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@todayilearned Today I learned that Wernher von Braun (of Nazi Rocket Scientist infamy) wrote a sci-fi novel about Mars colonisation. In 1971 a South African racist named his son after the book's Martian Leader: Elon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale#The_%22Elon%22

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

his dad being a fervent nazi certainly didn't help