phalamir: Bootleg: How did a country that uses the weirdest measurements manage to be the only ones to land people on the moon?

By not being bombed to shiat in WW2.  Between Europe spending a decade rebuilding and paying the Marshal Plan money back to US industry for the stuff to rebuild, the US had a large war chest to fund nuclear weapons development.

And virtually every system not needed to specifically keep 3 yokels alive was there to be a live test for nuclear weapons systems.  The rockets, the guidence, everything except life support, was directly ported over into ICBMs - and considering there were ideas for pigeon-guided missiles, even the life support was for killing people.  The Apollo program had jack, fark, and all to do with science, or discovery, or any of that liberal, pointdexter bullshiat - it was purely an exercise in how to turn the Earth into a glass marble.  If Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins had been immediately killed on launch, but the rockets got the payload into space, not one person in NASA would have shed a single tear or done anything except cheered themselves hoarse.

So, what your question really is, is this: how did a bunch of unrepentent genocidal assholes manage to advance the cause of global genocide?  And the answer "How are you surprised they managed to shoot at the Moon with a weapon?  They had plenty of experience killing Blacks, Native Americans, Mexicans, Latin Americans, and labor organizers.  The Moon was just one more target."

You Are All Sheep: Flowery Twats: phalamir: Bootleg: How did a country that uses the weirdest measurements manage to be the only ones to land people on the moon?

By not being bombed to shiat in WW2.  Between Europe spending a decade rebuilding and paying the Marshal Plan money back to US industry for the stuff to rebuild, the US had a large war chest to fund nuclear weapons development.

And virtually every system not needed to specifically keep 3 yokels alive was there to be a live test for nuclear weapons systems.  The rockets, the guidence, everything except life support, was directly ported over into ICBMs - and considering there were ideas for pigeon-guided missiles, even the life support was for killing people.  The Apollo program had jack, fark, and all to do with science, or discovery, or any of that liberal, pointdexter bullshiat - it was purely an exercise in how to turn the Earth into a glass marble.  If Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins had been immediately killed on launch, but the rockets got the payload into space, not one person in NASA would have shed a single tear or done anything except cheered themselves hoarse.

So, what your question really is, is this: how did a bunch of unrepentent genocidal assholes manage to advance the cause of global genocide?  And the answer "How are you surprised they managed to shoot at the Moon with a weapon?  They had plenty of experience killing Blacks, Native Americans, Mexicans, Latin Americans, and labor organizers.  The Moon was just one more target."

The rockets were derived from ballistic missiles, but far more powerful. The guidance, too was built on an inertial platform designed for ballistic missiles, but navigation in space is completely different from ballistic missile guidance and not applicable. The comms and computer were both specifically designed to do the job of tracking the spacecraft and landing a man on the moon. Very little of the development in the Apollo program is directly applicable to ICBM development. Differe ...