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Feb 13

minipost-Celebrating Valentine’s Day in China

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The Chinese Valentine’s Day is on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese calendar.  So this year’s Chinese Valentine’s Day is still a while yet.

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Feb 13

Space, the inaccessible frontier, or: how I learned to stop worrying about alian invasions and love the rockets

Written by: DJ | Filed under:General | Tags:,
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Something remarkable happened yesterday at about 780 kilometers above Siberia. Love was in the air vacuum at first sight encounter between a U.S. satellite, Iridium 33, and a Russian one, Kosmos-2251. And they immediately multiplied and prospered into at least 600 and increasingly counting descendants set to enjoying high flying life styles for years and decades to come.

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