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Sputnik's 45th Anniversary

Posted by michael on Friday October 4, 2002 @12:34AM from the happy-birthday dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today's 45th Anniversary of the day, Oct. 4, 1957, when Sputnik changed the world. "Never before had so small and so harmless an object created such consternation." Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience. Actually the choice of HAM Radio Broadcast frequencies was neither small nor harmless. NASA HQ WAV Audio."

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Small and Harmless by poena.dare · 2002-10-04 00:51 · Score: 3, Funny

"Never before had so small and so harmless an object created such consternation."

They said that about George W's brain, too.