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TIL where Elon got his name (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38464735

Today I learned that Wernher von Braun (of Nazi Rocket Scientist infamy) wrote a sci-fi novel about Mars colonisation. In 1971 a South African racist named his son after the book's

cross-posted from: https://trouth.eu/users/Kathrin/statuses/114047987329527365

@todayilearned Today I learned that Wernher von Braun (of Nazi Rocket Scientist infamy) wrote a sci-fi novel about Mars colonisation. In 1971 a South African racist named his son after the book's Martian Leader: Elon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project/_Mars:/_A/_Technical/_Tale#The_%22Elon%22

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[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The world is governed by the United States of Earth, established after a devastating war in the 1970s between the Western Powers and the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states as well as Communist China and its satellites). The West won the conflict with the aid of Lunetta, an orbiting space station that dropped nuclear missiles on the Soviet Union.

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

He was literally writing fanfiction about nuking his irl enemies lmao. Literally me in highschool furiously inserting my IRL beef into a fanfiction where my self-insert is really cool actually and owns them.