would actually be today -- displaying now just an unsurprising mastery of early spaceflight trivia but a truly uncharacteristic grasp on what the date is.

He said "oh maybe it's tonight then." I said "maybe I remembered it wrong." Surely he's more likely to know the date of an event he just looked at than I am of precisely when a human first flew into space.

But, no I was right.i think I actually know this particular bit of trivia from Public Service Broadcasting -- one of the unexpected bonuses of them using clips of archive reporting is that you can learn a lot if you listen to bits of newscast as avidly as you listen to songs you love, and their "Gagarin" is definitely a song I love.

So we watched "Yuri's Night" from the National Space Centre tonight while we ate the burgers I made for dinner (I feel like we have burgers all the time but they're tasty and they're one of the easiest things I can make when, for example, I went to lie down after work and felt worse when in got up than I had before). And really they said very little about Yuri Gagarin and could've held this on any night, heh. But it was a nice idea, and fun to watch space nerds getting all excited about astronauts and Artemis and the sky cranes on Mars and whatnot.

Comments

[kshandra]

"Night Mail" is my song of choice from PSB, but "Gagarin" is another good one, and the video is delightful.

[cosmolinguist]

I'm a huge fan of both of those albums, "Night Mail" is a great choice too (my favorite from that one is probably "Spitfire" though). I listened to them both so much for like the entire year of 2018.