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  • He started talking shit about the poor downtrodden snowflake victim Israelis and got shot afterwards. Then Netanyahu puts out a video thanking Americans for the money they extorted from us, which has never happened as far as I recall, and firmly let everyone know that it was absolutely not them who was responsible for his death.

    Can’t imagine what happened there.


















  • Atlas is still running and took some folks to space last year, and Braun was imprisoned by Hitler at some point. Still a Nazi, but I have a feeling they didn’t quite see eye to eye. In any case, it was either kidnap the German rocket scientists, or let the Russians get to them first. That doesn’t mean NASA is Nazi or military. They could make rockets, we couldn’t, and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    Impressed that someone knows that Atlas was derived from a missile. Most people don’t know that.


  • JPL is not a NASA center. It’s a non profit lab that supports government functions. Its not even civil service. It’s kind of like Aerospace Corporation, which is another example of a gov-affiliated non-profit that can support a variety of gov functions. You’re way off on this. Also, DARPA is DoD, not NASA.

    JPL is owned by CalTec really. NASA does not own JPL. NASA wasn’t even stood up well until like 50s or 60s. It absorbed NACA, which might have led to this confusion. However, those people were working nuclear propulsion for space flight, like the NERVA rocket.

    Science should be considered sacred. Say what you will about the US, but NASA is a good org. It’s just crippled by stupid greedy assholes that take all it’s money and go over budget right now.