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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Sputnik 50 Years On

Beep Beep.....



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The 50 year anniversary of Sputnik captured my imagination this week as it did for these Sydney Amateur Photographers and Russian Children, with the simplicity and power of what was achieved.

The Canadian-born Harry Messel, professor of physics at the University of Sydney said at the time.

the satellite had no direct military significance at present but its potential is enormous … unless we match Russian technology it will be the end of our present social and economic structure.


Very true. I think some of the current ideas about going to Mars and the idea of inter planetary human civilisations are a bit loopy and best left to Star Wars and the like. How about spending some of the money for this technology on solutions to make our current living environment better and more sustainable.

4 comments:

Liz Hinds said...

I'm so glad there was a photographer on hand to take a photo of the Sydney photographers. What a greta shot (I keep typing great as greta!)

James Higham said...

Fascinating moment in history. I don't agree though that we shouldn't continue to reach out. The poor will always be with us.

Colin Campbell said...

Not so much that, I just think that there are many better things that we could do to help a wider range of people, including people like you and me and our families, to have a better life. It is hard to conceive of a viable life outside earth for other than a small number of people. Besides, why?

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