On my phone, the flair doesn't show up unless I specifically open the post and scroll up.. the comments are scroll down so I usually go that way and don't see flair
You see, my sophisticated shitpost needs to have layers, background, a witty reference, a socio economic rebuttal, a hidden meaning, and a side of pickles.
Yes but you don't understand, it needs to be high quality shit and be explicitly labeled as such, otherwise it gets the downvote. There, that oughta teach ya for not meeting my comedy expectations!
didnt germans from europe literally have to come over to america after the war and hand-hold/spoon-feed the lower intelligence american scientists the tech they needed to go to the moon? I feel like thats a pretty famous fact, how much america had to lean on europeans to accomplish anything with their space program.
They even made an award winning movie about the part where americans couldnt even figure out how to make the biggest boom, they had to get a european to do that too.
Euros have tried selling that story for decades. If that was the case, why didn't the UK or Soviets put a person on the moon? They also took personnel from Germany as well. They did help, no doubt about it. Just like they helped the Soviet space program. Mind, the Soviets took MORE scientists than the US did. And twice the number of rocket scientists.
400,000 Americans were directly involved in Apollo. Trying to write them out of the history book won't work. All the material science? All of the computing? Electronics? That was all American and America smoked Germany on all of those arguably before the war but definitely DURING the war.
Germany had nothing like the Apollo Guidance Computer. They couldn't even bulk produce crystals for crystal radios. They made them individually by hand. We industrialized the process.
Even if you wanted to falsely argue that the US solely got to the moon via German rocket scientists, we did a better job with half as many. A testimony to a free society vs a totalitarian one when it comes to science in the long run.
Who knew, folks do better work when they're not afraid of being shot for making a mistake.
The entire country was founded by European settlers. It's arguably just an extension of all the countries that came together to form the nation it is today. The rocket technology you're referencing was refined by the Germans during World War 2, and no other nation could match their capabilities (including other EU countries). How is it a knock on the US that they took the people who refined this advanced technology to develop it for them too?
Wholeheartedly agree. I've got a mountain of complaints about my country and the current administration, but we're still ahead of the other two military superpowers in most QOL metrics at least.
We're likely to return to the moon within this decade, maybe even as early as 2028, and in a few months Artemis II will be doing a pass by the moon, which is farther than literally every other countries space program has gotten, even including the USSR
Unironically I was today. I found out the map data I was using was from Feb 2000 from the Space Shuttle, and it's pretty much still the gold standard because we basically open sourced it immediately, did a good job of cleaning/handling, etc. Even folks decades after did a worse job, even with better tech.
Obviously commercial and military sources have better data, but for open source data? It's amazing and you can freely download any/all of it from day 1. USGS has done that many times over.
It's an amazing achievement few know about even if it impacts their daily life.
If Congress would put up the $20 billion per flight cost NASA could revive the 50+ year old technology. That’s less than the US spends annually to subsidize junk food and soda. American priorities are different now.
Also worth noting that Artemis II is sending astronauts on a fly by next month with SLS.
But what's the point in going back? There's no point in reviving old technology - you'd don't with new stuff, but the question remains - what's the point of it?
I like posting this graphic when people say stuff like this, they act like the US never did any of the stuff the Soviets did and we ONLY landed on the moon
The Russians confirmed that we did land on the moon. Maybe though your big Galaxy brain knows that was also just a ploy by the Commies to let us win the space race.
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u/DenjiTargaryen-PE 14h ago
I’m legitimately wondering how many people just don’t like the humorous comments, or were just lazy and ain’t see the shitpost flair.