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Watch the 1st American Newsreel of Sputnik Launch

Posted by timothy on from the pronounced-spoot-nick dept.

MMBK writes with this snippet from motherboard.tv: "Fifty three years ago this week, the Russians won the space race – or one of its laps – by successfully launching the Sputnik satellite into orbit. This newsreel, the first to report on the launch, recycles older animation about geosynchronic orbits, since all film footage was kept secret (note the very un-Soviet IBM logo on one of the massive computers)."

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  1. Re:Its a good thing by jcr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >I sometimes think how the world would work if there weren't the internet we know of today.

    We'd have an internet based on some protocol other than TCP/IP.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  2. Re:Respect by jcr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    USSR economy "failing so badly" is propaganda.

    Ask anyone who lived there.

    GDP of USSR

    GDP is a pretty slippery number, because it includes activities that aren't productive. You can't eat nuclear missiles, can you?

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."