Friday, October 03, 2008

Today In History: Ad astra per nazis...

On this day in 1942 the human race took a great step along our road to the stars, as the first man-made object made it off the planet's surface and into space.

The downside, of course, is that it was a Nazi ballistic missile.

4 comments:

  1. Ös göbt nöschts was ain töytscher Änschenör nöscht kann.

    I.o.w.: Sufficient funding provided, Sänger would be reality.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Saenger

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  2. Have you read the book My Tank Is Fight!?

    If not, go to Amazon and buy it. Now. I swear on my still-living mother's grave that you will not be disappointed.

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  3. Yep. Wouldn't have made it to the moon except for Nazi scientists and unethical experimentation - including Rascher's vivisections of concentration camp inmates used in altitude and oxygen deprivation experiments. The Nazis didn't lose the war, they simply moved...

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  4. 'Strangelove? That ain't no kind of Kraut name.'

    'He changed it when he became a citizen.'

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