Photo supplied to studiobonton from a Top Secret Source.
A zero gravity Valentines experiment aboard space station Mir:
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Don’t ask how we came by the photo, it’s Top Secret.
As a result of the experiment, Scientists learned to place the flowers alongside a blue-plate special fruit bowl in an semi-inspired arrangement. We stand shocked and awed at their tenacity to express on 2/14, even under the most adverse conditions.
Estimated cost of Valentines Card: $350 million dollars.
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Mir, or Мир, can mean both world and peace in Russian.
It was humanity’s first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, orbiting for ten years minus eight days before it broke up over Australia, citing irreconcilable differences.
The cosmonauts and astronauts tried to send their Earth-bound Sweethearts a Valentines message, but their good intentions kept drifting away. The result, according to an orbital Keith Richards:
“First the sun and then the moon
One of them will be round soon
Slipping, Slipping away”
Government scientists were rushed in and this photo was the result.
(An exclusive online hint: Velcro!) <- shhh! click on "continue reading" for more "slipping away" info
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THE ROLLING STONES – “Slipping Away”
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Guess its just another dream
That’s slipping away
Each time that I fall asleep
It seems I’m just drifting away
Just as you have touched my heart
Babe I wake up and we’re apart, yeah
And it’s slipping away
Here comes just another day
That’s drifting away
Every time I draw a breath
It’s dying away
First the sun and then the moon
One of them will be around soon
Slipping away
Slipping away
Drifting away
Slipping away
Just as you have touched my heart
I wake up babe and were apart
It seems were slipping away
Slipping away
Slipping away
All I want is ecstacy
But I ain’t getting much
Just getting off on misery
It seems I’ve lost my touch
Well it’s just another song
But it’s slipping away
Well we didn’t sing it long
‘cos its fading away
First the sun and then the moon
One of them will be round soon
Slipping away
Slipping away
Slipping away