[–] New-World-Ebola 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago (edited ago)
national socialists invented the rockets that USA used.
[–] acheron2012 3 points 5 points 8 points (+8|-3) ago
Arguably as much as one physicist ever singlehandedly “invents” something, rockets would be Robert Godard (US).
Von Braun (also like real scientists) was quite apolitical. Men of science seldom have time, or the personality, to care about how the unwashed masses organize themselves. This is your strongest evidence that the “climate scientists” are no such thing. If they were scientists studying the climate they wouldn’t have time or hubris to lecture the world on policies that are obviously wrong.
What Von Braun did was TAKE THE GOVERNMENT MONEY! Because governments have a tendency to print as much as they need. And all governments always steal as much as they can from the citizens. It is just what power does to people.
Thus Von Braun was able to advance his theories without the constraints of budget. FUN FACT; After being wisked off to America in 1945 he basically sat in Alabama forgotten and unfundee for the next 12 years. It was not until Sputnik that the US remembered that rockets existed and maybe it would be a neat idea to build one.
At that point history repeated itself. Von Braun once again was given truly unlimited resources. This culminated less than 10 years later I’m the Saturn 1C (sateen V). Which by most measures is still today the most advanced rocket ever produced. Certainly the four decade excursion into the space shuttle was two generations completely thrown away. NASA from 1970 to present is just a federal jobs program. The reason Americans launched last weekend was because someone had the bright idea to give a tiny sliver of that government money to a private company so they could do something useful for the first time in two generations.
[–] HuginnOgMuninn [S] 2 points 4 points 6 points (+6|-2) ago (edited ago)
Godard is Googles answer for 'who invented the rocket'. He certainly built a few prototypes, theorized about space travel. But he is not the inventor of the rocket. His 'rockets' didn't have a turbopump until after 1935, when Von Braun had created the first true rocket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbopump#Early_development
The inventor of the idea of rockets is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He created the Tsiolkovsky equation, still used today. He took the idea of space travel and inserted actual calculations, and wrote at length about the technical aspects of various space travel mechanisms that are being used today, a decade before Godard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
When asked "Who invented the rocket", I'll say either Tsiolkovsky or Von Braun, it's debatable, but Godards only claim to being the inventor is being american.
[–] HuginnOgMuninn [S] 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Von Braun certainly did invent rocketry.
[–] waucka 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
He didn't invent it, but he brought the technology far beyond anything that had existed before. His designs were not the first to fly, but the V2 was the first rocket to leave Earth's atmosphere, and the Saturn V is thus far the only rocket to put a man on the moon.
[–] HuginnOgMuninn [S] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I'll just leave this here. https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1523071748292.jpg
[–] Charilko ago
Meanwhile, the American who invented solid rocket fuel was a fucking Satanist.