Tardigrades can survive in a very wide range of environments, including:
- Temperatures between -272°C (degrees above absolute zero) and 150°C.
- The pressure is between hard vacuum and 6000 atmospheres (Six times the pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench).
- No water for 10 years.
- 1000 times more radiation than any other living organism.
It may be the most adaptable and resilient creature known to science.
Werner von Braun: “Hold my beer.”
Such was his relationship with Himmler—and, a few years later, with Kennedy.
A little-known fact: the designer of these two things was the same. Can you guess who it is? Yes, By Braun.
Did you know? The V2 rocket that landed in London was built by the same people who launched the Saturn V to land Apollo on the moon. Did your history teacher tell you?
There are currently some high-profile and overtly political events try Emphasizing the role of minorities in the space program comes close to rewriting history to redistribute credit to black women.
I recommend not opening this topic, because any honest, factual assessment of the space program will inevitably lead to the conclusion that by far the greatest credit goes to…there’s no good way to put it…the actual Nazis.
Any revisionist attempt will be counterproductive.
Von Braun was just one of nearly two thousand scientists, technicians and engineers who came from Germany to work in the United States after World War II, and their work played a rather decisive role in aerospace (among other fields) throughout much of the Cold War – you can read more in the Wikipedia entry Operation Paperclip.
Postwar history is complicated and a lot of things have been cleared up, okay? There’s a lot of stuff you probably didn’t hear in school, and a lot of things you’re doing aren’t quite right.
While I understand the reasoning behind emphasizing the role of minorities, it is neither effective nor honest, nor is sacrificing the truth and rewriting history a good approach (or something acceptable in principle).
Recently, I was trying to explain the concept of representation to my double-A engineer girlfriend, who cuts metal for fun while I cook. Here’s the thing:
I: “…So you see, the idea is that when people see people who look like themselves in certain roles, they feel more confident.”
she: “…”
I: “…because…”
she: “Oh, I get it, I just thought it was cretinism.”
Frankly, I just don’t believe that “increasing the confidence of minorities” is the real reason for them to rewrite history. I think they do this to satirize white middle-class “vanilla America” and its accepted sanitized version of history – but neither of them can handle the unsanitized version. The application of cultural blackface is clearly motivated by resentment rather than kindness, just as socialist policies on the same front are clearly motivated not by love for the poor but by hatred of the rich. It was harsh and oozing.
The problem is that the subtext of blackface culture is not that “black people can do it,” but that “black people have always done it, but their achievements have been stolen and suppressed.” Besides being factually wrong, it instills not confidence but resentment. The Watchers are primarily concerned with dividing society along all possible lines, and I believe that is the point.
My empowering message to black women is: Some people have been horrible to people like you in the past. Nothing can change that. But now you can show everyone who you really are. Awakening is talking arrogant nonsense. You can succeed on your own merits—not being spoiled, being sovereign. Good luck.
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