47 years old, normal flight

Or Cosmonautics Day on the military and space -based U.S..

Sergei Burkov, Head of Google Russia, Mountain View.

For what reason, comrades, a holiday? . or. Yuri's Night. When in the local.

Exactly 47 years ago, he said, ... In Red Square was buzzing holiday. In NASA met the crisis head - profufukali. It is interesting to see where the mood prevailed that day on Moffet Filed. Began the space race. Then there was the first spacewalk, the first docking of the first man on the moon - this time of crisis staff met in the Kremlin. Rovers, rovers, and pictures from the surface of Venus, the joint flight of the Apollo -Soyuz, Space Shuttle and International Space Station. And now, 47 years later, in America, he celebrated the first flight of Gagarin, from which it all began.

And celebrate, I must say, very cool. One half of a huge hangar was assigned to the serious part of the. It looked like a Hall of posters at a scientific conference, with stands of NASA, university laboratories and high tech companies. Subjects from the infrared sensing nebulae to Open Street Maps, from the various applications Google Earth in the national economy to the unmanned aircraft ( drones ), from hybrid cars to the odd spherical robots rolling around in the desert, like a tumbleweed - it turned out that it was the «art» . Everything is quite in keeping with the fact that he loves Google, which was one of the sponsors of this event. But the ... And then the next scene, and her 3D- ballet. Capacitor. Under elektroskripku, cello and Apple laptop. 3D in the sense that the actors did their own dance moves supposedly, soaring above the stage on ropes in a climbing harness, or in zamatyvayas hanging from the ceiling painting in the style of Cirque Du Soleil.

In the second half of the hangar were dancing! . Lights, smoke, basses, such that gut in response - all as. And the characteristic sour smell in the air, despite the ominous signs when entering ... Well, corresponding to the public: the entire San Francisco alternative costumes in the style of Burning Man. Personalities from the explicit to the innocent party people shibzdanutyh. Here and aliens with green husks, and characters from Star Trek-a, and simply ... A girl in a suit, ... e. covered in natural feathers and wings, but with a motor in the back, wings that can be waved. And then next to a young mother with a newborn baby, sleep, and on her chest, kangaroo pouch. At the same time put on the baby trehsotdollarovye Bose Silent Comfort headphones with active noise cancellation, so as not to wake up. Next to a man in a T-shirt with the inscription «I screw robots», not otherwise as a mechanic from a local robotics team:-). Another general, in a skirt, bare- chested tanned. If women can go to the pants, then why not go to the peasants in skirts? . And all under the famous San Francisco electronic underground, with DJ Tipperom headed. I wonder, could the members of the Politburo, sending Gagarin's flight 47 years ago, to imagine, even in the delirium that 's exactly and precisely in such a place will be celebrated this holiday? .