TIL that Elon Musk is a pretty meh speaker.
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My 4 y/o right now “this is so boring”
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Apparently lost some followers on this thread
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I’ve been reading historical accounts of the space race and one thing I recently found interesting: One big reason that America was behind in the initial space race was because we were ahead in our nuclear arsenal.
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People forget but the space race was directly about a military show of force “hearts and minds”. The only reason we were thinking about space supremacy was because of nukes and ICBMs. Whoever owned space owned the world (so it was thought).
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American nuke technology was really good which allowed warhead designs to be smaller and lighter than Russian designs. Unfortunately...a smaller, lighter nuke meant that USA didn’t need to build really big rockets to produce ICBMs.
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Versus the Russians, who still needed a bigger warhead and therefore bigger rockets to get them into space. Their philosophy was essentially to just keep strapping on more engines/rockets until it worked.
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The R7 was extremely ahead of its time
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Replying to @sgrif
Sounds like most of their space tech was ahead of its time. Would be interesting to read a similar book about the Russian program
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