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How one can save the country

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Bill Davidow:

'The thing that really set me on a course of getting a PhD was Sputnik. I was sitting in a class in October 1957 & Milet Morgan walked in the class & announced that Russia has just launched Sputnik & that it weighted 56 lb & our satellite won't be available for another 6 months & it was only gonna weight 8 lb. He explained the difference in a rocket power required to launch 56 lb satellite as compared to 8 lb satellite & how far we were behind. I just decided that anybody, who had any scientific ability at all, owned to the country to learn how to use it & save the country as the result of that.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYwcPhDH2Rc


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