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> The US program wasn't known for dropping boosters onto villages and dousing residents with hypergolic propellants in the process. While the US program did tak

> The US program wasn't known for dropping boosters onto villages and dousing residents with hypergolic propellants in the process. While the US program did take a lot of risks early on it would be incorrect to suggest any equivalence in attitudes towards risk management. It would be correct to suggest equivalence of attitudes while we were nuking Navy sailors and Nevada hundreds of times, to say nothing of willfully infecting citizens with syphilis, etc, etc, etc.

mlindner 4y ago
Events of over half a century ago bear little relevance to events happening today, right now. You can't use the past to justify the present and the future.
- andrepd 4y ago
  Half a century is a bat of an eye in the grand scheme of things.
  - lttlrck 4y ago
    So how far back _are_ we allowed to go hunting for justifications?
tjpnz 4y ago
I'm talking about NASA, not the US Navy.
WillPostForFood 4y ago
Kinda not correct to compare the space program which isn’t the nuclear weapons program. If you compare the US space program to the Chinese Program, there no equivalence. If you compare the US nuclear weapons program to the Chinese weapons program, you might something more comparable, but China had some pretty wild and reckless testing. Probably won’t surprise many that many test occurs in Xinjiang and affected the Uyghur population. https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/16-october-1964-first-chinese-nuclear-test https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/16-october-1964...
_Algernon_ 4y ago
What's your argument? That we shouldn't strive to be better today, because horrible things happened in the past? I guess it is also OK for china to genocide the Uyghurs, since the Holocaust happened.
- andrepd 4y ago
  No, because the Nazis are universally reviled. A more apt comparison would be the countless foreign invasions and "regime changes" done by the US, which resulted in millions of direct deaths and god knows how much indirect damage, since that is something that is not universally reviled at all.
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mlindner 4y ago

Events of over half a century ago bear little relevance to events happening today, right now. You can't use the past to justify the present and the future.

andrepd 4y ago
Half a century is a bat of an eye in the grand scheme of things.
- lttlrck 4y ago
  So how far back _are_ we allowed to go hunting for justifications?

tjpnz 4y ago

I'm talking about NASA, not the US Navy.

WillPostForFood 4y ago

Kinda not correct to compare the space program which isn’t the nuclear weapons program. If you compare the US space program to the Chinese Program, there no equivalence. If you compare the US nuclear weapons program to the Chinese weapons program, you might something more comparable, but China had some pretty wild and reckless testing. Probably won’t surprise many that many test occurs in Xinjiang and affected the Uyghur population. https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/16-october-1964-first-chinese-nuclear-test https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/16-october-1964...

_Algernon_ 4y ago

What's your argument? That we shouldn't strive to be better today, because horrible things happened in the past? I guess it is also OK for china to genocide the Uyghurs, since the Holocaust happened.

andrepd 4y ago
No, because the Nazis are universally reviled. A more apt comparison would be the countless foreign invasions and "regime changes" done by the US, which resulted in millions of direct deaths and god knows how much indirect damage, since that is something that is not universally reviled at all.
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