> I was young. My parents had bought me a thick blue book called something like 1001 Facts About Space. One page explained that inside every black hole, as matt

> I was young. My parents had bought me a thick blue book called something like 1001 Facts About Space. One page explained that inside every black hole, as matter spiraled past the fluttering edges of rent time and space, there was a boundary called the event horizon. At that point, the force of gravity became so strong that nothing, not even light, could escape its grasp. OMG!!! From Wikipedia "1957 in science" [0] Astronomy and space exploration Sputnik 1 • October 4 – Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, by an R-7 Semyorka rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. • November 3 – Launch of Sputnik 2, with a dog called Laika on board, the first animal sent into orbit. There is no technology available to return it to Earth. • December 6 – The United States attempts launch of Vanguard TV3 which fails after just two seconds in the air. • Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions. Computer science • April – IBM delivers the first compiler for the FORTRAN scientific programming language. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_in_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_in_science