“Historians now generally regard 2018 as the year of global civilization’s sudden, untimely collapse.
There are a distinguished few, however, who believe it may have occurred up to five years later.”
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On This Day: April 23
1967 -- The first manned Soyuz space capsule is launched by the Soviet Union. Although it had failed catastrophically on each of its three test missions, it manages to survive an astonishing 17 7/8 orbits before plummeting to earth.