“The Sputnik crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety in Western nations about the perceived technological gap between the United States and Soviet Union caused by the Soviets’ launch of Sputnik 1. This created a crisis reaction in national newspapers such as the New York Times, which mentioned the satellite in 279 articles between October 6, 1957, and October 31, 1957 (more than 11 articles per day).”
11 articles per day
:michael-laugh:
TFW you have to start giving a shit about math and science education because the other superpower made you look like a fool.
It’s wild how that wasn’t the response when China basically ended COVID in China. Like that should have been a Sputnik moment for the US press. But I guess it’s easier to just claim “they’re lying” rather than actually pressuring the mechanics of our economic and political system to give a shit.
The USSR even beat America to send the first black man in space, a Cuban named Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. :fidel-salute-big: :sankara-salute:
and of course google lies about it when I search “first black person in space”
first person on the moon
first woman on the moon
:thinkin-lenin:
spoiler
I got the receipts because I’m the OC. :comfy:
“Next goal wins guys! Oh, I scored? … I have to go home now, my mom will kill me if I don’t… we all agreed next goal wins, right?!”
