Who was Wernher von Braun?
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Wernher von Braun is one of the central figures in spaceflight's early history, so it's worth having a sense of who he was.
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My favorite Wernher von Braun quote, "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."
My favorite quote is on his tombstone.
Psalm 19:1
Hermann Oberth, the German/Romanian rocket scientist responsible for inspiring Von Braun, published a book in 1923 that explained how space travel is achievable in theory mathematically. Oberth's theoretical work galvanized the German public, which subsequently spurred significant advances in the field of rocketry.
Germans may be a sick bunch, but they are certainly capable of greatness.
Correct Jeff. The book was named "Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen" (1923) "The rocket to the planetary spaces"
or maybe the enhanced version named "Wege zur Raumschiffahrt" (1929) "Ways to space travel".
I hava a facsimile of the 1923 version with the original autograph of Hermann Oberth.
His book was called 'I aimed for the stars', unfortunately he kept hitting London.
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department, says Wherner Von Braun.
Oh, stop it! ....His rockets stopped hitting London when he changed employers, right?
He wanted to send rockets and people to the stars. But when you work the military, yes will use rockets to kill other people. He needed the funding and learned, and knew the war would end and that the rockets would soon be pointing to the stars, and not people at earth. Blame the military for what they did wrong.
"'When ze rockets go up,
Who cares where zey come down?
Zat's not my department,'
Says Wernher Von Braun."
- Tom Lehrer
And-hopefully-some Jews.
Huntsville, Alabama basically owes it's wealth to this man. It's called "rocket city" for a reason
It's a shame he didn't complete his "Amerika rocket" and the atomic bomb to put on the top of it.
The widows and cripples of old London town also owe their large pensions on Dr. Werner von Braun
@@dellawrence4323 obviously you are a child or just simply uneducated, no worries son but FYI there are many countries possibly yours as well that depend on welfare from America for their survival. You might learn this when you hit grade 4 depending what country you live in
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He was a Nazi he was evil. I live in Huntsville Alabama and I know that his work brought money & opportunities to this area but he wasn't a good man. He came to America only for self preservation.
@@kid.hudson_ Tom Lehrer?
The V-2 rocket of Wernher von Braun and his team, was the first long range ballistic missile.Wernher von Braun was also the chief designer of the Saturn-V rocket, who brought the first humans to the moon.
He is probably the greatest rocket scientist in history.
Also was a nazi supporting the reich until surrender to the west and the US took him in with immunity to work for us at NASA
@@myron8676 We all know that ! He is still a great man and was Chief of NASA !
I wonder what you would have done in the 3rd Reich ?
Greetings from Australia
@@rl7586 I would have taken a bullet instead of working for these fucking nazis.
@@madera648 Easy to say from your keyboard...
@@robertsrt ok lol
I have read comments on other sites that state Wernher von Braun "was a member of the Nazi party." That is false. When I met him in Malibu, CA in 1971-72, as part of Pepperdine's program of bringing well-known personalities to the campus, the question was asked, "Were you ever a Nazi? Did you ever join Hitler's party?" to which von Braun responded, "No. Emphatically no. I was repeatedly urged to join, but because of Hitler's eagerness to have the rocket science knowledge, they left me alone to do my work. I avoided becoming a Nazi." I believed him. He was a very charismatic figure. Quite good-looking even as he aged. I was pleased to have met him.
Von Braun WAS one of Hitler's SS military officials!! Apparently you need to read more. He was and died a NAZI. He cared little for life, except his own. I am a descendent of Germans but I do NOT identify with NAZIS!!
@@pegdavis10 did you talk to Werner, no? Did you read all his statements after been captured by the Americans no? Ahh...
Eduardo Breton Did you check out sources that looked at witnesses and evidence from before he switched sides? Of cause he had to loudly denounce the party once he started climbing the ranks in the US.
I don't know if it classifies as 'vintage' space but I always loved the story of Homer Hickam and his involvement in the space program.
Homer Hickam was a war criminal
Tom Lehrer:
Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun
Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun
You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese now!" says Wernher von Braun
I love the vintage, Vintage Space episodes like this!
my uncle JV worked with him and others on the project Apollo. on the 6th anniversary of nasa they awarded JV and got a cool pic with VB and Scott cooper and Frank Borman. cool stuff.
