[–] 5 points 2 months ago

To be fair, the US did use the bomb ruthlessly and some claim unnecessarily. The US also basically menaced the non US-aligned world with their advantage.

My point being the US wasn't better than her ops at the time.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    He jumped from about 128,000ft / 39,000 m. While an extreme altitude, it is very much inside the stratosphere. The prevailing accepted boundary of space is the Karman line which starts at 328,000 ft / 100,000 m and is much, much higher.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    In WWII it's generally agreed that the NAZIs had better, more sophisticated weapons. The US and Soviets just built more which ended up being a winning strategy.

    That's a common myth. Like any other nation, Germany had a couple things they did better and things they were worse at. They never had broad technological supremacy at any point in the war.

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