SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, which is considered the most advanced space organization in the world and just a few years ago mastered the landing of rocket stages in almost 300 landings, which was considered impossible, went one better today. … Continue reading About “Catching Rocket” OR The Lack of Enthusiasm and Vision in Germany
A terrorist attack against the power supply for the Tesla factory paralyzed production a few weeks ago. Demonstrations and occupations of the planned site caused weeks of commotion before the factory was built. Tesla’s water consumption is also constantly brought … Continue reading Schizophrenic Germany: Lamenting Deindustrialization While Fighting Tesla
A few years ago, I conducted a survey among my newsletter subscribers in which I asked them about their own country’s outstanding technological, economic or scientific successes or failures, or how they viewed the USA and China. The participants had … Continue reading Driving With The Handbrake On
The mood in the country is bad, I have just heard from friends, and there are many reasons why exactly. However, one of the reasons is our success over the last few decades, which has made us overconfident. I notice … Continue reading Deflecting, Lulling and Hysteria – The Strange New German Leitkultur
Recession, Deutsche Bahn, crumbling infrastructure, an automotive industry under massive pressure, supplementary funds in the budget that were cancelled by the Constitutional Court, two wars (almost) on the doorstep, broadband expansion and digitization that have now been abandoned, a Pisa … Continue reading The Mood is Bad – Germany at a Crossroads?
Joe Biden, the 46th American president, like other presidents before him, has had the Oval Office decorated with items that inspired him and are meant to reflect to visitors what principles he stands for. One curious detail, however, made people … Continue reading What’s Your Moon Rock?
If we sit back, close our eyes and think about which technologies or which scientific breakthroughs of recent years came from our country and had great or supra-regional significance, what would we think of? Would these be the same ones that citizens of other countries would enumerate, would they be asked the question about our country?
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Kleptomania or sloppiness seems to unite 180 countries and regions of the world. In any case, if we are to believe the numbers that list the gifts of moon rocks that have since disappeared and cannot be found. With the Apollo 11 and 17 lunar missions, the astronauts brought back dozens of kilograms of moon rocks. Those rocks were not only to be made available to scientists in the USA or disappear behind vault walls, but also to be handed over to other countries.
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