James Johnson that is soooo cool! What a project to be apart of! Super jealous
James Johnson Borman?
My grandfather is Leonard Bostwick. They worked together on the Saturn V and were good friends.
He's a morally squalid figure, and America's expediency based willingness to overlook that is equally as unpleasant.
@@The_Reality_Filter Thanks
History won't care, and neither do I.
If you don't know....he was imprisoned by the SS in 1942, because he was against their mentality .
So, stop talking shit about him. Nobody is perfect in this world, and he wasn't proud of what his country did back in
the WWII .
So he built missiles that killed many and worked slave labour to death. Oh, poor little Von Braun. I can quite sympathise with him.
Tom Corbett At least he didn't put a " little boy " on his enormous, one of a kind, work of art rocket and target a place on earth, rather he put 3 men on top of it and launched them in space to go to the moon and back safely!
Sairous, Untrue. He was a pawn in a power struggle between Himmler and non-SS industrialists. Himmler was showing them who was boss. von Braun saw conditions of slave laborers daily for years.
he worked for the army, building weapons. As do and did countless scientiest in the Us, UK, Russia and and and.... They don't care for consequences. Only vonBrauns Army and gouvernment turned into something even more horrible then the other ones. Having said that, it wasn't the SS who dropped two nuclear bombs on cities with civilians, burning 200000+ man, woman and children.
If you blame him for it, blame all of them. He didn't oppose Hitler or the Nazis. That's plain bullshit. He just didn't care. But don't let the scientists on "the right side" of the hook. Think how many people Oppenheimer killed. Von Brauns achievements will forever be flawed by that history. And rightfully so.
Yeah, and those 'civilian' cities were in fact military bases. Leave your whataboutism tales for other brainless people like yourself
He was the real rocket man
Your vids are refreshingly science based! I'd almost forgot that the US used to rely on science to some extent.
Thanks. Your on a good trajectory.
Please talk about Robert Hutchings Goddard! He was the father of rocket science, had the theory down before von Braun was even born. He patented the multi-stage rocket and a liquid-fuel rocket back at 1914.
His 1919 monograph A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science. Goddard successfully applied three-axis control, gyroscopes and steerable thrust to rockets, to effectively control their flight.
Although his work in the field was revolutionary, Goddard received very little public support for his research and development work. The press sometimes ridiculed his theories of spaceflight. As a result, he became protective of his privacy and his work.
ps: Also he wasn't a nazi or a war criminal, so there's that.
The father of rocket technology was peruvian scientist Pedro Paulet, he made the first modern rocket in 1900 and Von Braun in his biography recognized him as the true father of this new technology due he based his projects in the work and first liquid fuel motor made by the peruvian guy, sorry Demetrio the real father was a cholo not a jerry guy.
YOCARAJO100 You could consider Pedro one of the fathers of rocketry, but not the real father (if such thing exists)
Pedro Paulet was the first person to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine.
Goddard was the first person to build a rocket. Multiple stages, liquid-fuel rocket engine, three-axis controls, gyroscopes and steerable thrust. All in one thing, that flew.
Ron Lovell Let's get clear now, you saying that he should have been executed for his crimes means you think he had any power to change anything about the slave labour? Or he should had been executed just for being member of nazi party? You know in 1945 nazi party had 8.5 millions germans as members, a lot of people to exucute don't you think so? If you know anything about his actions that lead to the slave labour and deaths of those people please tell and please provide any source for me to check on that. I think we should be reasonable even when talking about nazi members, as not all of them were mass murderers or jew haters. Some saw other opportunities in a party that was supported the most in free elections that nazi party won. I have to admit i'm a bit biased because i really respect Wernher von Braun as an engineer, one of the best of 20 century i have to say. Still i think i'm being reasonable in my assumptions as i don't see any evidence that von Braun had any direct involvment in the slave labour. He was working in a base near baltic sea and the slave labour camp was in central germany so he certainly didn't have any command in the slave labour camp.
