Saturday, August 11, 2007
Flags and Flagmen
As predicted here, the Arctic land grab is kicking off. Cool Canada and doughty Denmark are clearly very annoyed by the Russian action and are coming up with their own strategies. Watch this (icy) space, I say. Meanwhile, it's interesting to learn (as mentioned in that link) that the Russians have flags on the moon too. They got them there first, in 1959, when Luna 2 contrived to scatter Soviet pennants over the lunar surface. All this flag-planting - simultaneously quaint and frightening - rather like Russia, I suppose...
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Have you noticed whenever Russia plants a flag, it's never a human who does it. Always mechanical arms and what have you.
ReplyDeleteSour grapes - it was a nifty ploy of ours.
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