It would be funny if it wasn't so f-ed up. And by the way, what he said will absolutely not happen. 100% bullshit.
"Standing in a power station. On acid." On the history of LSD, electronic music, and 'Selected Ambient Works Vol. II' by Aphex Twin (being re-released to today): thequietus.com/opinion-and-...#aphextwin
Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an often misunderstood album that offers little in the way of chill, but instead a communion with Cornwall
4/ Part 2 of the above: www.thespacereview.com/article/3344/2
3/ A straight ahead narrative history of the preparation for the launch of Sputnik, from the ground level. Kind of like a social history in two parts: www.thespacereview.com/article/3341/1
2/ I curated a collection of translated primary source documents from Russian archives on Sputnik. See here @thewilsoncenter.bsky.socialwww.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ne...#sputnik#soviethistory
Documents added to DigitalArchive.org provide a look at the origins of Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite.
1/ Thread on Sputnik, launched 67 years ago. Here's my take based on archives: Soviet engineers used their media to put out stories that would alarm the US gov into announcing a satellite project, which they took to Politburo to fund their own project, Sputnik: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Despite many revelations on the origins of Sputnik in the 1990s, there still remained some important unanswered questions. For example, we know that c…
For more on the creation of Sputnik, see this collection of declassified and translated Russian documents:
Sputnik was 66 years ago today. I curated a set of about a dozen original Soviet archival sources (translated!) on the origins of the world's first satellite, hosted by The Wilson Center in Washington, DC: www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ne... #histsci #histtech
Documents added to DigitalArchive.org provide a look at the origins of Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite.