Ron Lovell I think we both agree that a person can be sentenced when a person is proven guilty. So this seems a bit harsh of sentencing a man to death without proof of him doing anything at mass murder level. Your supposed proof is that Von Braun was the boss of engineers that built the v2 rocket, but i'm telling you once again he wasn't the commander of the slave work camp witch was far away from where Von Braun himself worked. Being a nazi doesn't equal a mass murderer in my case too. You can be called mass murderer if you murder or give orders or have ability to change others that are doing this. Do you know that Von Braun had any authority in the slave work camp? please share. Please provide more then just your usual "he was in nazi party and he worked as chief engineer in program that used slave labor".
Ron Lovell Damn, your a sore looser. How can anyone with a brain interpret my saying "not all nazi's were mass murderers" as "genocide never happened". Think before writing such nonsense.
I've worked with a few people that have worked with Porsche and its kinda the same deal. Sadly its either do the work or be killed, then they find someone else to do the job.
As I said, I will take his own word that he never joined the Nazi party over any efforts to state otherwise. The Germans needed his expertise and let it pass that he didn’t join the Nazi party, and at his first opportunity, he came to the US and assisted us in our rocket program. We might rather be grateful instead of smearing his name after he is deceased and cannot any longer defend himself.
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I remember Wernher von Braun used to come for dinner when I was a child in Huntsville. My Dad worked with him at Redstone's Marshall Center.
Are you serious? If so, do you remember how he was personality wise?
@@charrhunter3945 Yes, and he was a very nice man. He used to entertain my brothers and I while dinner was being cooked. LOL, we loved to hear him talk. He got us tours to many sites as well including a nuclear enrichment center just being built. It was a long way from Huntsville. I doubt nuclear plants and enrichment centers were allowed to have visitors after the fissionable materials arrived so this was very special. We got to see the missiles too. Lot of mystery when Daddy was working at the space center. That is the truth. I didn't even realize it until I was an adult.
Wernher Von Braun 😎
The father of Saturn V
The Best of German Engineering
Made In Germany
Thanks for making this video. I knew a little about Wernher von Braun (namely the V2, Jupiter and Saturn rockets), but it's always nice to learn more. :)
He’s my grandfather
NaSSa is great I love the early work
Once the rockets are up / who cares where they come down? / That's not my department / says Wernher von Braun. (-- Tom Lehrer).
"Say not that he's hypocritical. Say rather that he's apolitical.! Nazi, schmazi, says Werner Von Braun!" Thanks, Tom.
Wernher von Braun built the Saturn V rocket that shot men to the moon. All Tom Lehrer ever did was pound on a piano and shoot his mouth off.
Brian Arbenz In Englisch oder German I know how to count down, I'm learning Chinese says Werner von Braun.
Cool.
@@josephcope7637 - admittedly, Tom Lehrer didn't put as many people on the moon as Wernher von Braun, and he didn't look quite as snappy in an SS uniform either.
Robert. F. Kennedy: We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...
Wernher von Braun: We have been given the scientific knowledge, the technical ability, and the materials to pursue the exploration of the Universe. To ignore these great resources would be a corruption of a GOD given ability.
All this hate towards Von Braun....if you think that was bad look up Unit 731 and the US' involvement.
"Once the rockets go up who cares where they come down? That's not my department", says Wehrner von Braun!
It's sad that he had an amazing vision of us already on the moon and even Mars. And we currently have no base on the moon. We have none on Mars :(
You left out the fact that he was arrested by the Gestapo
Yes. He and his Team, including his younger Brother wanted to flee to England and work for Churchill. But his Plan was uncovered by the Gestapo. Some higher Nazis wanted to kill him for ,,Wehrkraftzersetzung‘‘ but his military supiriors, like Walther Dornberger pleaded for Clemency.
If he would have been shot by the Nazis, we would have never reached the Moon.
Correct.
He tried to escape to Great Britain and run over to the Allies.
If you are to be a historian,You must always tell the truth no matter how ugly it may be. Otherwise you are only a propagandist and assume the same responsibility for the nastiness you cover up by not talking about it. It would have been OK to say "thousands of slave laborers were killed building V-2 rockets which were used to attack civilians in England and Belgium". And that good old Von Braun was OK with that. As an SS officer he even received awards from Adolph himself for his work. He did not ever have a broken arm, the cast was fake so that the US Army would go easy on him when he turned himself in. He sent his brother Magnus out to find an American detail to bargain with. Magnus found a Sargent and his men out on patrol. This Von Braun guy was an asshole of the largest proportions. And totally full of shit. He did not build or even design the Saturn V he and his team of nearly one hundred mostly Canadian (did you read that? Canadian) engineers left over from the Avro Arrow project conceived and designed the V. Then it was built by 39,000 common Joe's with their own hands working for hundreds of contractors. Every time I hear something that glorifies that Von Jerk Off I just want to puke. Keep up the good work Amy.
