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ON THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY - it is amusing to figure that on Sam Daily Times -*The Voice of the Voiceless*-
The Russian Students, Professors and Teachers .......as readers, all routine, while battling ahead but way, way down in the first column. With just about feeble and even slashing competitive spirit.
Wonder why, Zilli? No one seems to be too eager in taking control of their lives in Russia? True? Can you throw some light on it, Zilli?
For competitions and competitive resolves make very strange bed-fellows : Take the case of Amazon and Ali Baba as they plan to really clash.
Both Giants are planning to spend Billions to lure new shoppers in Southeast Asia and India.
From the concrete warehouses perched on the edge of of potentially vast new markets for online shopping, the Alibaba Group of China hopes, to beat Amazon one head of a lettuce at a time.............
More on that : Chinese giants versus American giants in the days ahead. In the meantime, I return to America versus Russia in the space ventures.
With a great sense of urgency , the Kremlin pressed its scientists to expedite the launch.
On Oct, 4, despite a touch-and-go launch with some nerve racking malfunctions, the Soviets rocked lifted off and placed the first artificial satellite into the earth's orbit.
Sputnik [''satellite'' in Russian ] was a small ball about 2 feet in diameter and weighing less than 200 pounds.
It was equipped with a radio transmitter emitting distinct-beeping sounds that quickly captured the the attention of the entire world.
In particular it was a wake up call for the United States.
The Soviets had kept their intentions secret to the very end. On the day of the launch, the Soviet Embassy in Washington held a reception for the participants of the international conference aimed at coordinating the satellite launches.
During the reception, the head of the American delegation suddenly announced that the New York Times just informed him that a satellite had been sent into the orbit.
He congratulated the Soviet Colleagues, who had broken into triumphal wide grins when just a moment earlier they had professed ignorance of any Soviet launch. .
President Dwight Eisenhower's response was to explain and expedite the original project, still relying on nonmilitary rockets.
On Dec. 6, 1957, the first rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla, but two seconds later lost thrust and fell back ignominiously.
Only after the Eisenhower administration switched back to a more reliable military rocket was the first American satellite launched in into orbit on Jan.31, 1958.
Named explorer 1, it carried several scientific instruments and weighed just over 30 pounds.
WASHINGTON always had realized that Cold War was more than a military competition.
But before Sputnik, it hadn't figured out how much propaganda value lay in science and technology.
Sputnik changed that.
In April 1958, Eisenhower recommended to Congress the establishment of civilian agency for the nonmilitary use of space. Several months later, Congress, led by Lyndon Johnson , the Senate Majority leader and future president -
Established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In the same year, it passed the National Defense Education Act, which provided low - interest loan to students majoring in maths and the sciences.
The Cold War competition in Science and civilian technology and education was in full flight.
Six decades after Sputnik, and after a short pause during the 1990s, Moscow has resumed its Cold War tactics.
No longer able to compete with America in science and technology, Russia now deploys the American - conceived internet and its social platforms for the same nefarious purpose -subverting Western democracies.
America's response in 1957 was a huge investment in space technologies; within 12 years, it had put the first men on the moon.
Today, too, a major investment in cybersecurity by a much wealthier and more innovative West might remind Moscow-
That it cannot afford or win a digital information war, just as it could not, in the long run -win or afford -a space race.
With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the free world. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:
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