• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Violence was absolutely part of putting a man on the moon.

    The lead scientist used slave labor to build rockets that hit London.

    The rocket technology was important because of ICBMs.

    And the whole thing was a political ploy to defeat a rival.

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      9 hours ago

      Wernher von Braun mused that the tests went perfectly, but the rocket landed on the wrong planet. His research and passion were used for war but that was not their purpose.

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        8 hours ago

        I’m sure that makes the people who died in forced labor camps feel better.

        The V-2 killed more people in its production than it did when used.