MOS: The Lost Cosmonauts
There’s a theory that Yuri Gagarin was not the first person the Soviets sent to space, just the first one to come back alive.
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MOS: The Tunguska Event
Even in wartime, dropping that much fire power on a random bit of dirt by the Tunguska River, a plot of nothing in the middle of nowhere, would have been a flex.
MOS: Fighting Trauma with Tetris
Troublesome memories show up at 4pm when you’re on deadline to whisper in your ear “it’s been a while, how ‘bout now for some ugly crying?”
MOS: Laika the Space Doggo
Y’all I watched an entire documentary for this and I’m not citing a goddamn thing from it. It involved dreadfully sad scenes with puppies. I […]
Daily MOS: Stanislav Petrov, The World’s Reluctant Hero
All Petrov had to do was follow orders and call up the chain of command that this was happening. Nuclear retaliation from the USSR would almost certainly ensue.
Daily MOS: Tsar Bomba, the Nuke That Scraped Heaven
The world has not since seen a nuclear blast larger than the one Andrei Sakharov created, and went on to spend his last decades fighting.
Daily MOS: Ivan Ivanov and the Humanzees
Because while the hot sperm is flying, other than a sense of ethics and a fear of incurring God’s wrath, what’s stopping you from making some human-primate hybrids? Humanzees, if you will.
Daily MOS: The face of Anatoli Bugorski
“Particle physics is like two Soviet Fiats colliding to produce a bus and a Mercedes Benz 600. That’s the thing about high-energy physics: the total is different than the sum of its parts.”
Daily MOS: The 1959 USSR Smallpox Outbreak That Wasn’t
9.5 million vaccines were distributed, and over 9,000 people were quarantined, ending the outbreak. This all happened in just nineteen days.
Daily MOS: The Crimes of/against Nikolai Vavilov
The man Lenin hired to save the USSR from famine died of starvation in a Soviet prison in 1943.