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...For which you requested funny captions. I'm trying to oblige.

Gagarin to Fidel Castro: Comrade Chairman, is that a Havana cigar in your pocket, or are you really glad to see me?

The FBI has released a huge number of formerly secret documents on UFO investigations since 1947. The raw data http://vault.fbi.gov/UFO And more categorized stuff http://vault.fbi.gov/unexplained-phenomenon But be warned, truth-seekers: if you dare to enter into this dark, secret and...

Those were early days... the narrations and music were not intended to be there by the filmmaker Melies, he was just creating a funny sci-fi parody of Jules Verne.

Without a doubt, the original Solaris by Tarkovsky, the single most boring film ever made in any genre. 165 minutes and nothing at all happens! Nothing interesting, anyway. For those with incurable insomnia who want to get to sleep, you can watch the whole film starting here: Here's the...

I think while we're paying tribute to Gagarin, we should also remember Valentin Vasiliyevich Bondarenko, who died practically in Gagarin's arms after the most horrific accident in a pressure chamber just three weeks before Vostok-1. There's a lot of nonsense out there about "lost cosmonauts"...

The turning point was Nixon's 1972 Space Policy Review, which effectively killed off Apollo and gave the green light to the Shuttle, but only as a NASA-USAF joint civil/military program. From Wiki Note that this was before the 1973 oil crisis and the recession which followed it. Nixon just...

BBC report on same: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13065747 I know some "revolutionaries" from Belorus, but I'm sure they're not involved in this because they're non-violent, and committed to cyberspace attacks and stunts. But it seems there is a lot of discontent against the regime.

Damage to the wing of the Airbus And to the tail of the CRJ Tiny damage of the CRJ left horizontal stabiliser in comparison to the wrecked wingtip of the A380. If it were a streetfight, you'd say the little guy won. Analysis of the incident by aviation specialists...

We all know that politicians are thieves, but very few are as shameless in the way they steal as Czech president Vaclav Havel Here he is stealing an expensive pen in front of the world's press during a visit to Chile Love his look of cool satisfaction after he thinks he's got away with it...

Like that's going to stop Russians from drinking...

Here's a cool one "Mannekin Pis in Brussels pays tribute to Gagarin" http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/mediatheek_en/1.1002149 Let's not forget that Yuri famously took a leak on the bus ride out to the platform, stopping the bus to get out and wet the wheel, a tradition observed in...

I'll be having a shot or two of vodka to celebrate - any smileys for that?

The last video of Mythbusters above covers the laser reflectors and would convince anyone with an open mind. Regarding the remaining descent stages: neither terrestrial telescopes or Hubble could resolve these images, but the LRO has photographed them. Not good enough for sceptics, though...

Great comment on the YT page: :rofl:

I agree with your point entirely about pride + ignorance = refusal to face real facts. I think the So bonkers I love it, and there are many more videos like that.

I said I would like to believe, not believed. This is called hoping against hope.

Medvedev apprently agrees with you according to the RT interview, quoting him from Chinese TV: http://rt.com/news/medvedev-gagarin-interview-space/ Is he serious? I'd like to believe he is - if he announces an ambitious project with China that would be a great step (since both the USA and EU...

BBC special report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13045341 And related, a what-if? piece about what could have happened if the Soviet moon programme had succeeded: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13041326

The nuclear emergency has been reclassified as Level 7, the highest level, only Chernobyl had that category until now. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13045341