• morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 months ago

    … and then some rich parent named their kid after a character from their favorite book. Then that kid grew up to be a spoiled brat who furiously insisted he was a genius despite multiple failures.

    So?

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      5 months ago

      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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    5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

      “Once they go up who knows where they come down? ‘That’s not my department’ says Wernher von Braun.”

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      5 months ago

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

      Read up on the Polish Blue Police.

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        5 months 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.