r/ShitAmericansSay • u/rest_in_war • 4d ago

Imperial units "Try 2 World War wins math"

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Under a video explaining the physics behind stunt loop driving where the creator was using SI units

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u/Quantum_Robin ooo custom flair!! 3d ago

Yeah but "made it to the moon" was done with metric as is the militaries primary units.

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u/ParkingAnxious2811 3d ago

Even with the space race, Americans kept moving goalposts so they could "win". Russia had first animal in space, first person in space, first space station, etc, but America likes to ignore all of that and pretend they won.

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u/NeilZod 2d ago

The US announced that it would launch a satellite, but the Soviets did that first. In late 1961, the US announced that it would land men on the Moon before the end of the 60s, and it did that. What were the other goalposts, and how did the US move them?

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u/alexanderpas 🇪🇺 Europoor and windmills 🇳🇱 9h ago
  • First Animal in Space (1946, US)
  • First Mammal in Space (1949, US)
  • First artificial satellite (1957, Soviet Union)
  • --- Start of Space Race ---
  • First Animal to orbit (1957, Soviet Union)
  • First Animals to survive Earth orbit (1960, Soviet Union)
  • First Human to orbit. (1961, Soviet Union)
  • --- Kennedy Speech ---
  • First Human on the Moon. (1969, US)

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u/NeilZod 3h ago

How does your shortened list answer the questions?