Following WWII, a plan to use a Nazi rocket to put a Briton in space
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Re: Following WWII, a plan to use a Nazi rocket to put a Briton in space
#2The BBC has done several TV documentaries over the years about this. Interesting stuff. Equally interesting was the race to break the sound barrier where a bizarre scenario unfolded of the British inventing it but the Americans flying it first (after the Brits shared the design).
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#3Could you please change the title to be less clickbaity?
A Nazi rocket... as opposed to communism rockets and god-fearing, democracy rockets?
Please.
Re: Following WWII, a plan to use a Nazi rocket to put a Briton in space
#4Could you please change the title to be less clickbaity? A Nazi rocket... as opposed to communism rockets and god-fearing, democracy rockets? Please.
Then the BBC article is just as clickbaity so you'll be needing this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/contact_us/making_a_complaint....
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#5Totally predictable ending.
The potential for this country to get advanced technology well ahead of it's time getting rejected by bureaucrats because of other priorities (or really it serves none of their short term goals).
The same thing happened with our fibre network in the early 90's.
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#6Could you please change the title to be less clickbaity? A Nazi rocket... as opposed to communism rockets and god-fearing, democracy rockets? Please.
'Nazi rocket' is from the original title (although for some reason the title here has been subtly changed - from "How a Nazi rocket could have put a Briton in space").
It's also a specific and potentially interesting piece of information, as opposed to 'communism rockets'. It refers to a specific regime, like someone referring to a 'Roman sword'.
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#7Totally predictable ending. The potential for this country to get advanced technology well ahead of it's time getting rejected by bureaucrats because of other priorities (or really it serves none of their short term goals). The same thing happened with our fibre network in the early 90's.
If it wasn't for xDSL broadband the UK would have been utterly screwed in the early 2000s. So yeah, thanks Sweden!
Re: Following WWII, a plan to use a Nazi rocket to put a Briton in space
#8Could you please change the title to be less clickbaity? A Nazi rocket... as opposed to communism rockets and god-fearing, democracy rockets? Please.
Then the BBC article is just as clickbaity so you'll be needing this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/contact_us/making_a_complaint....
The submission rephrases the BBC's title, so there's not even the excuse that it's just quoting it.
(And in any case it's not just hyperbolic, it's a lie. A rocket based on a modification of a German design, but designed and built in Britain, cannot be reasonably considered a "German rocket," let alone a "Nazi rocket.")
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#9Could you please change the title to be less clickbaity? A Nazi rocket... as opposed to communism rockets and god-fearing, democracy rockets? Please.
Then the BBC article is just as clickbaity so you'll be needing this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/contact_us/making_a_complaint....
Well... no. I am no BBC regular, but an HN regular.
Re: Following WWII, a plan to use a Nazi rocket to put a Briton in space
#10Could you please change the title to be less clickbaity? A Nazi rocket... as opposed to communism rockets and god-fearing, democracy rockets? Please.
Then the BBC article is just as clickbaity so you'll be needing this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/contact_us/making_a_complaint....
It is worth doing this. We pay our license fee specifically so that we get a non-commercial public interest broadcaster (i.e. in this case non-clickbait article titles).
(OK we pay our license fee because otherwise some nasty people take us to court with a criminal charge -- but some of use don't mind paying our license fee because of the whole public service broadcaster thing.)