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10-01-2007, 02:42 AM
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Yes, that one.
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Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
Interesting sidelights as 95 year old Boris Chertok (one of the founders of the Soviet space program) tells all.
Synopsis: It was not part of a master plan.
Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph (AP via May way)
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... "The rivalry in space, even though it had military reasons, has pushed the mankind forward," said Valery Korzun, a cosmonaut who serves as a deputy chief of the Star City cosmonaut training center. "Our achievements today are rooted in that competition." ...
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Take that you scoffers and impugners. 
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10-01-2007, 02:53 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
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Originally Posted by Abdul Alhazred
Interesting sidelights as 95 year old Boris Chertok (one of the founders of the Soviet space program) tells all.
Synopsis: It was not part of a master plan.
Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph (AP via May way)
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... "The rivalry in space, even though it had military reasons, has pushed the mankind forward," said Valery Korzun, a cosmonaut who serves as a deputy chief of the Star City cosmonaut training center. "Our achievements today are rooted in that competition." ...
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Yessiree, bub...
Now we can launch missiles with multiple nuclear warheads to strike targets around the world in a matter of minutes.
We can now also spy on our own citizens without their being aware of it, thanks to spy satellites.
Our government can contemplate spending more money than has ever been considered for a public program to build an assinine ICBM shield and space-based interception program which most likely won't work.
The upper atmosphere is now trashed with all sorts of human-built litter.
And...Don't forget the Tang™.
It's a welfare program for math and science PhDs.
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10-01-2007, 04:15 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
And Velcro.
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10-01-2007, 04:24 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
"'Vonce ze rockets are up, who cares vere dey come down?
Zot's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun"
~ Tom Lehrer, Wernher von Braun
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10-01-2007, 02:24 PM
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Yes, that one.
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
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"'Vonce ze rockets are up, who cares vere dey come down?
Zot's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun"
~ Tom Lehrer, Wernher von Braun
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The point is that doesn't matter any more.
We're in space.
Fuck you and your blood feud against my country and my species.
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10-01-2007, 07:32 PM
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Yes, that one.
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
Lift your eyes to heaven and see the work of MY SPECIES.
A half-century of space flight (CNET)
Selfish motives? Original sin? If you don't like space exploration then I suggest you join a species that doesn't do it.
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10-01-2007, 07:53 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
Wow, I've heard ITSOZ rail against angry nerds at this site, but until now I hadn't found one.
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10-01-2007, 08:25 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
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10-01-2007, 09:22 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
That reminds me there was this guy at the Universist Forum who was post-human or whatever he called himself. Maybe Shelli or Smilin or Freddy or one of the old regulars there remembers. He was totally convinced that all the problems of mankind could be solved by technology and by replacing as many body parts as possible.
Oh, it's called Transhumanism apparently, I think he called himself Transhumanist. He was as loony as Kilik.
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10-07-2007, 01:56 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
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Fuck you and your blood feud against my country and my species.
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Yeah, I can't count the times that I've seen the internets, newspaper pages, and broadcast airways awash in blood from the blood feud against, um, Sputnik or something.
May I suggest that you choose something less arbitrarily moronic, next time you feel the need to trot out your daft "blood feud" rhetoric?
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10-07-2007, 02:36 AM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
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He was totally convinced that all the problems of mankind could be solved by technology and by replacing as many body parts as possible.
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We should cut our entire bodies off and put our brains into robot bodies.
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10-09-2007, 11:04 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
Could I put my brain into a robot shark body?
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10-09-2007, 11:50 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
With lasers?
Sharks with lasers, right?
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10-09-2007, 11:51 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
are there any other kind of robot shark bodies clutch?
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10-10-2007, 01:05 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
No.
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10-10-2007, 04:22 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
It would have the strength of 5 gorillas. And Adrian Barbeau's breasts.
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10-10-2007, 04:34 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
But why only 5 feet tall?
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10-10-2007, 07:07 AM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
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Fuck you and your blood feud against my country and my species.
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Search no longer:
The war on Sputnik!!1!
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10-10-2007, 09:50 AM
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“When they ignore Veterans Day and Memorial Day, I think they’re telling us something about the way they view America,” Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative website, told the Los Angeles paper.
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And here I was thinking they were trying to tell us that they are not talking to the US but to the whole world. I know it is hard for some Americans to realise, but *gasp* there are other countries in the world.
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10-10-2007, 12:53 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
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Fuck you and your blood feud against my country and my species.
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It's hilarious, in the way that blithering idiocy sometimes is, that these same mis-wired conservatrons robotically bitch about "politically correct" attempts to police public speech in accordance with a political agenda.
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10-10-2007, 03:23 PM
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Re: Sputnik at 50: an Improvised Triumph
Is there a particular narcotic prerequisite for the thread? Is it one of those "Where's Waldo?" for junkies things?
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