• I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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    2 months ago

    We don’t have a good reëntry vehicle, so let’s have them eject. We KNOW personal parachutes work. So yeah that cool right Yuri?

    The nonexistent previous reentry vehicle didn’t not fail and kill the previous first cosmonaut, so we didn’t fix any issues and are now fairly certain that you will be fine 😉👌

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      2 months ago

      I wonder if Yuri decided to parachute himself (because he didn’t trust the landing vehicle), and this was made part of the plan retroactively to not embarrass anyone involved.

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        No, this was always the plan. That’s why there are “dead cosmonaut” rumors that predate Gagarin. They used a mannequin multiple times before Gagarin’s flight because they wanted absolutely nothing to possibly go wrong with their propaganda boon.

        And here he is, Ivan Ivanovich (the Russian equivalent of John Doe):