October 1st, 2007
Satellite of self love
There’s nothing like throwing a bit of metal into the sky to remind you how important you are.
There’s nothing like throwing a bit of metal into the sky to remind you how important you are.
Sean on 
Maddie on
So you’re saying the overabundance of artificial Earth satellites is due to a subconscious denial of heliocentricism, leading to a desire to create an artificially geocentric pocket universe by littering the sky with orbiting junk?
Cause, like, duh. We were all thinking it.
A subconscious denial of heliocentricism. This actually make so much sense! I love it.
Are you sure that’s a satellite?
It looks like a front-loading washer.
Did you perchance read the bit from yesterday’s news about how one of the original designs for Sputnik called for a cone shape but they insisted upon a sphere so it would be like a little planet?
Couldn’t have said it better Joe.
The satellite was intentionally made to look like a front loader… a friend of mine had a party (it was his birthday) in his back yard and he built a rather snazzy portable camp fire using the internals of a dryer… it’s been on my mind.
Actually, it was listening to the news about the Galileo stuff yesterday that did it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system
Whether it’s good news or not, I’m not sure. I think GPS is a bit overated for most things. Maps are way better.
However, I did not know that about Sputnik, I always assumed that the design was purely functional. Do you have a link to the news article?
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352948489&path=!news!today