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Sputnik - 50 Year Anniversary
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:04 pm
by Llewthepoet
It's the event that started the space race and created many people's fascination with space.
What effect has this event had on your life?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:21 pm
by Bocaj Claw
Provoked my lifelong fear of commies, eh wot?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:51 pm
by Tom Flapwell
It taught me a funny-sounding name. "Sputnik" sounds like a nickname for somebody who eats a lot of potato chips.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:03 pm
by Svix
Aha, I was just thinking there should be a thread for this.
Listen to the magic!
http://www.jamsat.or.jp/sounds/sputnik.10s.wav
I love space shiz.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:06 pm
by Steve the Pocket
"You would destroy our Sputnocks! You're a skeptnik! A lunatnik!"
"Spitnik in his eyenik."
(from a Pogo series about Russians)
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:07 pm
by TravisFox
It got me an A in my sixth grade science class.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:24 pm
by Arloest
No effect whatsoever.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:02 pm
by CodeCat
Only that more people, especially right-wing USians, hate me for supporting socialism. Other than that, not much.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:33 pm
by CoreyFox
I prefer the satellite's successor, which launched Laika, the first dog into space. Though they couldn't bring her back alive, she was still an inspiration to the space pioneers of the future.
*sigh* I was hoping i could filk "Major Tom" to be about her, but now i feel like i'm too late.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:09 am
by Doc Sigma
No effect whatsoever.
This.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:19 am
by Zaaphod
No effect whatsoever.
This.
Yes.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:13 am
by Comrade K
I feel that without the launching of sputnik. there would've been no space race, and technology would have been set back many years while the American and Soviet governments concentrated on developing convential military technology, rather than useful communications satellites and the like. And in all likelihood, without the space race, things in my life would be drastically different, and technology would probably be quite a bit behind where it actually is now.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:07 am
by Bocaj Claw
We wouldn't have tang for one thing. And its a kick in the glass. And a pouch.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:14 pm
by Arloest
We wouldn't have tang for one thing. And its a kick in the glass. And a pouch.
I'm pretty sure I love you.
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:50 am
by TravisFox
Only that more people, especially right-wing USians, hate me for supporting socialism. Other than that, not much.
There are many more reasons to hate socialists than mere socialism.
