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Conservatives Hopping Over Google Logo

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Google celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch.

The Los Angeles Times reports that conservatives were offended by a Google logo celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Soviet's Sputnik launch. The search engine regularly tweaks its signature banner for holidays and special events, but apparently not always the right ones. Or so conservatives tell the Times:

Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

Laura Conaway

6:13 AM ET | 10- 9-2007 | permalink

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luckily, scientific achievement is a gift to everyone, not just people who lived within certain borders.

Sent by johann gruber | 10:31 AM ET | 10-09-2007

The launch of Sputnik initiated the beginning of the greatest scientific quest in the history of science. A basketball size satellite that transmitted a "ping" sound to men landing on the moon just 12 years later. The Soviet Union was our cold war enemy then, but because of them we were motivated more than ever before to learn and grow into the scientific power we are now. The technology that makes Google possible, and for that matter, this blog, is based on NASA's accelerated research and "under the gun" pressure that lead to all those wonderful accomplishments, all beginning with Sputnik.

Sent by Jeff | 12:42 PM ET | 10-09-2007

The people who complained about this need to be concerned with bigger issues. I wish I had that much time on my hands.

Sent by Jim Trenton | 5:57 PM ET | 10-09-2007

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