Re: beep,beep, beep

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:18:06 +0200, Martin Griffith
<mart_in_medina@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:18:00 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich Grise
<rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:43:07 +0200, Martin Griffith wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:12:52 GMT, in sci.electronics.design D from BC
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:53:11 +0200, Martin Griffith

Happy b'day Sputnik

http://www.hparchive.com/Journals/HPJ-1957-09-Sputnik.pdf

How about happy b'day.. b as in burn... Happy burn day on January 4,
1958....
Sputnik burned up through the atmosphere on January 4, 1958..

And look where it got us
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/beehives.html#leo


It looks almost like if you had a spacesuit, you could use them for
steppingstones. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich
I think what is missing from that picture_graph is that the garbage is
moving really fast, and a cricket bat would be more appropriate


Martin

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