Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane. But who can tell me who was the first man to fly an airplane
in England? And in Sweden? Gosh, us Americans are #1 in *everytning*!
Even to fly a helicopter on Mars!
Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane. But who can tell me who was the first man to fly an airplane
in England? And in Sweden? Gosh, us Americans are #1 in *everytning*!
Even to fly a helicopter on Mars!
You were also the first ones to elect an absolute moron as president of the
USA.
We are *proud* of that! No other country will ever match us!
Not even Italy, which has tried for decades. Benito Mussolini
thought of himself as the greatest statesman of all time. And
he was. Just compare footage of Trump and Mussolini. Both use
the same poses, folding their arms the same way, making the
same gestures, even their facial expressions being the same.
Now if only Trump would have thought of shaving his head ...
Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane.
Hello Everybody,
Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane. But who can tell me who was the first man to fly an airplane
in England? And in Sweden? Gosh, us Americans are #1 in *everytning*!
Even to fly a helicopter on Mars!
--Lee
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Black lives matter!
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Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane.
Supposedly someone in NZ beat them - but USA had a better news/propaganda system in place at the time.
We are *proud* of that! No other country will ever match us!
Not even Italy, which has tried for decades. Benito Mussolini
thought of himself as the greatest statesman of all time. And
he was. Just compare footage of Trump and Mussolini. Both use
the same poses, folding their arms the same way, making the
same gestures, even their facial expressions being the same.
Now if only Trump would have thought of shaving his head ...
Mussolini was also fond of uniforms, how smart would your president
have have looked in such an outfit.
Nah, the Ruskies beat you into space.
Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane.
Supposedly someone in NZ beat them - but USA had a better news/propaganda system in place at the time.
Nah, the Ruskies beat you into space.
Both the Wright brothers made it into the air. But one of them
became the first to die in flight (the other was too chicken to
fly after his first experience).
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More Doctors Smoke Camels than Any Other [...]
Nah, the Ruskies beat you into space.
And don't tell'm their Atlas rocket programme was a Belgian thing plus without top-Nazi Von Braun there would not have been an Apollo moonlanding.
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Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane.
Supposedly someone in NZ beat them - but USA had a better news/propaganda
system in place at the time.
A bit like "Who invented the telephone?"
Nah, the Ruskies beat you into space.
And don't tell'm their Atlas rocket programme was a Belgian thing plus without top-Nazi Von Braun there would not have been an Apollo moonlanding.
Both the Wright brothers made it into the air. But one of them
became the first to die in flight (the other was too chicken to
fly after his first experience).
Bullshit.
What does Belgium have to say for itself?
What does Belgium have to say for itself?
Karel Jan Bossart designer of the Atlas launch vehicle. First launch
1957 and 64 years later still in use.
As a result this Belgian engineer is credited with:
* Launch of first communications satellite;
* Launch of first United States orbital manned missions (Mercury and Gemini); * Launch of Mariner probes to Mars and Venus; and
* Launch of Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 to Jupiter and Saturn.
Without Belgians and Nazis the Americam space program would be nowhere.
More Doctors Smoke Camels than Any Other [...]
Dromedary or Bactrian?
We have many (dromedary) camels in Australia, but I'm not aware of anyone sticking a match to them.
i don't really see where you're going with this. are you saying you'd
like to see some history books rewritten? or is it just hot air?
Hello Everybody,
Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane. But who can tell me who was the first man to fly an airplane
in England? And in Sweden? Gosh, us Americans are #1 in *everytning*!
Even to fly a helicopter on Mars!
Ward Dossche wrote to Lee Lofaso <=-
What does Belgium have to say for itself?
Karel Jan Bossart designer of the Atlas launch vehicle. First
launch 1957 and 64 years later still in use.
As a result this Belgian engineer is credited with:
* Launch of first communications satellite;
* Launch of first United States orbital manned missions (Mercury
and Gemini); * Launch of Mariner probes to Mars and Venus; and
* Launch of Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 to Jupiter and Saturn.
