Today I Learned (TIL)

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Multiple failures?

The first, and only, truly reusable rocket, launching at rate unapproached, landing like Buck Rogers, is now a failure.

The ideological possession is astounding.

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

cool cherry, where’d you pick it? i checked the hyperloop and full self drive bushes, but they were bare.

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[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago

He has some successes, and some failures.

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Von Braun was also a nazi. Whether by concivtion or by opportunism isn't sure.

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[–] Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

"Once they go up who knows where they come down? 'That's not my department' says Wernher von Braun."

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

We should elect Tom Lehrer, I mean he’s only 96

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Given the time and place, so too would you have been.

Read up on the Polish Blue Police.

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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I would probably not have been openly speaking out against the nazi's in germany during the height of the war, but joining their ranks to advance my career is another point. Maybe I would if I was given the opportunity. Given his status as a rocketscientist, I can imagine that's exactly the opportunity that Von Braun was offered.