TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Greetings Infomaniacs, I got my Christmas tree up this weekend! Very exciting news, I know. This year I just bought a little 4-foot tree to put up, which is much smaller compared to the 7-foot-one taking up space in my storage area. It may not look as nice, but it was a heck of a lot easier to deal with right now!
Enjoy!
MelissaTODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
HINT: (1871-1922), French novelist, critic, and essayist.
RANDOM TIDBITSIn January 1959, the USSr launched the first craft intended to come in contact with the moon, called Mechta. Unfortunately, the astronomers' calculations were off, and the craft missed its mark by about 5,000 miles. Two months later, the United States attempted a similar stunt with the Pioneer IV. It, too, failed to reach the moon.
In 2004, the Messenger probe blasted off, hoping to become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury in 2011. Mercury's orbit speed, small size, and proximity to the sun makes it incredibly complicated to plot a "slingshot" route that will allow for the proper speed and angle to enter the planet's orbit.
High winds and miscommunication caused Soyuz 23 to land in a frozen lake, where it broke through the ice and dragged its two cosmonaut occupants to the bottom. Divers located the craft and connected it via cables to a helicopter, which dragged it to shore. Thanks to their own survival instincts, the two men inside were retrieved alive.
In 1959, the Soviet spacecraft Lunik 3 transmitted to Earth photographs of something never previously seen by human eyes: images from the far side of the moon.
The Soviet Mars I space probe was headed to the red planet in early 1963 when it suddenly fell silent about 66 million miles into its journey. It is now believed that mechanical problems caused the failure, but at the time, many were convinced that Martians had attacked or otherwise disabled the craft in order to avoid detection.
When the United States launched the Pioneer 6 in December 1965, the craft was sent out to orbit the sun and had an expected life span of six months. Incredibly, contact was made with Pioneer 6 as recently as the year 2000, and parts of it are still thought to be functioning even today.
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
ANSWER: Marcel Proust.
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