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THE WORLD’S GREATEST CREATION SCIENTISTS (VON BRAUN)
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Posted on 02/07/2004 5:41:19 PM PST by bondserv
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:41:19 PM PST
by
bondserv
To: Elsie; AndrewC; jennyp; lockeliberty; RadioAstronomer; LiteKeeper; Fester Chugabrew; ...
Ping me to the moon!!
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:42:32 PM PST
by
bondserv
(Alignment is critical.)
It is as difficult for me to understand a
scientist who does not acknowledge the
presence of a superior rationality behind the
existence of the universe as it is to
comprehend a theologian who would deny
the advances of science.
Wernher von Braun
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:44:05 PM PST
by
bondserv
(Alignment is critical.)
To: bondserv
Fly me to the moon...
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:44:18 PM PST
by
patton
(I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
To: bondserv
The rockets go up,
Who cares where they come down;
That's not my department,
Says Werner von Braun.
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:44:53 PM PST
by
js1138
To: js1138
HA HA! Is that a quote or just a cool diddie?
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:45:58 PM PST
by
bondserv
(Alignment is critical.)
To: js1138
Call him a Nazi, he don't even frown.
Nazi, Shmatzi, says Wernher von Braun.
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:47:15 PM PST
by
Chris Talk
(What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will one day be.)
To: bondserv
Gather round while I sing you of wernher von braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a nazi, he wont even frown.
"ha, nazi schmazi," says wernher von braun.
Dont say that hes hypocritical,
Say rather that hes apolitical.
"once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
Thats not my department," says wernher von braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old london town
Who owe their large pensions to wernher von braun.
You too may be a big hero,
Once youve learned to count backwards to zero.
"in german oder english I know how to count down,
Und Im learning chinese," says wernher von braun.
Tom Lehrer
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:49:13 PM PST
by
js1138
To: bondserv
HA HA! Is that a quote or just a cool diddie?Von Braun was arrested by the Nazis because, in their words, he cared more about building a moon rocket than helping Germany win the war.
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:53:08 PM PST
by
537 Votes
To: js1138
"That's not my department,
Says Werner von Braun."
Tom Leher - among the best of the best. Who can forget the ever popular periodic table of elements?
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:55:44 PM PST
by
Socratic
(Yes, there is method in the madness.)
To: 537 Votes
Interesting. Too bad he didn't go just one step further and put the most subtle design flaw in the ones that hammered London. He did expect Germany to lose.
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posted on
02/07/2004 5:58:32 PM PST
by
js1138
To: bondserv
"I aim for the stars but sometimes I hit London."
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posted on
02/07/2004 6:07:30 PM PST
by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
To: bondserv
"I Aim At The Stars" (actual title of his autobiography)
"... But Sometimes I Hit London" (whimsical unofficial addition by Mort Sahl)
To: boris
You beat me! What I get for researching before posting.
To: VadeRetro; boris; js1138; 537 Votes; Chris Talk
Consider these points in response to critics:
1. Von Braun was arrested and jailed by the Gestapo.
2. He was charged with resisting the military use of his rockets, and trying to escape.
3. Himmlers awarding von Braun an honorary rank in the SS no more made him a Nazi than awarding Martin Luther King an honorary membership in the KKK would make him a white supremacist.
4. The evil uses of his rockets occupied only a few months at the end of the war.
5. During his release from jail, when the military used von Braun for his advice, he was escorted under military guard at all times and under strict orders what he could say or do.
6. He used his influence to argue for more time (delaying tactics) and better conditions for the prisoners.
7. When he tried to argue for better treatment of the prisoners, he was threatened that it was none of his business, and that he had better shut up or he would be wearing the same prison stripes.
8. His lifelong dream was the peaceful exploration of space. He was devastated when he heard the news that his rockets had been used against Allied cities.
9. After the war, he sought out the Americans, and willingly surrendered not only himself but his whole team. He knew this meant abandoning his fatherland (and who, in spite of evil leaders, does not have some heart for his own country?). He became a patriotic, energetic American citizen.
10. As soon as he reached America, he was eager to help the American space program.
11. He repeatedly gave a full accounting of all his activities during the war, when interrogated by the government and by suspicious critics.
12. His record since the war speaks for itself. A leopard does not change its spots. If von Braun were anything less than a man of integrity, bad signs would have surfaced in the subsequent 32 years in America.
13. The British Interplanetary Society awarded him an honorary membership right after the war. Surely if anyone had doubts about his motives and allegiances, it would be those who were victimized by V-2 rockets raining down on their city.
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posted on
02/07/2004 6:21:51 PM PST
by
bondserv
(Alignment is critical.)
To: bondserv
he was also a Christian and creationist. He couldn't have been a creationist, bondserv, because the FRevos tell us that all creationists are idiots. And he couldn't have been a scientist because all scientists believe in evolution. He must have been just another raving fundamentalist from Arkansas.
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posted on
02/07/2004 6:22:06 PM PST
by
Dataman
To: bondserv; Dataman
Three things he wasn't: a biologist, a paleontologist, or a YEC. It's possible I could be mistaken on the last point but I doubt it.
To: Dataman
Notice his field isn't paleontology or biology?
If a paleontologist in the 1940s had opined that it wasn't possible to send a man to the moon, would you have cared about his opinion?
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posted on
02/07/2004 6:31:54 PM PST
by
John H K
To: VadeRetro
Three things he wasn't: a biologist, a paleontologist, or a YEC. It's possible I could be mistaken on the last point but I doubt it. Meaning what? That he wasn't qualified to comment on the issue? Then what qualifies you?
An honest man would say, yes WVB was a respectable, intelligent man who was also a creationist. But you, with superior intelligence no doubt, pass judgement on him and move on.
Just an observation.
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posted on
02/07/2004 6:38:30 PM PST
by
Dataman
To: VadeRetro
Three things he wasn't: a biologist, a paleontologist, or a YEC. It's possible I could be mistaken on the last point but I doubt it. Meaning what? That he wasn't qualified to comment on the issue? Then what qualifies you?
An honest man would say, yes WVB was a respectable, intelligent man who was also a creationist. But you, with superior intelligence no doubt, pass judgment on him and move on.
Just an observation.
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posted on
02/07/2004 6:39:12 PM PST
by
Dataman
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