RU-vid likes long comments? Okay, here you go man. Poland,[e] officially the Republic of Poland,[f] is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia[g] to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory is characterised by a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and temperate transitional climate. Poland is composed of sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the fifth largest EU country by land area, covering a combined area of 312,696 km2 (120,733 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Glacial Period. Culturally diverse throughout late antiquity, in the early medieval period the region became inhabited by the West Slavic tribal Polans, who gave Poland its name. The process of establishing statehood coincided with the conversion of a pagan ruler of the Polans to Christianity, under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church in 966. The Kingdom of Poland emerged in 1025, and in 1569 cemented its long-standing association with Lithuania, thus forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the time, the Commonwealth was one of the great powers of Europe, with an elective monarchy and a uniquely liberal political system, which adopted Europe's first modern constitution in 1791. With the passing of the prosperous Polish Golden Age, the country was partitioned by neighbouring states at the end of the 18th century. Poland regained its independence at the end of World War I in 1918 with the creation of the Second Polish Republic, which emerged victorious in various conflicts of the interbellum period. In September 1939, the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union marked the beginning of World War II, which resulted in the Holocaust and millions of Polish casualties. Forced into the Eastern Bloc in the global Cold War, the Polish People's Republic was a founding signatory of the Warsaw Pact. Through the emergence and contributions of the Solidarity movement, the communist government was dissolved and Poland re-established itself as a democratic state in 1989, as the first of its neighbors.
How Sputnik-1 is doing now (I guess) Around ~20 or something days the 3 zinc batteries aboard ran out. (Wish they used Duracell or an Non radioactive RTG) however even though sputnik stopped broadcasting, it could still be tracked. Almost immediately, the orbit started decaying. however it was planned to deorbit. A while later, sputnik burns up on reentry (edit) I had heard that “Спать” (Sputnik) turned out to mean the word “companion” as well as Sputnik-1 sometimes being called “earth’s first cosmic sidekick”
@@Gordon_Workshop tbh that’s a really depressing way to end a RU-vid legacy, I’m sorry man. I mean people like Matt lowne are still doing content but that’s because they’ve literally gotten to the point where they are too big to fail I just wanna say at least for the record you were one of my big inspirations (along with the rest of the big RU-vidrs, you know em’) to start playing KSP and learn about the in depth science of space travel when I was just a kid so many years ago, like 7 or so years ago. So thank you
