Science > Physics > Re: Math posers. Re: An new and very interesting intellectual game!
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17 Jun 2005 10:22:23 PM |
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Re: Math posers. Re: An new and very interesting intellectual game! |
OK, brothers, another question to aks:
What great Russian thinker invented the famous Sputnik, the first
artificial earth satellite? And in what year?
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18 Jun 2005 11:51:31 PM |
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OK, brothers, another question to axe:
What great Russian thinker invented the famous Sputnik, the first
artificial earth satellite? And in what year?
OK. Looks like there is not much hope on the Usenet of getting this
question. So here is the answer:
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Chapter 78:
- "What would become of an axe in space? Quelle idee! If you were to
throw it high enough, it would begin flying around the Earth without
knowing why, like a satellite (here Dostoyevsky uses the word
"sputnik", which literally means "travel companion"). The
astronomers would calculate the times of the axe-rise and axe-set,
almanach publishers would put it in their calendars, that's all."
I am not 100% sure that the word "sputnik" wasn't used prior to
Dostoyevsky by some Russian astronomers to describe moons, but I am
sure that Dostoyevsky was definitely the first person to use the word
"sputnik" to denote a man-made object that orbits the Earth.
An axe thrown into the air hard enough to become a satellite? What an
idea! I wonder what Raskolnikov, Khruschev, and Freud thought of this
idea of Dostoyevsky's.
Year? 1879. Long before Tsiolkovsky. To say nothing of Korolev.
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| User: "Keith Ramsay" |
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| Title: Re: Math posers. Re: An new and very interesting intellectual game! |
19 Jun 2005 10:32:05 PM |
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wrote:
|(here Dostoyevsky uses the word
|"sputnik", which literally means "travel companion").
I like the relatively logical nature of Russian:
s- with/fellow
-put- trip
-nik dude. :-)
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Math posers. Re: An new and very interesting intellectual game! |
20 Jun 2005 12:00:52 AM |
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Keith Ramsay wrote:
vkarlamov@yahoo.com wrote:
|(here Dostoyevsky uses the word
|"sputnik", which literally means "travel companion").
I like the relatively logical nature of Russian:
s- with/fellow
-put- trip
-nik dude. :-)
Cool, dude.
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