Angus Fletcher
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2,582 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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And so we don't need a lot of missiles because even just with one missile, we can put it anywhere.
And so I said, oh yeah, that's a good idea.
Well, how do we prove that?
How do we prove that?
When they sat around, they thought a little bit more.
They said, well, what is the most incredible place you could put a missile that would show the Soviets that we could literally put a missile anywhere?
And they said, the moon.
And now it's the birth of the space program.
And they said, you know what?
If we build a missile that goes to the moon, what that shows the Soviets is that we have the best missile technology.
And so actually this tremendous act of science and exploration and hope and discovery ended up being the thing that ended the arms race.
But it was paradoxical.
Powered initially from that conflict and so really what that tells you on some core level is Not that the world started out at peace and we've created war but the world started out at war and then you create peace and you create peace by figuring out the way to win the war without fighting the war and I think
On the space program, to me, I mean, I've always, when I look at the magic of the Apollo program, and the spaceship itself is so bizarre.
It flies up into space and then it ejects part of itself, which like turns around and then flies backwards to the moon and then like drops a pod on the moon that then stays there, but ejects a tiny capsule that goes back up to this thing that's circling the moon.
It's like so bonkers, but beautiful.
Seems impossible.
It seems impossible.
It's certainly improbable.
What do you know about PSYOPs?
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