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Und His Name Vill be "ELON" -Werner Von Braun
Ze facts… zey are STRANGER zan FEECSHUN? Nicht?
To za moon! Und Mars!
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Ze facts… zey are STRANGER zan FEECSHUN? Nicht?
To za moon! Und Mars!
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Spoiler (sort of)
https://x.com/waltywang/status/1883736901406146618/video/1
How have I never read this book from the ex-Nazi paperclipped to head the US Space Program?
Fascinating stuff:
“And it was here that the genius of great thinkers and inspired artists pointed the path out of desperation. For I sought for some law which should direct the hearts of these men.
Was there, I asked myself, some equation working in their minds as they advanced beyond the frontiers of knowledge, or created immortal music or paintings? But there was no regularity, nothing resembling our so-called laws of nature behind their genius. By no repetitive series of experiments could a mathematical causal relationship be established.
Inspiration put into effect the will of God Himself through the thoughts and deeds of these men. There could only be one answer: it was God, acting through His creatures.
"It was a soul-satisfying illumination of my spiritual darkness to find the transcendental deity manifesting Himself in the creativeness of the spiritual and artistic great. My discovery convinced me that whatsoever is good and desirable is sired by the holy search for perfection and dammed by the receptivity of humility.
"That the majority in their search for truth do not go beyond the material is the greatest of human tragedies. Our schools crowd the minds of our children with knowledge which intoxicates them, perhaps broadening their horizons, notwithstanding. At the gates of the mysteries our schools balk. 'We cannot teach what we do not know' is the slogan. Thus our youth is deprived of humility, their most valuable dowry for the future.”
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Project Mars - A Technical Tale
Werner von Braun (1949) pg205