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It worked quite well at first - I mean they had Sputnik, Gagarin etc. not bad for a country that was some backwards serfdom just half a century before. But the
by alexgmcm 5y ago
It worked quite well at first - I mean they had Sputnik, Gagarin etc. not bad for a country that was some backwards serfdom just half a century before.
But then they lost their ambition - a major point being when they stopped trying to develop their own computing technology and just reverse engineered IBM chips instead.
- hutzlibu 5y ago"But then they lost their ambition" I rather say, it has to do with economic realities: there was a joke in eastern germany something like: we got no toilet paper, but a cosmonaut, hurey. edit: "Keine Bretter für die Laube Für das Auto keine Schraube Für das Klo kein Papier Aber Kosmonauten haben wir" non rhyming translation: "No wood for the hut no screw for the car no paper for the toilet but a cosmonaut we got"
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoWeird parallel with this American Song: "A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face and arms began to swell. (and Whitey's on the moon) I can't pay no doctor bill. (but Whitey's on the moon) Ten years from now I'll be payin' still. (while Whitey's on the moon) The man jus' upped my rent las' night. ('cause Whitey's on the moon) No hot water, no toilets, no lights. (but Whitey's on the moon) -- Gil Scott Heron
- orlovs 5y agoNah, they run out of German engineers + without futher commercialization of science there is no way forward. There is many good concepts, but almost none got out research phase.