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 sate

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.