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The Most Dangerous Machine Ever Built ⠀ Standing in front of a rocket, a man breaks down the most powerful machine in human history in under 30 seconds. ⠀ His name was Wernher von Braun. And the two gases that released from his particular version of thermos flask, the one lying behind me, were hydrogen and oxygen. If you release those two gases into a confined space with a hole at the other end of it, and mix them as you do so, and then set light to them, you get that. ⠀ A Saturn V launches. The ground shakes. The fire erupts. Millions of pounds of thrust rip through the atmosphere. ⠀ That’s it. That’s the whole explanation. Two gases. One confined space. One hole. One spark. And you get the most powerful machine ever built by human hands. ⠀ No complex engineering jargon. No equations. No technical breakdown. Just a man standing next to a rocket explaining in plain English that the thing that sent humans to the moon runs on the same basic principle as lighting a match in a tube. ⠀ Hydrogen and oxygen. Two of the most common elements in the universe. One is in the water you drink. The other is in the air you breathe. Apart, they keep you alive. Together, in a confined space with a hole at one end, they create a force powerful enough to escape the earth’s gravity. ⠀ Von Braun figured that out. Then he built a thermos flask the size of a skyscraper, filled it with those two gases, pointed the hole at the ground, and told three men to sit on top of it. ⠀ The lesson is simple. ⠀ The most powerful things in the world aren’t complicated. ⠀ They’re simple ideas executed with terrifying precision. ⠀ Two gases. One spark. And the courage to ride the explosion. Like this content? Follow us for more @money.relation 🔥 #rocket #spaceexploration #invention #spacex #technology