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thenewgreen  ·  3688 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Time travellers: please don’t kill Hitler

Its mentioned in the piece:

    Say whoever replaced him was ineffectual and the war ended with reduced loss of life and destruction. In this timeline, maybe no German rocket scientists ended up in the US. The space programme loses some of its best minds, and happens more slowly (or not at all?) The space race resulted in a breath-taking amount of scientific advancement and spinoff technology,