Lost Cosmonauts

[pheonix561 2080]

Just read an interesting article, I thought you guys might enjoy it. The full thing is here, but I took the liberty of posting the interesting first half; the second documents the things the brothers went through to get the recordings they got., and the way the KGB and american spies followed them. It was interesting when the Czech ambassador mentioned probably causing an accident on the poor boys, though he personally was against the idea.

The article itself is a couple years old, but still interesting.

Midnight, 19 May 1961. A crisp frost had descended on Turin’s city centre which was deserted and deathly silent. Well, almost. Two brothers, aged 20 and 23, raced through the grid-like streets (that would later be made famous by the film The Italian Job) in a tiny Fiat 600, which screamed in protest as they bounced across one cobbled piazza after another at top speed.

The Fiat was loaded with dozens of iron pipes and aluminium sheets which poked out of windows and were strapped to the roof. The car screeched to a halt outside the city’s tallest block of flats. Grabbing their assorted pipes, along with a large toolbox, the two brothers ran up the stairs to the rooftop. Moments later, the city’s silence was rudely broken once more as they set to work: a concerto of hammering, clattering, sawing and shouting.

Suddenly, an angry voice rang out; the man who lived on the floor below leant out of the window and screamed: “Will you stop that racket, I’m trying to sleep!

[Knuckle 484]

This is very interesting. I've never really studied the space race from the Russian perspective, so it is interesting to me how they were so politically motivated to put a man in space, albeit with less precaution and planning than the Americans.

[Hylian 1]

Yeah, the Space Race (which is a Technological Advancing Race) was never really taught

through the Russian perspective.

[pheonix561 2080]

If you continue to read the article, it discusses the lives of the Italian guys who were intercepting the radio frequencies. At one point the guy writing the article goes to interview a Russian secret service member who is now an anonymous ambassador to an anonymous country. The ambassador mentions that if the boys continued doing things this way, they would have to be dealt with, with an "accident." Which was something he didn't want to do, because the boys were so nice.

It kind of makes you questions the American and Russian Governments. A whole lot.

[Obtineo 0]

Thats pretty damn interesting.

[Linox 28]

Figurehead, that has got to be one of the funniest things I have seen in a while. Thank you for the lol's.