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Falkland Islands picture from 400 kilometers above the Earth
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Guermanovich Artemiev, member of the International Space Station Expedition 40 posted this week a high definition picture of the Falkland Islands taken while orbiting from 400 kilometers above the Earth. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhat a fantastic picture and not an Argie nor Argentina in sight!
Feb 04th, 2015 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Born in 1979 in Russian Latvia, Oleg was selected in 2003 to join a group of astronauts RKKE-15 in 2003. Before he had been a member of the Soviet Army stationed in Vilna, Lithuania.”
Feb 04th, 2015 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0That would have been Soviet-occupied Latvia as part of the USSR, and if he was a member of the Soviet Army in Lithuania, he would have been 12 at the time, which sounds unlikely. Apart from those minor points, a wonderful picture and nice to see something positive come from Russia.
This article was posted on La Nacion, it was interesting reading the comments by ordinary Argentines to it. Some of them saying “Oh look a our beautiful M-word”, then others replying to them that they are deluded, they are not ours and they never were ours.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think that the Falkland Islands polarise opinion in Argentina. The Russian astronaut did refer to them as the Falkland Islands however and not that dirty M-word.
NO offence people,
Feb 04th, 2015 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0but looking at the right side of the islands, is it my eyes or does it look like a barking dog.
#4 Briton - I agree it does.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3 Britworker, I'd imagine that he'd referred to the Falkland Islands as Фолклендские острова rather than anything else.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Russian satellites have been overflying the Islands for a number of years now , trying to monitor movements of the US submarines in their pens at Port Stevens .
Feb 04th, 2015 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to Wikileaks , the Santissima Trinidad was capsized by a Seal Team on a training mission launched from a Los Angeles Class sub based there .
@6
Feb 04th, 2015 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually Latvian's do speak pretty good English, any local UK government office office will affirm that one for you.
“Kur es varu pierakstities uz bezmaksas majai un bez naudas”
@Briton
Feb 04th, 2015 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A British bulldog. You're not the first to notice, call it an omen.
@9
Feb 04th, 2015 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, it looks like its trying to get away from something, I wonder what!
Cheers.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The blue of the sea, the white of the clowds, and Malvinas Islands in the middle.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 01:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great picture and great allegory!
You can see from space they aren't part of Argentina.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12
Feb 04th, 2015 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And the red faced Argentines who were utterly humiliated in 1982. The colours are complete.
@4. Not a barking dog. A savage dog about to rip something apart!
Feb 04th, 2015 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Beautiful! And Free!
Feb 04th, 2015 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12 “The blue of the sea, the white of the clowds, and Malvinas Islands in the middle.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great picture and great allegory! ”
Did you surrepticiously play with yourself as you typed this cheesy comment , or are you still so young you play with toy soldiers ?
@17 HAAA!! Best comment on this site.
Feb 04th, 2015 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“......a high definition picture of the Falkland Islands taken while orbiting from 400 kilometres..........” - that's about as close as any Argie is likely to come to the Islands - 400kms in ANY direction!
Feb 04th, 2015 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 012 Billy Hayes
Feb 04th, 2015 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hello sock-puppet, are you lost?
14 Britworker (#)
@12
“And the red faced Argentines who were utterly humiliated in 1982. The colours are complete.”
Smart answer. Couldn't have put it better myself.
Bahahaha Billy Hayes
Feb 05th, 2015 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0A great allegory is that the clouds block out any part of Argentina from the picture.
Here is a report from Bubblear.com that explains why the Argentine way of life is such an alien concecpt to those honourable and decent Islanders.
Feb 05th, 2015 - 02:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0from Roger Cohen, NYT. 2014
”Cohen, just like others, puts much of the blame for Argentina’s relative “underdevelopment” on the “quixotic political concoction” called Peronism, inaccurate and fabricated economic data, closed markets, diminished property rights and an obsession over a “lost little war in the Falklands (Malvinas),” among other factors.
Cohen is a respected international journalist who has worked as a foreign correspondent in 15 different countries, so when he refers to Argentina as the “child that never grew up,” allowing pride, immaturity, and a general disregard for responsible governing to formulate policy, his words carry some weight.
Cohen’s hypothesis is that this mentality, along with a constant preoccupation with giving “expression to (Argentina’s) uniqueness,” is responsible for the Peronist political philosophy that has proven “impossible to shake.” Quite the wordsmith, Cohen defines Peronism as “a strange mishmash of nationalism, romanticism, fascism, socialism, backwardness, progressiveness, militarism, eroticism, fantasy, musical, mournfulness, irresponsibility and repression.””
A good summary I think.
Any comments?
nice to see the left side is covered by cloud so we don't have to look at Argentina
Feb 05th, 2015 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice photo, showing the Falkland Islands as they are, unique Islands set in a blue ocean which defends it fromy the envy of less happier lands.
Feb 05th, 2015 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0@24 downunder
Feb 05th, 2015 - 09:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0I couldn't've put it better myself.
@24 Agreed. And graphical dismissal of the territorial integrity “argument”. Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brasil are zero km away from Arg, don't have 400km of sea between them, and they are not Arg's either.
Feb 05th, 2015 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 4
Feb 05th, 2015 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That has always being my impression too. And I thought I was the only one who may see an animal-shape there.
I´m glad I was not that crazy :)
Ilsen. Can you hyperlink that story so I can read it?
Feb 05th, 2015 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here you go Skip.
Feb 05th, 2015 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0story and quote;
http://www.bubblear.com/peronism-vs-new-york-times-anibal-fernandez-strikes-back/
and original op-ed piece here
http://www.bubblear.com/peronism-vs-new-york-times-anibal-fernandez-strikes-back/
Hope that works, I'm posting from my phone and not sure if the second link is complete. If not , then you can get there from the first one.
Thank you Ilsen, good article.
Feb 05th, 2015 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12
Feb 07th, 2015 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The blue of the sea, the white of the clowds”
The blue of the sea representing the Falklands flag and the white of the clouds representing Argentina's preferred flag-the white one of surrender.
@26 Orbit
“@24 Agreed. And graphical dismissal of the territorial integrity “argument”
Well said-if the islands were 'near' to Argentina we would see Argentina in this picture-exhibit 1-ICJ.
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