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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:Respect by MichaelSmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    Many would argue that going to the moon is a waste of resources

    Humans are a waste of resources

    Thinking is a waste of resources

    Moving is a waste of resources

    Reproducing is definitely is a waste of resources

    I suggest you do us a favour and consider that last point carefully.

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  2. What's old is new again by westlake · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or more scary is the internet could have started as a purely commercial venture. Imagine if it had not existed, and AOL had created their own version of the internet. It is kind of what they were trying to do before the open internet kicked their butts. You would have several private nets (like in the 80s) and eventually, the big ones would buy out the small ones. You would have MUCH less content, as the price to enter the market with a website would be dictated by singular corporate interests.

    What do you think you is happening now?

    The "walled garden" of the iOS is bigger than Linux. iOS tops Linux

    Facebook has 500 million active users, Steam 25 million. PlaystationHome has 14 million. AOL in its prime had 30 million.