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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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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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The idea that “basic science” has ever been driven by curiosity and not other things is Cold War propaganda