Werhner Von Braun , chrono visor. He helped padre pelligre with it. Before being paperclipped in to the USA , this man was or is a genius !
My nextdoor neighbor, little 90yo lady that goes by the name Ms.Dimples, was married to his protege, Harry Johnstone. He himself was also a genius. I believe to this day he is the youngest Army flight instructor doing so at 19 years old. His sons are also very successful, being international commercial pilots. Dimples shared many stories about this German. Speaks very highly of him but said Americans rejected him. Saying him and his wife lived a very lonely life in the mountains.
Not all Americans rejected him. My Dad would bring him home for dinner when I was a child. My Dad worked with him at Marshall and another place I don't remember.
@@WNT2BLV I doubt von Braun killed anyone. War is war. Stop being so naive.
A good Man who became blind due to his great Ambitions. But he was a great genius, who learned from his mistakes during WW2 and became a religous man and a good Christ.
For me he is still a hero.
hes my grand- uncle
Obligatory xkcd: "If you want something done right, learning from the Nazis isn't enough, you have to actually put them in charge."
xkcd.com/984/
"technical genius guilty of war crimes"
The UnMuseum - The Missing Chronovisor www.unmuseum.org/chronovisor.htm What Father Ernetti was describing to Brune, the chronovisor, was a type of ... Wernher von Braun was a part of the chronovisor team, Father Ernetti told Brune.
Yes, I noticed the Von Braun book Easter egg you snuck in the background :)
Who was Wernher von Braun? A Nazi scientist who used concentration camp slave labor to build the V2 for Hitler before the US figured expediency trumped decency. His bud Hebertus Strughold, the Father of Aviation Medicine, performed his experiments on concentration camp prisoners--including killing men by exposing them to extreme cold for extended periods of time before coming to the US in 1947 and thus being saved from an indictment in the Nuremberg Nazi trials, where 15 of his peers were found guilty, 3 executed for their atrocities.
Great men are very rarely good men.
Why is he not good
@@swaggakid00010 he was a nazi if he would be alive today he would be in prisom for crimes against humanity
@@antegotovina1283 what crimes against humanity?
Von Braun and Disney would sixty nine each other.
Both are evil & support Nazi Germany
Verner von Browne was a nazi rocket scientist Who worked 13000 prisoners to death at peenem mundo And nordhausen, That being said to the best my knowledge While in the United States He was a decent Law abiding human being. I think I was Once taught that he actually spoke out against segregation in Huntsville In small groups of people he knew. Question, Do you have any knowledge on Whether Verner von Braun Gave any opinion On segregation in South ? As for the nazi rocket scientist comment, I have to remind myself that he had a Dark past. Why?, Because I think the Saturn 5 fully fueled rocket lifting off from the pad is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. No not in person I aint that old, I had a 3 disc set of 11,12 And a 5 disc set Of 15. Each lift off you can watch from 6 different angles.
P. S. Apologise for any spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization, and for not using Roman numerals.
Ah! Von Braun! Our Alien's embassador!
Could you please do a video on the last flight to the Mir? (The private one to save it) Thanks!
I love your work!!
Von Braun was a Nazi and SS Officer who used this leverage towards his own ends. Was he wrong? Did he use slave labor to achieve his ends? Yes. However, without his vision, drive and expertise, we would not have achieved what we did when we did. It's likely the Russians would have executed him because he was a Nazi and SS Officer.
Robert S. McNamara once said: "Sometimes you may have to engage in evil in order to do good." This is one of those times, and while I don't condone this, it bears mentioning. I appreciate Amy for showing him with the Nazis and telling this even on a benign scale. History and the truth isn't nice or pretty, but it is the truth and history.
Actually the Russians did get their hands on some German rocket engineers and they put them to work on their space program.
That's hardly punishment. Von Braun was a terrorist, genocidal killer and war criminal. By any standard that leaves sentimentality out.
