After a wonderful and lengthy holiday it was back to work last Monday.......and I survived the first week remarkably well. My good boss missed me and so did 'hairplug'....he didn't have anyone to handball his work to and had to do a hard day's graft for a change!
I have now re-built my PC with all the goodies I bought in the US and whew......it flies!!!!!! However I'm still working out a few software bugs that have resulted from imaging my old hard drive......at least it keeps the brain active:-)
It's funny how we're both tired and unenthusiastic after such a good holiday......I can't think why???
Now back to our trivia battle:- What was the first man made object put into space....and by whom?
You may be surprised at this one!!!
9 comments:
Hmmm, the Russian Sputnik seems too obvious... Someone almost certainly sent something up before that, but I don't know what or who.
Not Sputnik....or by Russia
Hmmm, a little Internet research reveals some interesting stuff... But I won't give the answer(s) I found until everyone else has had a chance.
I'll go with the Germans launching some rocket into space during WWII.
Goose has gotten close but the V2 rocket (by the Germans) is a maybe (but probably not really) and only technically so..........so no
Keep trying :-)
I looked it up on the net, very interesting!!!!
Okay, seeing as two of the three of us have looked it up, and I have no idea, you may as well spill the beans.
A steel plate/manhole cover that was used to plug the hole containing a nuclear device - a nuclear test conducted by the US called Pascal B in Nevada in 1957.
The plate allegedly accelerated to 6 times the escape velocity of earth gravity........a slightly controversial answer but I like it!!!
Nice!
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