Is America Facing Another Sputnik Moment?

Re:Is America Facing Another Sputnik Moment? by heroprotagonist on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:18PM (#15410357)

I'm pretty irritated at the title. It seems to pose a question of whether we are having a watershed moment where an achievement by a competing nation will spur us to greater activity.

But all the article does is rehash history. A more accurate title would be, "It's the Sputnik anniversary, here are some thoughts".

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Re:Is America Facing Another Sputnik Moment? by Nokinside on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:37PM (#15410520)

The message in the article is that NASA is getting into the 60 years old Sputnik era mindset of national gestures and symbolism instead of doing space science or helping actual space economy.

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Re:Is America Facing Another Sputnik Moment? by elpool2 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:29PM (#15410464)

I thought maybe the article was going to be about how the Russians are beating us at the cyber-propaganda game.

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Re:Is America Facing Another Sputnik Moment? by canadaduane on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:21PM (#15410378)

A browser plugin that replaces click-bait article titles with your edited versions would be brilliant.

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Re:Is America Facing Another Sputnik Moment? by namelost on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:29PM (#15410463)

Betteridge's law strikes again.

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