Once it was erect it began it’s 1 mph race to the launch tower.
Not to forget where the players were near the middle of the 18th century, and how they had grown in the following hundred years with civil unrest n who led in the technical revolution.
Move ahead 100 years n the growth made n path taken in Germany and Japan. Remember where Germany was after that first conflict they started, and remember Japan had been just this tiny little island of feudal people who had long worshiped an Emperor n a Shogun n had been busy with an ambitious invasion of China n built amazing air, naval n military forces that Mao eventually did oust with the help of the allies and a secret bomb or two.
We all know how that turned out for US when we elected the military hero to b r presidential leader, and then we elected another hero and we learned to “ask not” and put the first man on our natural satellite. Pretty cool.
Move ahead another hundred years n dern, if we’re not in a whole new millennium, then we’ve elected an actor to lead US, and had two bushes, a man of color, and a man we were amazed was still alive and, well… here we are!
China has managed to become a nation, become an economic powerhouse, put its own Space Station up in space, and we’re bringing back ailing astronauts put the in ISS on foreign launch vehicles n there r still a lot of Chinese, even with a cap on birth
Go figure.
Glad Werner got a lot of his German buddies to come home with Ike’s guys