Tim Dodd

game over and that's what the us did they they needed that you know we felt like we needed that power to be able to have because we had to fly a nuclear bomb two nuclear bombs over to japan right you know we had to fly in airspace they could have been intercepted and shot down and

knows that history putting that on a rocket that was unshootable downable and undetectable until it's literally oh crap done you know so that's kind of what the the whole thing started was just purely as a as an arms race yes yes and then we had uh jean von neumann who like one of the most genius mathematical minds in history was used to calculate the exact altitude

Yeah, dark.

That's the Cold War.

Really, really, really dark.

Yeah, really sad.

I mean, that's the part, like, I mean, to be completely frank, I rarely do think about that kind of stuff because I'm in love with the exploration side of things.

I'm in love with...

with humans going and exploring.

And I really do think it's a uniting thing.

I really do think even when I see, you know, China right now is pushing to get to the moon by 19 by 2030, like that's their that's their landing target right now is 2030.

China's going to have humans on the moon.

I love that.

Let's go, let's get, let's do it.

Let's get a new race going.

This is exciting.

This is tangible stuff.

And so, I don't know, I focus on that stuff.

And I did, before I forget too, before we totally move off of the Von Braun, that video from 1955 and other things.

The other one that is quoted a lot was that book that he wrote.