From: tgpedersen
Message: 64540
Date: 2009-08-01
>Oops! The importance of getting your records straight...
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@> wrote:
> > > --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Koenraad Elst <koenraad.elst@> wrote:
> > >--- In cybalist@... s.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@ ...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Regardless of their supposed higher intelligence (which
> > > > would make Ukraine an IQ hotspot?)<<
> > >
> > > (KE) Remember "rocket science"? The Russians were the first in
> > > space, Gagarin was from some Ural district, pretty close to the
> > > putative Urheimat ;-)
> >
> > (TP)Realizing that he built the rocket himself, my admiration for
> > the Ukrainians grows by leaps and bounds.
> > And the name of the next one was German Titov. Huh? Get it?
> > Korovlëv was Russian, in any case
>
> ****GK: Not exactly. He was born in Ukraine, his mother was
> Ukrainian (his father was Russian but ran out on them) and his
> early years were spent with his maternal grandparents. He started
> his career there too before moving to Russia. Cf.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov *****