[102/365] Yuri's night
Apr. 12th, 2021 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistSuch 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.
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.