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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020

    Arthur Chu Retweeted The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

    I need all you space fans out there to accept that the reason we went to the Moon in 1969 and we aren't going back now is that the Apollo rockets were a side effect of building nuclear-tipped ICBMs and they were intended as a live demonstration of how easily we could nuke Moscowhttps://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1306748423404687360 …

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    The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinVerified account @IBJIYONGI
    🎶 The idea that “basic science” has ever been driven by curiosity and not other things is Cold War propaganda 🎶 https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/freedoms-laboratory …
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      1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020

        "Why didn't we build a permanent Moon base after Apollo" Because that would have cost an immense amount of money while doing comparatively little to terrify our enemies?

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      2. Yermin Mercedes Stan Account‏ @SowaTheArrogant 17 Sep 2020
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        also the reason Sputnik scared the shit out of Americans (and the USSR was also happy to pretend that's not what they were doing and pretended to be confused about the reaction)

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
        Replying to @SowaTheArrogant

        Missile Command has one of the onscreen enemies be "sputniks" raining down missiles on cities from shorter range and at greater velocity than the ICBMs

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      1. Neil Yashinsky‏ @neilyashinsky 17 Sep 2020
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        The math checks out

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      2. zzz‏ @fzzfzzfzzz 17 Sep 2020
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        For some reason I'd thought that ICBMs came well before Apollo. I now have a much grimmer headcanon for "TEMPORARY I HOPE HOPE HOPE".

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      3. Nathaniel Downes‏ @downix 17 Sep 2020
        Replying to @fzzfzzfzzz @arthur_affect

        While yes, they did, these older ICBMs were not ready-launch systems. They had to be fueled before use. The solid rocket systems such as Minuteman and Peacekeeper were the direct result of the Apollo program and its predecessors.

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      1. Infinite Social Justice  🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷‏ @burkinator20xx 17 Sep 2020
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        I mean we already had better rockets for that specific purpose but yes it was a proxy tech battle for the cold war.

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      1. A-Lx Px‏ @ALxPx 17 Sep 2020
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        I think you're thinking of Martin's Titan II ICBM retooled for use in the Gemini missions, not the Saturn V purpose-built for Apollo, but your point still stands.

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      2. SaturnV‏ @VnrutaS 17 Sep 2020
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        Wrong for so many reasons that I do not even know where to start.

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      3. Gilman Grundy‏ @FOARP 18 Sep 2020
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        Like, NASA is testing SLS next year and at least theoretically going to be back on the moon in 2024? I mean how does he miss that part?

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