Nyekulturny
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Over The Seas
After a day of digging out weeds, creating a new rock wall, amending a planting bed with 1000lbs of topsoil/composted cow manure, and planting 20 or so new plantsies, the very last thing I feel like doing at this moment is writing a post…but 17th century male attitudes tend to inspire:
A Russian capsule carrying South Korea‘s first astronaut touched down 260 miles off target in northern Kazakhstan on Saturday after hurtling through the atmosphere in a bone-jarring descent from the international space station.
It was the second time in a row — and the third since 2003 — that the Soyuz landing went awry.
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Later, Perminov referred to a naval superstition that having women aboard a ship was bad luck when asked about the presence of two women on the Soyuz.
“You know in Russia, there are certain bad omens about this sort of thing, but thank God that everything worked out successfully,” he said. “Of course in the future, we will work somehow to ensure that the number of women will not surpass” the number of men.
Of course.
Challenged by a reporter, Perminov responded: “This isn’t discrimination. I’m just saying that when a majority (of the crew) is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behavior or something else occurs, that’s what I’m talking about.” He did not elaborate.
What, like doing each others’ hair and nails? Or complaining to each other about certain “handsy” individuals back at Mission Control? Or breathing sighs of relief that they’re pulling ten gees for 3 1/2 hours instead smiling and pretending to be interested in the inane blatherings of one Anatoly “Washout” Perminov.
One does wonder.
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April 19th, 2008
They had to have landed on land without a landing strip. I guess they used chutes to slow them down. And wow, twenty minutes, I mean GPS, can you use it?
April 19th, 2008
Kazakhstan? I wonder if Borat was around to record the heroic landing.
Borat and Anatoly sound like they’d be soulmates; hope they got to have a beer together.