And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Could be, but Peenemunde was just the development and test range. The forward launch sites during the war were mostly on the coasts in Belgium and The Netherlands, so it could be there.
The process should not be to try to have no failures at the expense of everything else.
The process should be to learn something from every attempt, whether that attempt met all of its goals ("success") or didn't ("failure"). We only truly fail if we don't learn anything each time we try something new.
I think it was just a short range test…
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ReplyDeleteIt hit the ground, didn't it??
Peenemünde?
ReplyDeleteCould be, but Peenemunde was just the development and test range. The forward launch sites during the war were mostly on the coasts in Belgium and The Netherlands, so it could be there.
DeleteAch du lieber!
ReplyDeleteDEI labor.
ReplyDelete"We aim for the stars, but sometimes we hit London."
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dr. von Braun.
DeleteAnd Mort Saul.
DeleteYou're all overlooking that this could very well have been a successfully sabotaged test.
The process should not be to try to have no failures at the expense of everything else.
ReplyDeleteThe process should be to learn something from every attempt, whether that attempt met all of its goals ("success") or didn't ("failure"). We only truly fail if we don't learn anything each time we try something new.
That's why our early rocket test ranges had such hardened bunkers - the new German-Americans had learned from experience!
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