Tag: von Braun
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Nazi Salute
Ah, the Elon stans—how delightful their contradictions are! First, they deny: “It wasn’t a Nazi salute!” And yet, in the same breath, they invoke the shadow of Wernher von Braun, the man who quite literally rocketed from the swastika to the stars. Here lies the paradox of modern techno-fetishism: the absolute refusal to reconcile the…
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Oppenheimer vs Von Braun
In a dimly lit room, two of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century—Wernher von Braun and J. Robert Oppenheimer—face each other across a table cluttered with papers, blueprints, and half-empty coffee cups. The atmosphere is thick with tension, each man’s legacy intertwined with the other’s in ways both obvious and deeply complex. Von…
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Elon’s Reverse Von Braun
Elon Musk is a living prototype of the reverse Von Braun, a man who started with rockets and electric cars and ended up in the ideological trenches, slowly backpedaling into the past like a man moonwalking into a burning building. Von Braun had the good sense to launder himself through history’s acceptable filters. He started…