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#390412 - Thu Oct 04 2007 09:21 AM Sputnik turns 50
lady1 Champion Poster Registered: Wed Jun 07 2006 Posts: 20697 Loc: Gauteng South Africa	50 years ago today, Russia launched Sputnik 1. It goes to show a lot of very good things happened in 1957. Happy 50th Birthday Sputnik 1. _________________________ "If Life Were Easy Where Would All The Adventure Be?"
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#390413 - Thu Oct 04 2007 09:42 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
Flapflap5 Participant Registered: Wed Sep 19 2007 Posts: 45 Loc: Pibbley land, comcom	sputnik ~~~~~~~~~ Have a good birthday sputnik 1 ! _________________________ Pibbley land its so fun in the mainland of comcom pibbles is to be done
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#390414 - Thu Oct 04 2007 10:12 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
Gatsby722 Pure Diamond Registered: Fri May 18 2001 Posts: 123698 Loc: Canton Ohio USA	Great. Happy Birthday! to Sputnik, and all that ... but now I can be called (rather impolitely, I predict ) "older than the Space Program". Better than "older than dirt", I reckon ... _________________________ "The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful." ... H. L. Mencken
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#390415 - Thu Oct 04 2007 10:23 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
dg_dave Champion Poster Registered: Sun Oct 05 2003 Posts: 24575 Loc: near Stafford, Virginia USA	Quote: but now I can be called (rather impolitely, I predict ) "older than the Space Program". I'm sure twenty years from now there will be an event that people can say they are "older than," but to be able to remember when there wasn't any satellites (outside of the moon) is, in my opinion, a good thing. It was, at least for most, a simpler time when we weren't always rushed. _________________________ The way to get things done is NOT to mind who gets the credit for doing them. --Benjamin Jowett No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt The day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom.
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#390416 - Thu Oct 04 2007 12:57 PM Re: Sputnik turns 50
trojan11 Forum Champion Registered: Wed Nov 01 2006 Posts: 5815 Loc: Santa Ana El Salvador	I remember when Sputnik went up and the non vocal pop tune (quite radical at the time) called Telstar performed by a group called the Tornados. It went to No1. I liked the tune so much that I travelled to Sheffield, in the north, to see the group perform. Big mistake! Hordes of screaming girls, I couldn't hear a note; and to this day I hate 'Beehives' with a passion (couldn't see much either). _________________________ Life is just a bowl of cherries, and that makes for an awful lot of stones.
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#390417 - Fri Oct 05 2007 03:10 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	Even before reading your post trojan, I was mentally dee-dah-darring, to the tune of Telstar! _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#390418 - Fri Oct 05 2007 03:52 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
ren33 Moderator Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 12593 Loc: Kowloon Tong Hong Kong	Here you go! Turn your sound on! _________________________ Wandering aimlessly through FT since 1999.
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#390419 - Fri Oct 05 2007 04:29 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	Actually trojan, thinking about it, Telstar wasn't for the Sputnik, it was for 'Telstar'. To quote from Wiki... Quote: Telstar was the first active communications satellite (launched in 1962), and the first satellite designed to transmit telephone and high-speed data communications. Its name is used to this day for a number of television broadcasting satellites. So that was a few years later. _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#390420 - Fri Oct 05 2007 06:06 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
trojan11 Forum Champion Registered: Wed Nov 01 2006 Posts: 5815 Loc: Santa Ana El Salvador	All these years and I didn't know. Huh! Actually, thinking about it, you have to be right 'cos I was about 16 when Telstar played. I just seem to associate the two, Sputnik and Telstar, for some reason. Odd. I'm sure that I used to have sober moments way back then, hard to remember tho'. Than you Ren, still a nice tune. Edited by trojan11 (Fri Oct 05 2007 06:07 AM) _________________________ Life is just a bowl of cherries, and that makes for an awful lot of stones.
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#390421 - Fri Oct 05 2007 08:32 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
Jar Multiloquent Registered: Wed Apr 11 2001 Posts: 4224 Loc: Texas USA	Well great. Now I'm going to have Telstar playing in my mind all day. However, as DG Dave said, it is a time upon which to reflect when life was less complicated (for me) and the worst I had to worry about was if I was going to stop on my way home from school for french fries. Happy Birthday to everyone who can remember the happening! And, I'm a day late and a dollar short to boot! _________________________ If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. -Dale Carnegie
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#390422 - Fri Oct 05 2007 08:37 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
dg_dave Champion Poster Registered: Sun Oct 05 2003 Posts: 24575 Loc: near Stafford, Virginia USA	I had forgotten about the song entitled "Telstar." It's nice to get to hear it again. _________________________ The way to get things done is NOT to mind who gets the credit for doing them. --Benjamin Jowett No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt The day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom.
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#390423 - Sat Oct 06 2007 12:58 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
Nannanut Multiloquent Registered: Sat Jan 10 2004 Posts: 2470 Loc: Wollongong NSW Australia	So - do I now admit that I saw Sputnik? It was a very chilly night and my darling dad hauled me out of bed and stood me in the back garden. He pointed out this small point of light moving across the sky and told me what it was. I still have that image burned into my brain and I still remember that my slippers got wet in the early morning dew. _________________________ Nothing matters half so much as you think it does. Editor: Movies, Celebrities and General
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