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To: ggersh who wrote (174533)	7/9/2021 6:54:50 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Recommended By ggersh marcher Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217830

The article you cited, along with the comments section, all fascinating. Let's watch and see what comes to the surface going forward Having visited Russia (only, merely) twice, my tentative impression is that the MSM spins w/r to Russia might not be completely true, and if untrue in some important aspects, then potentially decisive going forward. As to decisive how, am agnostic. Russians are not dumb, and they are tough. Europe might well buy insurance.

To: ggersh who wrote (174533)	7/10/2021 8:34:55 AM
From: maceng2	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Respond to of 217830

Ref: MOA and the early space race. A great read, thanks. The Russians have always been amongst the greatest of aeronautical and space engineers, no matter if they resided in Russia or the USA. Let’s just get that one acknowledged and out the way. The Russians made great Allies during WW2. I think there are very few complaints on either side. If I may interject about here in the story <<I will leave the story at this point, but perhaps some interesting and hitherto unfamiliar aspects of the early space race have been presented.>> My point would be the author leaves the story about the the time of the Gemini project and the Titan II rockets. Project Gemini - Wikipedia Those flights were a success. The other significant factor is the story in electronics; reliability and miniaturization. There the USA MIC wins hands down. They developed the specification to develop solid state electronics as WW2 ended. Over a 1000 vacuum tubes were needed on advanced bombers by then, and the vacuum tubes broke easily, needed a high voltage supply, and more then one blew up on a typical flight. The USA MIC funded the project to develop solid state electronics, helped developed it, and good 'ol American enterprise picked up the baton and ran with it big time. A very interesting discussion can be had there around the concept of "Central Planning" and "Free Enterprise". A lot of modern day political arguments look kind of silly in the light of the real facts imho. The discussion point could be also extended to the matter of health and healthcare, but that is where I will leave that story -g- The MIC also greased the skids and had an overwhelming contribution to the development of the internet too. Just to stop those pesky ICBM's from wiping out the communications network. The human race maybe would be wiped out by a nuclear war.... but the phones would still be working, Just to show those future aliens, looking in, that we took our jobs seriously. I never realized it was the Russians who developed the first ICBM's (1953) . So they started it eh? -g-