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# 'Muh! By 1950, we'll put a man on Saturn!'


But for an accident of birth, the outcome of The Odessa Conference and, by consequence, world history, could have been very much different.
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:04, archived)
# Patrick Moore...
plays the xylophone
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:07, archived)
# Pa Pa PaPaPa PATRICK!
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:16, archived)
# Where the hell
is Sunshine Elephant when you need him?
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:34, archived)
# Um
I tried to look this up and get it... but I don't.

help.. my 20th century history is vague
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:09, archived)
# That bloke in the hat (not Stalin)
was Mr Molotov, who gave his name to the famous 'Molotov cocktail'. The Yalta Conference is where the Cold War is said to have begun as the Yanks and Russians basically carved the world up between them whilst Churchill resignedly realised Eastern Europe was going to be Bolshevised "and there isn't a ruddy thing I can do about it"
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:21, archived)
# ah I see
not a ruddy thing.
so I take it that patrick moore replaces churchill.

and you can just see Armenia with the naked eye...
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:25, archived)
# That looks more like
the meeting at Tehran.
/pedant
(, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 23:39, archived)