What's with this recent hopium trend where people seem to think that we'll become a space-faring utopia?

  • Katieushka [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    cool i didnt know that. i was a big sucker for space exploration history when i was younger.

    in the 1930s Soviet Space Science was arguably ahead of German efforts

    i didnt even know the germans had a space effort in the 30, since they were a bit worried over the becoming a dictatorship bit

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Look up the Verin Fur Raumschiffahrt, which was an amatuer (read: rich aristo-scientists with no day job and a bundle of under-the-table military funding) society that got snapped up in the mid 30s by the Nazi's, but were basically doing the same liquid fuel experiments Goddard et al were doing in the states before Hitler came to power.