Comment by watwut

2 days ago

Did they? Like, which exactly?

Rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

He later worked at NASA.

  • Don't say that he's hypocritical

    Say rather that he's apolitical

    "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

    That's 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.

Apart from other mentions, they also did cutting edge research on nuclear power and weapons. Some of the scientists understood how massive an undertaking that was, however the political leadership apparently did not, or the world would look different today.

The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. [c] Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

Hypothermia research, sleep deprivation research, etc. really cruel stuff.

  • Most of that stuff was just torture for the sake of cruelty. It lacked the scientific rigor needed to classify it as even remotely close to research, so most of the "data" collected is completely worthless.

    Turns out you can't do proper experiments when the subjects are also being starved and worked to death, when you lack a proper control group, or when you interpret all the results from a heavily racist perspective. And that doesn't even touch the completely nonsensical hypotheses yet.