• mercano@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I first learned about Von Braun from the movie October Sky, where four boys in a 1950’s coal mining town start building model rockets; they look up to NASA’s chief rocket engineer.

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        It’s kinda weird to read from people they learned about von Braun in movies first when he was part of history lessons in my school.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yea, I kinda fast-forward and skip the personal drama, I just want to know what happens in the universe.

        I hate part where…

        Season 3 Spoilers

        North Korea gets someone to Mars 🤣

        They should’ve just put China and it’d be much better

        Like I just mentally replace any thing “North Korea” with China and its much more realistic.

        –

        But like, its all fiction, gotta maintain the suspension of disbelief I guess… 🤷‍♂️

        • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          I couldn’t bear the cringe anymore when the

          season 3 spoilers

          step-mom-fetish son of Gordo turns into an outright psychopath and starts ruining basically everything.

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Thanks for the song!

      TIL

      To make this song even more spot on, Lehrer used eight bars from the well-known German national anthem “Das Lied der Deutschen” as a song intro :-)