Sputnik - 50 Year Anniversary

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Sputnik - 50 Year Anniversary

Postby Llewthepoet » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:04 pm

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?
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Postby Bocaj Claw » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:21 pm

Provoked my lifelong fear of commies, eh wot?
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:51 pm

It taught me a funny-sounding name. "Sputnik" sounds like a nickname for somebody who eats a lot of potato chips.
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Postby Svix » Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:03 pm

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.
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:06 pm

"You would destroy our Sputnocks! You're a skeptnik! A lunatnik!"

"Spitnik in his eyenik."

(from a Pogo series about Russians)
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Postby TravisFox » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:07 pm

It got me an A in my sixth grade science class.
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Postby Arloest » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:24 pm

No effect whatsoever.
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Postby CodeCat » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:02 pm

Only that more people, especially right-wing USians, hate me for supporting socialism. Other than that, not much.
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Postby CoreyFox » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:33 pm

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.

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Postby Doc Sigma » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:09 am

No effect whatsoever.
This.
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Postby Zaaphod » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:19 am

No effect whatsoever.
This.
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Postby Comrade K » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:13 am

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.
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Postby Bocaj Claw » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:07 am

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Postby Arloest » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:14 pm

We wouldn't have tang for one thing. And its a kick in the glass. And a pouch.
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Postby TravisFox » Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:50 am

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.

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