Watch the 1st American Newsreel of Sputnik Launch

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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[painehope]

Newcaster shouting "We've been pwned! All our basez belong to them!"

Ronald Reagan (after finishing a menage trois w/ Ollie North and his wife, the last 15 minutes of which consist of ole Nancy rolling her 15 feet of distended labia back into it's carrying harness) responds on nationwide television "Testing...testing...we will begin nuclear attack on Russia in 5...4...3-oh shit! Just kidding. To the American people, no need to be worried about the Russkies launching a, uh, well...a something. And we think it has a dog in it - and he does not, I repeat, does not have lasers mounted anywhere on him. Gotta go! Turn that fucking thing off! Nancy - you missed a roll, hide it quick you dumb bitch, the interns are puking!"

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. And next week...and next week. Unless I get cancer like Bill Hicks, where I ripped some of this material from. All errors in time of events and who was alive or in what office are the guy w/ ID 580570, not me. I'm 580569. People get us confused a lot.

Hey, I just noticed that I have 69 in every single issued ID # that I can think of. My SSN, DL, TDC #, /. ID, everything. Fucking weird.

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[painehope]

Forgot to mention : there can be no mistakes about time w/ Ronald Reagan, only names. For other ones, see Legion, Belial, Mammon, Shub-Niggurath, Lucifer, Dagon, et al. Any dark god in any culture stretching back to the dawn of life w/ speech capabilities is only another one of his faces. Notice how he looks thinner in pictures w/ any male of the Bush family? It's pseudopods of his unholy essence animating their lifeless sells.

On a note not dealing with the evil that slumbers behind Reagans' supposedly dead eyes, I think this is possibly one of the only good things that came out of the Cold War (I'm just hesitant to say anything good came out of the Cold War). A shame that we - as a species - can't do stuff like this without anyone being ready to go to war or destroy every living human being (Africa, Utah, and India excepted - no contributions to the human race coming from any of those locations) a damn near random lottery of destruction.

Where is simple human curiosity, drive, intellect, and ballsiness (sp?)? Oh yeah, I forgot - our schools replaced that curriculum w/ Political Correctness and How Pretend An Apple Is An Orange (Ministry Of Truth v0.3).