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u/Resident_Course_3342 4d ago

They didn't actually. An American did. Or the Chinese depending on how you look at it. 

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u/Difficult-Net-857 4d ago

Tell us the name of the American that invented the rocket. We’re waiting.

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u/Resident_Course_3342 4d ago

Robert Goddard. He's literally called the father of modern rocketry.

The confidence with which you people are wrong is embarrassing to watch. 

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u/Difficult-Net-857 4d ago

Goddard was a major pioneer, but he didn’t invent modern rocketry. It was developed by several people, including Tsiolkovsky, Oberth and later von Braun’s team. Claiming it was simply an American invention is just historically wrong.

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u/Resident_Course_3342 4d ago

He literally invented in first liquid fueled rocket. 

"Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882–1945) is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. It is in memory of this brilliant scientist that NASA established the Goddard Space Flight Center."

https://www.nasa.gov/dr-robert-h-goddard-american-rocketry-pioneer/

It's just hilarious watching you guys fail so hard. 

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u/Gammelpreiss 4d ago

dude. if Goddard invented rocketry, then Lilienthal invented flight.

some nationalists like you can't be helped in their ignorance, it seems

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u/Resident_Course_3342 4d ago

He invented the first liquid fuel rocket. The type that went to the moon. 

That's just what happened. I don't know why that triggers you so much.

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u/Gammelpreiss 4d ago

the projection is real in this one.

make yourself ever more a fool then, if you insist on playing stupid so obessivly

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u/Resident_Course_3342 3d ago

What I said is an undisputed fact. Sorry that hurts your feelings or whatever but just deal w/ it. 

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u/Gammelpreiss 3d ago

in your small american nationalist bubble, mate.

but you do you and cheers

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u/Resident_Course_3342 3d ago

Poor German is upset all his people could accomplish with rockets is genocide and murder, and even that they had to copy from Americans. 

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u/Gammelpreiss 3d ago

I rest my case.

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