Actually, not. The reliance of the US Space Program on german scientists has been quite exaggerated. In fact, they were still fiddling with the concept of vanes inside the exhaust nozzles while gimbaled engines were being developed by American engineers. Atlas and Titan were entirely American designs and the design of the spacecraft is mostly due to Max Faget. They had to overrule Von Braun a lot, he still believed fins were a fundamental part of a rocket stabilizazion system and left to his own device he's have put freakin' wings on the Saturn V. What was interesting about Von Braun's group was their experience with actual rockets, but as the US discarded german-originated designs such as the Redstone and moved to entirely new concepts, the program really picked up pace. He was instrumental in putting the first US satellite into orbit - and that because of petty interservice rivalry. The US would have gone to space and to the Moon without germans.

Isolate and study them so that it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

And one should add, absolutely involuntary.

You should be grateful because those bases are a net gain for the local economies. Close down a NATO base and bye easy money that most cities and towns rely on. As for making a difference, you may not have noticed but Russia didn't manage to take over even Ukraine and that's mostly down to American training and weaponry. Eat American shit, euroboy.

Unfortunately the euro attitude towards hobbies translates into their attitude towards everything: euros just don't have any drive to excel, to stand out, to be the game-changer. We Americans instead have it ingrained from childhood: strive to be the best, if you fail it's ok but you've got to try. That's why America innovates and why Americans abroad are looked at in a weird (and I'd say not too pleasant) way. Wherever I have worked (and that's a lot of Western Europe) people would stare at me with that "he thinks he knows our job better than us" at first and "oh no he's going to change everything we do" later. Nevermind their production levels and their work environment would end up improved.

Europeans do not like change, it's as simple as that: politicians do not like it and ordinary people do not like it. The few real innovators are marginalized if not ostracized, so they leave and then the press laments the "brain drain". I feel sorry for Switzerland because it has very advanced technical schools, the ETHZ and EPFL are about on par with MIT on many levels and in some they're actually forward, but the researchers formed there have to leave because they're expected to work as bankers (and the financial sector in Switzerland is about to die a very nasty death). It could be a technological powerhouse like Israel - and those guys love to make waves. The mindset is simply not there.

If he survives the 4 years. Inmates do not like nerds. He'll be abused in ways you cannot even begin to fathom. He'll be degraded and brutalized and debased. He'll become a human toilet. What will crawl out of prison will be a human toilet. Which is as it should be.

You can't legislate the nuclear fireball back into the original plutonium sphere. You can however take some grassroot steps. Like pointing at users and yell "That creep is taking pictures of our children!" and let human nature take its course.

And yet MediaMarkt/MediaWorld sells "smart" glasses that do that: https://www.mediaworld.it/it/c....

The cat is out of the bag.

The gerbil is up your butt.

The pigeon laid eggs in your skull.

Burn, France, burn. Never liked them baguette shit people anyway. Meanwhile I'm enjoying my 24 C in Engadina. Aaaaahhhh, life is good. It's like farting in the face of a shit cripple in a wheelchair on the metro, you know? You see his face contorting and grimacing and going all "wawawahahwahah" while his nurse twitches her noses and goes "OH CRAP YOU SHAT YOURSELF AGAIN YOU SHIT CRIPPLE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!"

Heroes? Lol. This is life, not a superhero movie. If you hesitate in a life-or-death situation you're dead, or some other people die. The notion that fancy rules could make planned mass murder (war) "civilized" is ridiculous. Go ahead, abide by your rules and when the enemy doesn't care and you lose, you can enjoy living under their heel and console yourself that you were "civilized". You need the whole world to understand that you're not easy pickings.

Your friend would probably have loved to live under the nazis. Is he a nazi, or does he like nazis, or would he be interested in joining the nazi party? News for you, shitboy: civilized nations who are not ready to destroy their enemy and use every mean at their disposal to do so end up being conquered dead civilizations. I'd have gladly nuked Berlin, Rome and anything needed to be nuked in order to win. Your enemy does not care about you and would like to see you dead. If you're not ready to torch them and their families with a flamethrower, just slit your own throat. War is evil. You can't afford to be good when you fight.

Right on! There are WINNERS and LOSERS in every human endeavour, and that's why jocks rule and nerds get their faces shat upon. That said it's good that we finally learned to take proper care of veterans, you had people who had been through hell in WW2 and they were expected to go back and resume their civilian lives like nothing had happened. It took Vietnam and some to learn better. It's good that our nation wins, but our beloved soldiers must be made to feel winners, and they have to know they're supported and liked.

You were duped into thinking he was a lawyer, so all the sexual services you gave him were for nothing, sorry. I would have volunteered to fly that mission, knowing full well what it entailed. You do not fight a war with a hand tied behind your back. You hit the enemy as hard as you can and you make it bleed, suffer and die. War is violence, and moderation in war leads to defeat on the side that is so stupid as to restrain itself. You got a problem with that? I don't care. In fact, I shit on your face.

They simplified some things and added drama (brief conflict among the crew when there was none). If you compare the mid-course correction while earth-bound in the movie with all the excitement and yelling and frantic stuff with the radio comms you'll be surprised at how calm and concentrated they were. That said it's still the best astronaut movie. Check out the book "Lost Moon" if you want more details on 8 and 13.

I did see Lovell in person years ago at an Apollo history-related event. Very nice guy, big friendly smile, was very fond of everyone he had worked and flew with.

Adults have this nasty habit of voting and it's best not to antagonize them at this moment. It's also why the band is until the 16th year. Had it been until the 18th, those new voters would have made their displeasure felt. Kids usually do not care what they could or could not do 2 years ago. It's absolutely safe for the government.