the chinese used rockets as fireworks. We strapped guys into chairs onto the fireworks and then developed the orbital maneuvers to get them to the moon and back.
Yes, chinese can play Vivaldi on a violin like a robot.
Marlon “the chinese used rockets as fireworks. We strapped guys into chairs onto the fireworks and then developed the orbital maneuvers to get them to the moon and back.
Yes, chinese can play Vivaldi on a violin like a robot”
Your claim that China only used rockets for fireworks is historically false. The Chinese military deployed the world’s first solid-propellant military rockets (fire arrows) to defend against Mongol invaders at the Battle of Kai-feng-fu in 1232. Furthermore, the Ming Dynasty invented the world’s first multistage rocket—the Huo Long Chu Shui (’Fire Dragon Issuing from the Water’)—used specifically for naval combat.
Listen to that podcast I linked above. You don’t, like I didn’t m have much knowledge about Chibese inventions or history
Marlon “the chinese used rockets as fireworks. We strapped guys into chairs onto the fireworks and then developed the orbital maneuvers to get them to the moon and back.
Yes, chinese can play Vivaldi on a violin like a robot”
Also the “we strapped guys”. You do know those were Germans like Von Braun, right?
And, , one of the literal fathers of American rocketry was a Chinese citizen. Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-shen) co-authored the 1943 proposal that created NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He was a colonel in the U.S. military who actively interrogated captured German rocket scientists to kickstart America’s space program.
During the Second Red Scare in the 1950s, the United States federal government accused him of communist sympathies. In 1950, despite protests by his colleagues and without any evidence of the allegations, he was stripped of his security clearance.
Under Secretary Kimball, who had tried for several years to keep Qian in the U.S., commented on his treatment: “It was the stupidest thing this country ever did. He was no more a communist than I was, and we forced him to go.”