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That's a pretty random comparison. The Titan II missile killed 54 that I know of, while Uber killed 58 people in 2018, but I'm not sure what that tells us about

by kens 7y ago

That's a pretty random comparison. The Titan II missile killed 54 that I know of, while Uber killed 58 people in 2018, but I'm not sure what that tells us about core memory.

Rebelgecko 7y ago
I just think that it's silly to boycott someone's videos about the a launch vehicle just because they work in missile testing. Especially when you consider the heritage of launch vehicles in general, and the Saturn V in particular The Saturn V's F-1 engines were originally designed for the Air Force. Would you boycott a video about the Saturn V made by someone who actually worked on the thing, because they worked on a part of the Saturn V when it was still a military project? I feel like that is a ridiculous purity test. The Titan series of ICBMs, with light modifications, was a workhorse for America's civilian space program. The Atlas, Delta, and Minotaur families of rockets were also originally ICBMS. AFAIK the only deaths from the Titan II were industrial accidents, which can happen just as easily for a civilian rocket program (although silo conditions did exacerbate the accidents). I don't think it's fair to say that someone who worked on testing the rocket contributed to those deaths— if anything, competent testing should reduce the number of accidents. I won't go too much into the less wholesome background of the Saturn V, which had multiple former Nazis in leadership positions, all of whom had previously worked on rockets like the V-2. The head of the Saturn V program office even gave up his US citizenship in the 80s as part of a deal with the government to avoid prosecution for war crimes and abuse of prisoners during the Holocaust. I don't understand why someone would be willing to accept that, but not accept involvement from a random test engineer at Redstone Arsenal.

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That's a pretty random comparison. The Titan II missile killed 54 that I know of, while Uber killed 58 people in 2018, but I'm not sure what that tells us about

by kens 7y ago

That's a pretty random comparison. The Titan II missile killed 54 that I know of, while Uber killed 58 people in 2018, but I'm not sure what that tells us about core memory.

Rebelgecko 7y ago
I just think that it's silly to boycott someone's videos about the a launch vehicle just because they work in missile testing. Especially when you consider the heritage of launch vehicles in general, and the Saturn V in particular The Saturn V's F-1 engines were originally designed for the Air Force. Would you boycott a video about the Saturn V made by someone who actually worked on the thing, because they worked on a part of the Saturn V when it was still a military project? I feel like that is a ridiculous purity test. The Titan series of ICBMs, with light modifications, was a workhorse for America's civilian space program. The Atlas, Delta, and Minotaur families of rockets were also originally ICBMS. AFAIK the only deaths from the Titan II were industrial accidents, which can happen just as easily for a civilian rocket program (although silo conditions did exacerbate the accidents). I don't think it's fair to say that someone who worked on testing the rocket contributed to those deaths— if anything, competent testing should reduce the number of accidents. I won't go too much into the less wholesome background of the Saturn V, which had multiple former Nazis in leadership positions, all of whom had previously worked on rockets like the V-2. The head of the Saturn V program office even gave up his US citizenship in the 80s as part of a deal with the government to avoid prosecution for war crimes and abuse of prisoners during the Holocaust. I don't understand why someone would be willing to accept that, but not accept involvement from a random test engineer at Redstone Arsenal.