Comments on: Sputnikfest http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/09/sputnikfest/ Thu, 17 May 2012 20:57:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Margery Brown http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/09/sputnikfest/#comment-52 Margery Brown Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:08:02 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=6092#comment-52 Thanks Michael for cheering up my day with this spacey news article. It was really great to take a few minutes off from other worldly disasters to visualize this close call, and the cool festival and imaginative food that commemorates such a memorable event. It was also neat to find out about Sputnik, and the role it played in later space exploration. It is just too bad that the citizens of Manitowoc gave the fallen piece of Sputnik back to the Russians. They should have kept it for some kind of Cold War ransom. Or,if we wanted to be friendly, we should have made sure to drop a piece of the moon on their toes. Wisconsin is a beautiful state, and this festival would certainly be worth visiting. One of my former hometowns, Minneapolis, has a sensational yearly ice festival, but you can quickly freeze to death visiting that one. Thanks Michael for cheering up my day with this spacey news article. It was really great to take a few minutes off from other worldly disasters to visualize this close call, and the cool festival and imaginative food that commemorates such a memorable event.

It was also neat to find out about Sputnik, and the role it played in later space exploration. It is just too bad that the citizens of Manitowoc gave the fallen piece of Sputnik back to the Russians. They should have kept it for some kind of Cold War ransom. Or,if we wanted to be friendly, we should have made sure to drop a piece of the moon on their toes.

Wisconsin is a beautiful state, and this festival would certainly be worth visiting. One of my former hometowns, Minneapolis, has a sensational yearly ice festival, but you can quickly freeze to death visiting that one.

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