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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by jacquesm on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:00PM (#28051510)
Calling Werner von Braun an immigrant is a funny thing to do. Immigrants tend to have some choice in the matter. Von Braun and his band of rocket experts were given a pretty stark choice, surrender to the Russians or surrender to the Americans, they chose the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

In a more just world they would have stood trial in Nuremberg.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by nickpp on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:25PM (#28053707)
But they did have a choice and they did choose. Just NOT the USSR, just like all those countless other people over the years all choosing similarly for some crazy reason…
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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by jacquesm on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:56PM (#28054093)
Their first choice was apparently to join and serve the Nazis, the USA was their second choice when that one didn't quite pan out as expected.
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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by nickpp on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @05:32PM (#28054499)
They were evil, not stupid.
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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by jacquesm on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:53AM (#28059137)
Yes, hence my opinion that they should have gone through Nuremberg like the rest of the war criminals instead of being given an exemption because their knowledge came in handy. I see them at the same level as the engineers that designed the gas chambers.
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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:06PM (#28064236)
I'm not sure they really had a choice in the first place. I don't think the Nazis were going to let him and his family leave the country and get a job in America.
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