I Remember Sputnik

...and it was a little scary.

Today's San Francisco Chronicle described the spacecraft:

"...a small and rather silly-looking thing, 23 inches in diameter and 184 pounds, with four feathery antennas swept back like a windblown comb-over from its high-gloss sphere."

Oddly enough, that same description matches that of my childhood pastor, except he was a little larger than 23 inches in diameter.

I am just sayin'...(to use the vernacular of today)