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> BTW, Wernher von Braun was never a general. Just SS-Sturmbannführer

Don't you think he would have been promoted till 69?

Please compare Sergei_Korolev#Awards_and_honours

> his role in the U.S. space program is totally overestimated

IIRC he popularized the idea with the help of a Disney TV show, before NASA was even founded.

NB: I wasn't too serious just watching a lot of alternate reality shows, while weirdos are taking over real governments.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^4: If you were the first to set foot on the Moon, what would be your epigram?
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jul 23, 2019 at 16:17 UTC
    "...he would have been promoted..."

    Probably yes if this dumb ars wouldn't have killed JFK way down in Texas in 1963. The first time i saw my grandfather weep. A real hard-boiled man that survived two big wars. But i wonder what the merits would have been for the promotion: Efficent use of a slide rule? And this thing tool looks like the one my father used.

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      > Probably yes if this dumb ars wouldn't have killed JFK way down /

      • Wernher killed JFK? ... Now that you mention it ...
      • I wasn't referring to John F. when I was talking about the Führer and alternative reality

      Anyway I have to stop this here, Mel and I need to march back to our panzer base.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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        "...Wernher killed JFK? ..."

        No. He didn't. As you know. Probably this is the first time i consider to downvote one of your nodes. But i don't. And who the f**k is Mel? I guess you mean Mel Gibson. I don't know any tank driving Melanie. Best regards, Karl. And i go back to my 8.8.

        «The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

        perl -MCrypt::CBC -E 'say Crypt::CBC->new(-key=>'kgb',-cipher=>"Blowfish")->decrypt_hex($ENV{KARL});'Help

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