Google honors Sputnik

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[Don Joe]

Google, a company that refuses to recognize Christmas, is currently honoring The Soviet space progam by running a stylized "Sputnik" version of their logo on all their pages.

[Don Joe]

It’s late, I’m tired, and I was blown away by their honoring the USSR.

I am now thinking that it’s the 4th of July that they refuse to recognize. They may very well refuse to reconize Christmas too (other than as a generic “holidays” thing). Anyone with a better memory please feel free to correct me.

[Zeppelin]

No, they do the 4th of July, but the best I ever saw for Christmas were snowmen. There may be other, more appropriate Christmas logos, but none that I recall.

Past 4th of July logos...

and Memorial Day...

[HEY4QDEMS]

>>>.... I was blown away by their honoring the USSR.<<<

I don’t view it as honoring the USSR so much as it is honoring a technological achievement of mankind.

The Russians just happened to be first. No sense ignoring a great moment in history because we weren’t part of it.

[newzjunkey]

It’s late, I’m tired, and I was blown away by their honoring the USSR.

It's the HUMAN achievement they're honoring, not the USSR.

[Big Giant Head]

Yeah, and Sputnik was the reason the Vulcans came to Earth....

[frankiep]

I think some people just get offended way too easily. Regardless of who did it, Sputnik was a major accomplishment of the 20th century.

[SkyPilot]

For Ramadan:

[Brilliant]

Looks like Google is trying to establish itself as an international corporation. Probably will bail out and move to Japan of China once Hillary trashes the economy.

[Always Right]

Google, longing for the good old days of the old Soviet Empire. The once great hope for American commies.

[Chickensoup]

They consider themselves a “world company”.

I use Scroogle.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[Halgr]

Google lives in its own little world.....

Unfortunately, its not the real world.

[TomB]

What's it like to live in a world where you are offended by everything?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

“I don’t view it as honoring the USSR so much as it is honoring a technological achievement of mankind.”

I agree.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"Yeah, and Sputnik was the reason the Vulcans came to Earth...."

Earth historical archives from the period indicate Zefram Cochran's warp drive was the reason.

[DaveLoneRanger]

Yes, I’m not sure I take this as any kind of affront to America or liberty.

[NonValueAdded]

I think you have it wrong on this one.

[Nextrush]

Maybe they should honor the captured German (Nazi) scientists who made it all possible for the Soviets to get Sputnik up first.

There was no way the Soviet Union could have acheived anything technologicially without stealing someone else’s technology which is exactly what they did.

[7thson]

I kind of agree. I also think that in being the first, it rattled us to be the best in space.

[rwfromkansas]

Some of you really need to lighten up...

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

A relevant article and thread from earlier in the week that shows that Sputnik was not all it was cracked up to be.

Secrets of 1957 Sputnik launch revealed

[Caramelgal]

Maybe they should honor the captured German (Nazi) scientists who made it all possible for the Soviets to get Sputnik up first.

Be careful who you point that finger at.

Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who was pivotal in Germany's pre-war rocket development program and was responsible for the design and realization of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. Although he had held the honorary SS rank of a Sturmbannführer, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen and worked on the American ICBM program before joining NASA, where he served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the United States to the Moon. He is generally regarded as the father of the United States space program. Wernher von Braun received the 1975 National Medal of Science.

[Izzy Dunne]

Most folks think that Sputnik was the first man-made object put into outer space.

I bought a book for my son called "Backyard Ballistics" which relays the story of Project Bernalillo.

Apparently, a 1957 experiment to determine whether underground testing of nuclear weapons would reduce the fallout relied on a 4-foot diameter, 1000-pound steel plate covering the blast tube.

A high speed camera (160 FPS) showed the plate in place in one frame, and gone the next. Calculations from recorded data indicate that the plate traveled at 41 miles PER SECOND, more or less straight up.

That's well above escape velocity and it's probably still going.

[Always Right]

Some of you really need to lighten up...

I was just making fun of the anti-Christ commies. How much lighter can you be?

[longtermmemmory]

Have they every honored NASA?

[SlowBoat407]

Thanks to Tom Lehrer:

“In Russian and German
I know how to count down...
und I’m lernink Chinese, says Werner Von Braun”

[weegee]

Well they do censor political dissent on google.cn on behalf of the Chinese Communist government.

[STONEWALLS]

...it might be because one of Google’s founder’s was born in Russia....Google is a very ugly corporation....they’re putting in a facility about 30 miles from where I live...good luck to the people in that county...they gave away the farm to get a handful of medium to low pay jobs....Google demanded a large secret incentive package...county/state officials went along with it and cut the deal behind the taxpayer’s back...they should of told those snotty California kids to shove it up their ass.

[VanDeKoik]

Maybe they should just pretend like it didn’t happen so that FR’s version of a bunch of PC DU types wont get offended.

[gracesdad]

“Have they every honored NASA?”

Of course they have. July 20, 2005, for instance, they did the lunar landing.

[gracesdad]

OH MY GOSH!!!! The sky is falling!!!! How terrible!!!!

Sputnik was a pretty big HUMAN achievement. And did you stop to think about the fact that it also helped spur the U.S. to greater scientific accomplishments. Sputnk was actually a pretty good thing for us.

[BenLurkin]

They give usually short shrift to most American Holidays.

Sickening.

[Nextrush]

There’s no doubt that both sides used the same kind of people its just that the Soviets got the best of the bunch.

[rfp1234]

Did they also honor the inventions of the Wright Bros.? Alexander Graham Bell? Ben Franklin? Just curious...

[DesScorp]

“Google, a company that refuses to recognize Christmas...”

Christmas? Hell, they don’t recognize July 4th, Memorial Day, or Veterans Day either.

[SubGeniusX]

Most folks think that Sputnik was the first man-made object put into outer space. I believe the achievement was not that it was "put into outer space" ...

but that is was "put into ORBIT" big difference

[gracesdad]

“they don’t recognize July 4th...”

Wrong. They recognize it every year.

[gracesdad]

In fact, if you had looked at post 4, you’d see three July 4 logos and one from Memorial Day.

[cynwoody]

and Memorial Day...

Nope. That one's from an ongoing contest to provide Google with a Memorial Day logo. You can see the genuine Google holiday logo collection here.

[HungarianGypsy]

Forget about whether or not they honored Sputnik. I’m upset that they didn’t post a Happy Birthday to me. *pout*

[Izzy Dunne]

The book I quoted says that the Russians claimed it was the first man made object put into space.

I don't know for sure, one way or the other.

[SubGeniusX]

Have they every honored NASA?

That would be a .... YES!

Spirit on Mars - January 15, 2004

[cynwoody]

Have they every honored NASA?

Anniversary of Lunar Landing - July 20, 2005

Google are big NASA fans. Click the pic.

[SubGeniusX]

American recognition Google Logos

I tried not to double post examples that had already been done ... I also left out a few Thanksgiving days ...

[SubGeniusX]

Christmas? Hell, they don’t recognize July 4th, Memorial Day, or Veterans Day either.

FAIL

that is a LIE

[steve-b]

Did Al Sharpton teach you how to be offended at the whole world, or did you teach him?

Sheesh.

[DesScorp]

“Wrong. They recognize it every year.”

I was wrong about the 4th, but not Memorial Day.

[DesScorp]

“In fact, if you had looked at post 4, you’d see three July 4 logos and one from Memorial Day.”

I was wrong about the 4th, but not Memorial Day.