So I stood under a Sputnik today.

[hi_no_neko]

Well, technically a spare Sputnik. Not a model or some after-the-fact replica, like, an actual spare Sputnik developed by the Soviet space program.And technically there were two of them. One of them was on the ground. I was able to put my face like three inches away from it

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[pyrrhiccomedy]

You should have licked it.

'S not gonna damage it or nothin'. And how many people can say that they've licked a Sputnik?

Can anybody say that?

I would've licked the hell out of a Sputnik.

[hi_no_neko]

Oh god, I so would have. But I pussied out. Anxiety.

So I settled on crouching in front of it for what was probably a slightly-too-log duration of time.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

You're gonna look back on this one day, when you're old, and you're gonna think:

"Damn. This was my one and only chance to lick a Sputnik, and I let it slide right by."

[hi_no_neko]

And it will be but one of many licking-related regrets.

[lanekana]

HOLY SHIT WIN.

[hi_no_neko]

LIKE SERIOUSLY, RIGHT?

[fabledquill]

JKDFJSKJGHJGH
YOU
LUCKY
SOD
AAAAAAAAAAGH
;_________; that is so unbelievably awesome, I can't even.... adkgjaghfg

[hi_no_neko]

I was jittering the whole trip there!

. . . 'course that coulda been because we were driving up along the super-tall one-wrong-turn-and-you-go-careening-into-a-lake hilly parts of town, but still.

[nutburger]

YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BRAG

*sob* But really that sounds like all kinds of AMAZING. LUCKYYY

[hi_no_neko]

YES I DID

[hi_no_neko]

Seriously! Considering all the other big-city things we've got, it seems . . . wrong.