Without Belgians and Nazis the Americam space program would be
nowhere.
Possibly true, but what other nation's space program could those people have contributed to (at the time)?
Kees van Eeten wrote to Lee Lofaso <=-
Now if only Trump would have thought of shaving his head ...
Mussolini was also fond of uniforms, how smart would your president
have have looked in such an outfit.
Lee Lofaso wrote to Terry Roati <=-
Gagarin made it into space. But crashed his airplane on Earth,
becoming the first cosmonaut to die in flight.
Lee Lofaso wrote to Ward Dossche <=-
What moonlanding?
Ward Dossche wrote to Dan Clough <=-
Possibly true, but what other nation's space program could those people have contributed to (at the time)?
I think it's a matter of financing and opportunity. It's more
readily available in the US than elsewhere.
Someone our famiy knew in the 1950-ies was a helicopter pilot in
the Belgian military stationed in the then German occupation
zone. He was going to make a big career in the military, then he
met a German girl with relatives in Eastern Germany. They got
married, he was forced out of his job because he could be
armwrestled to give Belgian military secrets (at this point, my
belly is wiggling so hard from a laughing cramp, it hurts) to the Russians.
McDonnelDouglas learned from this event, hired him and he became
chief test-pilot on the DC10 program.
Weren't semiconducters developed by a Hungarian refugee? And
wasn't Apple founded by the illegitimate son of an Iranian
refugee?
Financing and opportunity ...
... and maybe something else ...
More Doctors Smoke Camels than Any Other [...]
Dromedary or Bactrian?
Not sure. Does it matter?
We have many (dromedary) camels in Australia, but I'm not aware of anyone
sticking a match to them.
Makes `em run faster.
Ever watch the Arabian Derby?
Them camels can run!
Yes, but my point above was that there wasn't another space program that those people could have contributed to, back then.
Ward Dossche wrote to Dan Clough <=-
Yes, but my point above was that there wasn't another space program that those people could have contributed to, back then.
I understand what you're saying, and you're not wrong at all. The
simple fact however is there was no space-program at all at that
time <period>.
Rocket development at that time was about creating a delivery
vehicle for nuclear payloads transported outside the Earthly
atmosphere and drop it from 200km up, straight on Red Square
Moscow.
Atlas, which was that intended vehicle was too cumbersome to
deploy as a first-strike weapon, and since the US would not
perform a first strike, the Atlas vehicle would be useless as it
would already have been disabled by the incoming first strike,
who-ever the hostile nation was. With nuclear capable submarines
it became obsolete anyhow but in a 2nd life it proved to be the
lifesaver for what eventually would be the space program and
launched about anything that was to be launched except the actual
Moon missions.
So first there were the rockets, then came the space-program as a
kind of a spin-off. Not the other way around ...
My view, of course.
I think you're correct on all. Thanks.
I think you're correct on all. Thanks.
Don't give me the idea I'm correct too often, I need some quality disaggreement to stay awake. 8-)
Dan Clough wrote to Ward Dossche <=-
armwrestled to give Belgian military secrets (at this point, my
belly is wiggling so hard from a laughing cramp, it hurts) to the Russians.
Ward Dossche wrote to Dan Clough <=-
Atlas, which was that intended vehicle was too cumbersome to deploy as
a first-strike weapon, and since the US would not perform a first
strike, the Atlas vehicle would be useless as it would already have
been disabled by the incoming first strike, who-ever the hostile nation was. With nuclear capable submarines it became obsolete anyhow but in a 2nd life it proved to be the lifesaver for what eventually would be the space program and launched about anything that was to be launched
except the actual Moon missions.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Dan Clough <=-
Dan Clough wrote to Ward Dossche <=-
armwrestled to give Belgian military secrets (at this point, my
belly is wiggling so hard from a laughing cramp, it hurts) to the Russians.
Sounds like a Monty Python reference. They always had it in for
the Belgians.
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