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As my American History teacher, Rudolf Roy Show (Cpl, WWII - in a Panzer batallion) used to say, âIf you never do anything, youâll never make a mistake!â I miss his wisdom sometimes.
Nope, HN; he survived, got out, emigrated, went to school in Nebraska, had seven languages, and taught all of one year in Tustin CA. In â61, when the mandatory 10,000-students stadium anti-Communist bloviating was happening, he told us âI canât tell you to actually find, and read, the Communist Manifesto that theyâre shouting about, but how are you to know what youâre supposed to be against, if you havenât?â He at least got to finish the school year.
As Brother Dave Gardner used to say, âAre Americans going to the Moon? Are Russians? Heck, no, itâs Germans on both sides, playinâ rocket ship!â
Just finished Gen. Walter Dornbergerâs V-2, about the real people who worked at Peenemunde (as a break from Michenerâs Space, which inserted several fictitious characters around whom he could weave a story.)
A hundred-plus of the Peenemunde team wound up in El Paso, and then in Huntsville, and were the core of our fledgling space program, when Sputnik went up and scared us into getting busy.
PBarnrob - I think it was a 130 German scientists and technicians - led by Werner VonBraum - that defected to the United States in the closing days of WWII. We also got the remains of, I think, 60+ V2 rockets, materials and supplies. It was the JPL built WAC rocket mounted upon a V2 that became the âBumper WACâ that lofted Explorer I into space, returned the first actual space science and put the United States into the space race. See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Explorer and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=655
Pacejv over 15 years ago
Iâm so far behind, I think Iâm first.
Rakkav over 15 years ago
Excellent, Pacejv!
So does that mean, Prof, that the hurrider you go, the behinder you get?
ben_david over 15 years ago
Just turn around and youâll back up forward.
jrbj over 15 years ago
If heâd quit drinking beer all the time he might be able to reorient himself.
wicky over 15 years ago
jrbi⊠. And your poing being?âŠâŠâŠâŠ
Allan CB Premium Member over 15 years ago
Hmmm I need a backup plan ⊠just a secâŠâŠâŠ. nope, walking backwards didnât change my life.
GROG Premium Member over 15 years ago
And walking backward doesnât undo the things you wish you hadnât done.
fredbuhl over 15 years ago
You cannât even see where youâve been if you havnât been any where.
EarlWash over 15 years ago
Make sure your backup lights work.
yyyguy over 15 years ago
as long as he doesnât have one of those annoying âback upâ alarms.
johnnydoc5 over 15 years ago
My life is still in the moving forward phase. Iâm not sure how it moves backwards what with time being linear and unidirectional and allâŠ
pbarnrob over 15 years ago
As my American History teacher, Rudolf Roy Show (Cpl, WWII - in a Panzer batallion) used to say, âIf you never do anything, youâll never make a mistake!â I miss his wisdom sometimes.
HighNoon over 15 years ago
pbarnrobâŠyour AH teacher fought for the Germans in WWII?
Did you mean Sherman?
pbarnrob over 15 years ago
Nope, HN; he survived, got out, emigrated, went to school in Nebraska, had seven languages, and taught all of one year in Tustin CA. In â61, when the mandatory 10,000-students stadium anti-Communist bloviating was happening, he told us âI canât tell you to actually find, and read, the Communist Manifesto that theyâre shouting about, but how are you to know what youâre supposed to be against, if you havenât?â He at least got to finish the school year.
As Brother Dave Gardner used to say, âAre Americans going to the Moon? Are Russians? Heck, no, itâs Germans on both sides, playinâ rocket ship!â
Just finished Gen. Walter Dornbergerâs V-2, about the real people who worked at Peenemunde (as a break from Michenerâs Space, which inserted several fictitious characters around whom he could weave a story.)
A hundred-plus of the Peenemunde team wound up in El Paso, and then in Huntsville, and were the core of our fledgling space program, when Sputnik went up and scared us into getting busy.
treBsdrawkcaB over 15 years ago
PBarnrob - I think it was a 130 German scientists and technicians - led by Werner VonBraum - that defected to the United States in the closing days of WWII. We also got the remains of, I think, 60+ V2 rockets, materials and supplies. It was the JPL built WAC rocket mounted upon a V2 that became the âBumper WACâ that lofted Explorer I into space, returned the first actual space science and put the United States into the space race. See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Explorer and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=655