• hihi24522@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    Fun fact, my grandfather was a leading engineer on the Saturn V and other aerospace projects, and according to my dad he apparently got into arguments with Von Braun. Considering the line of work and knowing some of my grandfather’s written down arguments from that time, it’s likely these arguments were more about random physics than anything else, but I like to think it was about von Braun being a Nazi piece of shit.

    I do know my grandparents were very against segregation to the chagrin of their neighbors, so it’s not entirely unlikely right?

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      12 hours ago

      You keep telling yourself that, bud

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        11 hours ago

        If it wasn’t clear, I’m well aware of the unlikelihood of the situation. But what’s the harm in believing such? I mean it’s not like either of them is going to come back from the dead and say: “Actually, we argued about the internal weight distribution from astronaut motion, how it would effect the natural frequency of the capsule, and if that effect would be significant enough to need accounting for, not racism.”

        • logging_strict@lemmy.ml
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          9 hours ago

          von Braun

          i’m Iron fist

          groot

          groot

          What Luke Cage didn’t say 1000x

          i’m bullet proof man

          Would have preferred if out of their mouths came word salads. Actually refreshing