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Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon	by mikosullivan	2006-11-19 12:55:59
I'd like to recommend to all UFie's a book I just finished, Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon: Tales of a Soviet Scientist, by Iosif Shkolovsky. Shkolovsky was a great Soviet Astronomer and occasional cohort of Carl Sagan. Fans of Richard Feynman will appreciate this collection of anectdotes from a long life of science and authority-tweaking. My favorite story is taken from his days as a graduate student in WW II in which he and other grad students were conscripted into service digging ditches and generally engaging in the miserable but brave life led by most soviets of that time. I won't give away the great revelation from that chapter (I want you to be as surprised as I was) but it's really a zinger from out of the blue. -Miko
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That's a waste of good vodka =) (n/t)	by BluesByNight	2002-03-18 09:35:30
Nah...	by mikosullivan	2002-03-18 09:40:47
the book seems interesting, though	by BluesByNight	2002-03-18 10:10:04
I thought it was the amound of vodka needed	by TehWinnar	2002-03-18 11:49:01
Thanks for the recc.	by BlurOfSerenity	2002-03-18 10:12:11

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