There is a dog, inappropriately named “Nig”.
This sounds overly pedantic. On Earth should mean anyone who isn’t in space. So those who are below the Karman Line (100-kilometer altitude) are on Earth.
By this logic, if I jump two feet off the ground, I would not be “on Earth” anymore.
How about the photograph that showed every human, alive or dead within the frame of the picture. Except Michael Collins.
Who launched missiles at the SR-71?
You couldn’t do that now. Since then, some people have had their ashes scattered in space, so they may be long gone from any similar photo taken now (or in the future).
I don’t think the ashes are scattered in space. They are suborbital flights and the ashes will burn up on re-entry. There is someone ‘buried’ on the moon though.
It sounds like they’re ramping up for “burying” others there as well.
DNA storage, too? I didn’t realize they actually sterilize some space craft, not wanting to send invasive species to other worlds.
But then, tardigrades might still survive the trip.
Why are you asking me? According to the Wikipedia entry, Blackbirds were shot at by the USSR, North Vietnam, and Libya. Other countries, too, perhaps, but you’ll have to find them yourself.
Because it flew so high (88,000 feet) and so fast (Mach 3.5), it was beyond the range of any AAM or SAM. Its stealth characteristics gave it the radar cross-section of a much smaller plane. For these reasons, no Blackbird was ever lost to hostile action.
You posted that they did not over fly the USSR. Why would the Rooskies shoot at them?
Congressman John Lewis sometimes went to comic conventions and cosplayed himself. Cool.
Reminds me of a Pantera.
Like a straight line version of the Pantera. Or the Pantera was a curved line version of that since it came second.
Ciabatta bread was invented in 1982:
Ciabatta - Wikipedia
But I didn’t say anything about the Russians shooting missiles at SR-71s.
But to answer your question, the Russians didn’t like us spying on them, even if we didn’t overfly their borders. We could still “look over the fence” and see what they were doing (building nuclear weapons facilities, or moving troops, for instance) without actually penetrating their air space.
Firing missiles at SR-71s was a way they could evaluate the planes capability. If we actually didn’t fly over Soviet territory it’s because we were getting pictures from space or intelligence by some other means. I don’t believe the story that all of the Soviet Union could be seen by an SR-71 outside it’s borders. Even if there is such line of sight from the altitude of the SR-71 (which I think is doubtful) so much territory would be seen from such an acute angle that there would be too much atmosphere to visually resolve anything.
My mistake.
Perhaps you are differentiating between the USSR and “The Russians”.
I was reminded of this while posting in the Hiding In Plain Sight thread over in CS: In the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, there is s specific reason why Jennifer Saunders’ character is called Eddie Monsoon. Sunders is married to Adrian Edmondson, who had the punning nickname Eddie Monsoon at school.
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God works in mysterious ways:
Olivia Newton-John’s grandfather was Max Born who won a nobel prize in physics.