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These things have a way of working themselves out. "Father of Chinese Rocketry" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qia
by greesil 5y ago
These things have a way of working themselves out.
"Father of Chinese Rocketry"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
Except for the 5 years under house arrest part. Wow.
- feoren 5y agoSurvivorship bias, perhaps? That is, all the stories you hear about like this are the kind that turn into stories you hear about -- you don't hear about anyone whose life is just quietly ruined, so it seems like they all work out fine. And of course nothing "works itself out" -- it's people who work them out. It doesn't have to be you -- it's OK to just read the article and move on with your own life -- but whenever things "just work out" it's because someone stepped in and made a positive difference.
- greesil 5y agoAt the macro level, if you're the policy-maker and doing the persecuting, stories like this should give you pause. Of course it's survivor bias for the individual.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoThe whole story is basically “how the USA gave China its space and ICBM program.” I assume “worked out” meant for the Chinese, because it really did.
- kragen 5y agoFor all of humanity. When I worked at Satellogic in Argentina, China's space program was how we got our satellites into space. If we'd been dependent on the US and Russia, we'd've been in bad shape.