Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

On 01/11/2024 18:06, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 10:36:54 +0100, D wrote:
 

Apart from the fact that the US had rocket research going on in
parallel,
Germany and the US are very much part of the same cultural hemisphere,
so I don't think that is a good counter argument.
>
Relying on Mr. von Braun no doubt accelerated the research.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Robert_H._Goddard#Lack_of_vision_in_the_United_States
 Goddard was dismissed as a crank; real physicists didn't get their hands
dirty. He had to scramble for funding and to attract any interest.
Meanwhile Germany was pounding Britain with V-2s.
 

Americans aren't really that good at inventing stuff.
What they are good at is taking a design and throwing money at it to create a mass produced product that will sell to an enormous marketplace that all speaks the same language. Mostly.
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"When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics."
Josef Stalin