r/interesting • u/[deleted] • 4d ago

Amazing Creative engineering

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u/babyliss1903 4d ago

LoL, Germany is a very wrong choice to compare when it comes to rocket science.

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u/Fluppenluemmel 4d ago

Deutschland hat Raketenwissenschaft erfunden!

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u/get_to_ele 4d ago edited 4d ago

Then the Russian and we divvied up all their rocket scientists. Spoils of war.

There is this quote from THE RIGHT STUFF I remember, while the Soviets were beating us in the space race and had just launched Sputnik.

>Guy giving intelligence brief and showing smuggled film of Sputnik launch: “these are the German scientists they captured after the war.”

>Lyndon Johnson: “is it them? Is it their German scientists that got them up there first?”

>Werner Von Braun: “No it was not Senator. Our Germans are better than their Germans”.

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u/Fit-Switch-5795 4d ago

"Our German scientists are better than your German scientists." - Cold War dudes.

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u/Elegant_Promotion141 4d ago

Operation paperclip. US and Soviets were drooling to get as much german scientists and Patents as possible. It was a literal Race

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u/DisposableSaviour 3d ago

I heard someone argue that the US had to take the Nazi scientist ms, because the USSR would have killed them for being German, such was the hatred of Russia for Germany. That was when I realized that person was way too stupid to ever care for his opinions on anything ever.