50 years ago today, the future started

[gridlore]

Happy Anniversary, Sputnik I! The first man-made object to orbit the Earth!

The Wiki page I linked to above has links to recordings of Sputnik's radio signal. Listen to the sound of a new age dawning.

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[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

"Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!"
Sputnik sails giggling through the skies...

(I have the song as an mp3 and thought of it from the title before I saw you'd linked it.)