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    NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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    404 points voxleone | 13 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 1.171s | source | bottom
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    bahmboo ◴[21 Oct 25 19:15 UTC] No.45660320[source]▶
    "The president and I want to get to the moon in this president's term" - Sean Duffy NASA administrator.

    A scary way to set a schedule on a complex project with lives at stake. They don't care though.

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    oytis ◴[21 Oct 25 19:59 UTC] No.45660920[source]▶
    America is becoming a silly place. Lumberjack appointed as a head of NASA for his loyalty.
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    tinfoilhatter[dead post] ◴[21 Oct 25 20:10 UTC] No.45661031[source]▶
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    oytis ◴[21 Oct 25 20:13 UTC] No.45661064[source]▶
    Werner von Braun was competent though, as was Parsons. Being a little silly is fine as long as you can do the job.
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    vlovich123 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:15 UTC] No.45661095[source]▶
    Being a Nazi is being a little silly?
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    1. aduty ◴[21 Oct 25 20:21 UTC] No.45661177[source]▶
    He only cared about sending rockets up. Where they came down was other people's problem.
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    2. spankibalt ◴[21 Oct 25 20:27 UTC] No.45661244[source]▶
    > He only cared about sending rockets up.

    Which extended also how exactly those rockets were produced... and by whom.

    EDIT: Yeah, I get it, the Zwangsarbeiter from the camps building the rockets are not very conductive to the carefully whitewashed "hero technocrat" image certain "hackers" just love to invest in. :T

    3. mulmen ◴[21 Oct 25 20:34 UTC] No.45661343[source]▶
    He was also totally ok with slave labor. He was a voluntary Nazi party insider and SS member. He deliberately chose to participate in Hitler’s totalitarian regime to advance his own goals. This kind of behavior should be remembered and condemned.

    He was a brilliant designer, engineer, and project leader but he is an extremely problematic person for the methods he was comfortable using to achieve his goals.

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    4. foobarian ◴[21 Oct 25 20:46 UTC] No.45661485[source]▶
    Seems isomorphic to today's slave-driving death-marching CEOs that we celebrate so much. In a past time they would be right up there on the podium
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    5. mulmen ◴[21 Oct 25 21:01 UTC] No.45661665{3}[source]▶
    > Seems isomorphic to today's slave-driving death-marching CEOs that we celebrate so much.

    Von Braun used literal concentration camp slave labor. You should reconsider your use of “slave-driving” here because it is a very bad look.

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    6. zorked ◴[21 Oct 25 21:21 UTC] No.45661874[source]▶
    The message you replied to is a reference to an anti-von Braun song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

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    7. drivebyhooting ◴[21 Oct 25 21:44 UTC] No.45662105{3}[source]▶
    Very insightful thought. Which tech CEO today would not have been up on the podium along side the leaders of the third reich? Would you, would I, if necessity required it?
    8. NeutralCrane ◴[21 Oct 25 22:18 UTC] No.45662432{4}[source]▶
    Their point is that plenty among our current batch of sociopathic CEOs would be using concentration camp slave labor where they in Nazi Germany as well. That they don’t is because of the societal restrictions preventing them from doing so.
    9. ternus ◴[21 Oct 25 23:13 UTC] No.45662972[source]▶
    That's not his department.
    10. dekhn ◴[21 Oct 25 23:34 UTC] No.45663126[source]▶
    I always laughed at that line from Lehrer, but Von Braun absolutely cared about where his rockets came down.
    11. dekhn ◴[21 Oct 25 23:34 UTC] No.45663136{3}[source]▶
    I recommend reading "Operation Paperclip" to see the conditions the Nazis put their concentration camp workers in. Not really isomorphic.
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    12. DonHopkins ◴[22 Oct 25 07:53 UTC] No.45666037{3}[source]▶
    Wasn't Vernor von Braun also infamous for poisoning pigeons in the park?
    13. daveguy ◴[22 Oct 25 14:10 UTC] No.45669434{4}[source]▶
    Conveniently this administration is not allowing access to their extrajudicial concentration camps.