RV: Mason & Dixon questions followed by an invective to Modernity

[Thomas Eckhardt]

>In GR Pynchon says (or I
>think he says) that for the sake of $$$ you "forgive" awful crimes, and the
>guy who invented the weapon that was killing your people, the criminal that
>made the missiles, now is a good scientist that makes rockets for us, he is
>Innocent because Science is objetive, clean, innocent, far away from HUMAN
>PASSIONS.

Recently I watched a documentary on Wernher von Braun on TV. In some footage
from around 1943 von Braun tried to convince Hitler to give more support to
the development of the V2 by means of a presentation in Peenemuende, in a
scene shot some years later he could be seen showing John F. Kennedy around
his rocket facility in the US for the same reason. Tells you a lot about the
relationship of science and power, as well as about Wernher von Braun: What
a creepy person.

Thomas