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Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoI work with a guy who I’m used to work for NASA. He makes sure to state that he’s a mathematician regularly.
I believe he referred to the confederates loss in the Civil War a “shame”, and I don’t believe has ever spoken negatively about Nazis. He really really wants to get mad at me, and then I show him that Trump is on Epstein’s list and loudly proclaim exactly what it means - Trump raped kids.
Seeing the hamsters get ground into mincemeat in his brain was interesting. I’m sure he’s already purged it, or it’s fake news, or whatever.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I think they were talking about Werner Von Braun. Who was an actual Nazi designer of the V2 rocket I think. And led our early space efforts.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As was said- “he aimed for the stars and hit London.”
Or as Tom Lehrer sang- “‘Where the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department,’ said Wernher Von Braun.”
Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I was just connecting how it doesn’t surprise me that NASA has nazis working for them, based on my experience with this guy.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Yeah, actually seems like a fair bit of the people that build things for NASA live in the Deep South. And plenty of them I’m sure come up rooting for the wrong side of the Mason Dixon.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Alabama and Florida are where most of NASA is based. There’s also JPL in California, but the rockets are usually assembled in Huntsville, Alabama and, of course, take off from Cape Kennedy in Florida.