Oldschool EducationCivil Defense Emergency Preparedness at Marshall Space Flight Center
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Fedi.Video has moved!Little historical footnote: The head of the space centre speaking in the video is Wernher von Braun, who was the Nazis' chief rocket scientist. His rockets killed massive numbers of civilians in London, and he literally worked for Hitler.
The reason he sounds like a stereotypical Nazi scientist is that he actually was one, most fictional ones were modelled on him.
And yet here he is warning about the threat of civilians being attacked 🙄
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Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department" say Wernher von Braun
Brilliant man, undeniably moved humanity forward...but not without a price.
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department" say Wernher von Braun
Brilliant man, undeniably moved humanity forward...but not without a price.
Yes, I was thinking about that song too!
I wonder whether we've seen the full price of von Braun's work yet 😩 He is wringing his hands in the video about how terrible it is that everyone is now within 30 minutes of being killed by long range rockets, but it's a situation he himself actively helped to bring about. He planned long range rockets for Nazi Germany which would have reached America, and then carried on that work post-war knowing they would carry nukes.
On a happier note, that song is now in the public domain thanks to generosity of the singer/writer:
They are on an official site here:
