sucius1@lemdro.id to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 3 days agoWhen Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket finally deliveredarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 days agoHere’s French wikipedia calling the mythological figure “Ariane” with no D https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(mythologie) “Aryan” in French is “aryenne”, it has a different vowel France had plenty of pre-WWII rocket scientists, like: Yves Le Prieur, who developed anti-balloon rockets in WWI Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who pioneered the use of joystick controls and founded an award for advances in space travel Louis Damblanc, who built the first ever multi-stage rocket What France did not have was a counterpart to Operation Paperclip like Britain and the Soviet Union did And lastly, the guy that picked the name was a devoted supporter of Charles de Gaulle This criticism does not hold up any scrutiny whatsoever
Here’s French wikipedia calling the mythological figure “Ariane” with no D https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(mythologie)
“Aryan” in French is “aryenne”, it has a different vowel
France had plenty of pre-WWII rocket scientists, like:
What France did not have was a counterpart to Operation Paperclip like Britain and the Soviet Union did
And lastly, the guy that picked the name was a devoted supporter of Charles de Gaulle
This criticism does not hold up any scrutiny whatsoever