[ExI] commies drop one on some hapless prole's house

[Jeff Davis]

Yo, Spike,

Aren't they capitalists now?  Doesn't that mean that a capitalist govt
has underperformed, bested by Marxian rationalists?  Clearly Communism
is the superior system.

YMMV.

jeff

2011/12/24 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
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> Getting into space is one of those things that even Ray Charles would agree
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16326942#story_continues_1
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> Russian satellite debris lands in Cosmonaut Street
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> Another Soyuz rocket launch fails
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> Fragments of a Russian satellite that failed to launch properly have landed
> in a street named after cosmonauts in a remote Siberian village, reports
> say.
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> The Meridian communications satellite failed to reach orbit on Friday.
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> Parts crashed into the Novosibirsk region of central Siberia and were found
> in the Ordynsk district around 100km (60 miles) south of the regional
> capital, Novosibirsk.
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> Residents of Vagaitsevo village said a piece had landed on a house there.
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> The owner of the house, Andrei Krivoruchenko, said that he heard a huge
> noise and a crash as the satellite hit the roof.
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> "I climbed up onto the roof and could not work out what had happened. Then I
> saw a huge hole in the roof and the metal object," he told Russian state
> television.
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> The head of the Ordynsk district, Pavel Ivarovksy, told Russia's Interfax
> news agency that the damage was being examined by specialists and that the
> home's owner would be compensated.
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> The loss of the Meridian satellite ends a disastrous 12 months for Russian
> space activity with the loss of three navigation satellites, an advanced
> military satellite, a telecommunications satellite, a probe for Mars and as
> an unmanned Progress supply ship.
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> Earlier this month, Russia also failed to launch a Soyuz rocket.
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> The next Soyuz launch is scheduled for 26 December from the Baikonur
> Cosmodrome.
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