I'd rather have 1,000 more fat people and have landed 1 man on the moon, than have 100 more =fat people, and not ever have left the atmosphere by ourselves, like britain.

As fat as we are, at least we arn't as stuck and dependent as britain.

Go crawling to the EU for some semblance of world relevance plzzz. And keep bitching about how yur attempts at world conquest (which was really just an excuse for genocide and slavery) have been thwarted. but you really didn't mean any harm right???

Oh dear lord, this gets better :D

As moon landings are all to strive for in life :D

I've a feeling alex and Kenneth Tong would get on well.

When does anyone "bitch" about our "attempts at world conquest" being "thwarted"?

And no, the Empire was not just an excuse for genocide and slavery.

yall keep mentioning him, when are you going to introduce me?

yes it was, and unlike the germans, which at least have a healthy respect for history, we do often see brits on not only this forum, but all over the internet, having reverence for their own attempt at genocide in the world, in fact the british colonial genocide against native americans, carribeans, south americans, australians, indians africans etc, is far worse than anything Hitler ever did against the homosexuals, disabled, and jews during the "holocaust".

Add then the slave trade they spread through the America's, and there's no comparison. Hitler wishes he could have inflicted so much suffering as british colonialism.

I'm Irish. Given my ancestors were victim to the British empire I doubt I'm the right person you should be directing this to.

But who cares how many people the British killed. Nobody cares about statistics, right?

It was German scientists who put you guys on the moon, by the way.

again proving yurself racist. I guess immigrants arn't "real" Americans according to you right?

Why has this been directed in the angle of slavery again?

You know, this is going to be a VERY controversial view, but I really dont get people who get so upset by things that happened absolutely ages ago. like, if it came out that for example, the polish had enslaved britain 2000 years ago, I wouldnt get pissed about it now and bring it up at every oppertunity just(seemingly) to score points :S

Having an Empire wasnt an "excuse" for anything, countries were Colonised for trade and economic purposes primarily, and so we could continue to compete with nations worldwide, possessing an Empire wasnt exclusive to Britain you know.

Of course the actions of the British Imperialism were reprehensible, although they weren't considered to be by the standards of the time, but Britons do not exactly revere the Empire, far from it I would say.

Hitler wiped out half of the worlds Jewish population, as well as millions of other "undesirables" in the space of three years, I doubt he "wishes he could have inflicted so much suffering as british colonialism"

You mean Nazi scientists spared by the U.S. from war trials with the express intent of shipping them over to the states to get them to work on the 'American' space program?

Yeah, them.

lol fail

Let's forget about Roman Empire, the fathers of the modern day democracy, who lasted from 509BC to 476AD (or 1453AD if you include the Eastern Roman Empire)

Do you think America will still exist in 1000/1500 years?

Oh no, I've had this agrument before, according to him the US today is far more powerful than the Roman Empire ever was because all they had was catapults and the US has nukes :rolleyes:

lmao, the Roman Empire would own the American's if they battled :joker: unless America decided to forever ruin another area of the world by dropping their oh so great nuke

Yep, we always seem to have to apologize for slavery, when in some cases their own people sold them off :bored:

Its not even this that annoys me though.

Its just a case of why should we apologise for things that wasnt even us. I know its a bit more complicated than that, but it doesnt need to be.

Basically, its just a big ass grudge...

Its like...I all germans for killing my great great great grandad or anything. Thats just stupid. And I certainly wouldnt hold it against them. It was nothing to do with them :/

And what percentage of Americans, Canadians, all native people of the Americas, did the britsh wipe out? The native Austraiians? Indians? Africans??

Oh yea, that's right, no one BOTHERED to write it down...

Where's Patrick when you need him

who are you referring to specifically? ALl the major german scientists i know of escaped to the US, not "kidnapped by the US" as you are implying.

Please edify us all of the specific NAZI scientists yu are referring to in the US space program.

I scared him away *smiles sweetly* :)

Rudolph Ammann, Rudi Beichel, Werner Dahm, Konrad Dannenberg, Kurt H. Debus, Ernst R. G. Eckert, Krafft Arnold Ehricke, Ernst Geissler, Dieter Grau, Walter Häussermann, Karl Heimburg, Otto Hirschler, Helmut Hoelzer, Hans Hueter, Wilhelm Jungert, Heinz-Hermann Koelle, Hermann H. Kurzweg, Fritz Mueller, Willy Mrazek, Erich W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, Eberhard Rees, Gerhard Reisig, Georg Rickhey, Werner Rosinski, Ludwig Roth, Arthur Rudolph, Harry Ruppe, August Schulze, Walter Schwidetzky, Ernst Stuhlinger, Bernhard Tessmann, Adolf Thiel, Wernher von Braun, Albert Zeiler, Theodor Karl, Otto Vowe Georg von Tiesenhausen.

What makes you think I implied kidnap? They escaped just like you said to the US. The US gave them a helping hand though. Many of those men could have been tried but were not because they were needed by the US.

Take a look at the case of central figure Wernher von Braun. A former SS officer who ended up director of the United States Marshall Space Flight center. He spearheaded the Saturn V booster rocket that put your countrymen on the moon.

Why don't you look up Operation Paperclip. Once a project your government kept secret but these days you can read all about it. Knowledge is power.

Let's get this thread back on track...


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Well, would you rather they were working for the Soviets?

Well and truley rattled. You put up a lovely pedantic front demanding names you didn't think I could give you about information you didn't think I knew of, then the best you can do - the man who complains about others lack of rebuttals - is sidestep it and bring ze Russians into it?

I couldn't care less who would have gotten to the moon first. The Russians put a man in space first before the Germans put an American on the moon. If it were the other way around I doubt I would have felt any differently. It's a pointless comparison.

no dear, i'm not rattled, i'm just too lazy to confirm all that you say. I appreciate yur list, which i doubt you compiled yourself, you obviously cut/pasted it from some one else who actually did the work, but like i said befopre you posted it, i want this thread to get back on track.

Is Patriotism a bad thing?

No, imo.

Are german ex-pats a bad thing (even if they work in our aerospace tech industry)? No, imo.

Can we all just be decent human beings? YES! :)