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This makes no damn sense. Any contact signal that Sputnik picked up would be via radio waves. Wouldn't any ground station hear this too? And why wouldn't the

This makes no damn sense. Any contact signal that Sputnik picked up would be via radio waves. Wouldn't any ground station hear this too? And why wouldn't the signal keep repeating since, until it got a response? Why hasn't every damn satellite heard it since? Why hasn't it been heard on the ground since? Why didn't frikkin SETI pick it up?

StrawberryFrog 16y ago
It also makes no damn sense since Sputnik 1 had zero ability to receive any signal. Sputnik 1 was a very dumb piece of hardware. It was a proof of concept satellite. All it did was broadcast a radio "ping" that could be tracked. "forgoing the complex, heavy scientific equipment in favour of a simple radio transmitter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 This is conspiracy rubbish.