1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

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Dead Programmer's Cafe

Channeling Alan

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I finally broke down and bought one of those random vintage photo albums on eBay. The one I got used to belong to some Long Island family. It’s full of very cool pictures. The one on the left is from an album, the one on the right is a famous picture it reminded me of: