Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?" video.

  1.  @coreysmithsvt  they needed three for all of those fingers and toes.
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  2. It was the space program that made metallurgy a science.
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  3.  @gmcjetpilot  and therein lies the problem. The high priests of aerospace today do not recognize the skills of tradesmen anymore. Back during Apollo if a man could do a job he got the job. He did not need an ivy league degree. 10% of the entire American workforce was involved in Apollo you fucking dickhead. They did not all have fancy degrees either.
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  4. If the Soviets were not so far behind in bomber tech they never would have bothered with rockets in the first place. The B-52 flew two years before Sputnik did. 75 years from now we'll still being that weapons platform too. And it'll remain the best in the world.
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  5. While it is true that you've never been to the Moon 12 brave Americans have been. So in a way with this we shit you're right.
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  6. Yeah maybe we can't build an F-1 today but we sure as hell could outsource it to the far east. So take that!
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  7.  @f.d.6667  the Soviets used more smaller engines. Their craft blew up. That's why they never made it to the Moon but we did.
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  8. We have more Germans than Germany does. We had more in WW2. That's why we won.
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  9. And the high and mighty in aerospace wouldn't give them the time of day.
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