You failed to mention that he received his information through the Thule society - who were mediums to the underworld
Psalms 19:1 ("The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.") - See Von Braun's epitaph on his tombstone. He was conquered by the Firmament.
The Elon Musk of the 20th Century!! 🇺🇸
Yer purdy, oh and thanks for the info!
His headstone tells the story of apollo. He confesses from the grave what he dared not say in life.
Taking the American public along for the ride! Well said.
Hi dear Amy, great videos and I love the content here. Would you mind to tell me who wrote the book Von Braun I see in left corner (the white thick book). thank you Tom
The Rocket was called Aggregat 4 (A-4), only later the propaganda ministry called it V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2/ vengeance weapon 2)
Good teacher 🐱
My gosh. Slug says "7 years ago" for this video. Amy looks and sounds like a teenager here! If date correct she was appx 27 years of age. Wow!
The legend .the mad scientist the rocket man
Genius but war criminal!
Dr. Strangelove
Loving the longer video! :)
looks like james brown in the picture.
Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down thats not my department
Look up his gravestone everyone LOL
Flat earth quote
you forgot about his warcrimes,
It's at the 1:20 mark, or is your attention span so short you didn't get that far?
Great Vid!
Please talk about Pedro Paulet.
I do admire the man for his genius and how he enabled the Apollo programme but seriously he should have been on trial for war crimes for all the people he killed and the people who's life he made an absolute misery.
Playst Steve And the people who decided to bomb Dresde too, but those won the war.
@@felixbachiller3550 You cant say that when germany also bombed London
So what do you guys think of the quote he left on his tombstone.. Was it a confession?
Yes indeed it was !! He knew earth is a closed system
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
I don't see the confession, what do you think he is confessing?
Just a little thing: Junkers is pronounced "YUNK-ers." Also, the letter W in German makes a V sound and the letter V makes an F sound.
+CountArtha You beat me to it. Yes, Wernher's name is properly pronounced "Vernher."
Do you ever watch your old videos?
Von Braun not Von Brown
Wernher von Braun did not join the "Wecheinwechamschwaut" I'm a german an I didnt understand anything meant to be german
Hey Disney can we get some of these rings these diamond ones from QVC QBC and also she got that from the Indian boy . CBS7
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Cool.
Werner Von Braun was related to Doc Emmett Brown. :-D
No he was related to Hitler Nazi Party of the NSDAP in 30' XXa he war german WW2 criminals and should be executed the moment they joined club. He contributed to the deaths of many thousands of people with his V2 rockets and even more of his concentration camp workers who were starving !!
Did you don't learn this in school or what?! But yes this NAZI background for NASA history was silenced by the Americans and Germans because there is nothing to brag about.
But more fitting NASA acronym are: Nazis Aeronautics Space Administration.
Be aware of what America is so proud of that allowed the Nazis to build them a rocket for the moon. LOL
I appreciate some of what this video had to say but it just leaves so many unanswered questions. I feel that he has to be viewed as a Nazi unless proven otherwise.
Well then, do some research. It's very easy these days with the internet and all.
A nazi he was indeed! Fact!
@@judeduverger3289 What is your evidence? Not all Americans alive between 2016 and 2020 were Trump supporters.
Amazing video!
Germans know how to make a bomb.
It's pronounced Verner. W is a double V in Deutsche. Shalom.
Weren't his rockets a modified copy of Goddard's?
Not quite. Goddard preferred "waterski" scheme (fuel and oxi tanks set behind the engine), while von Braun used more classic scheme (fuel and oxi tanks set before the engine). However, the engine is likely to be based on Goddard's work, but it's only natural in how the tech development goes. The same thing was with planes, cars, ships and so on...
The Elon Musk of the 20th Century. The Father of NASA.
There are people who will happilly tell you that the V2 program wasn't primarily a Nazi idea (which is true, since von Braun's group of hobbyists received funding from the German army since before Hitler even took power, ans the SS only came in realtively late in the war), that von Braun wasn't really a Nazi since he didn't internalize their ideology (which is also true) and thus he is without fault. Fuck that.
He was something much worse than a Nazi. He was an opportunist of the worst kind. Of the kind who is willing to step on people and even accept their DEATH to further his own goals. I'm not even talking about the dead and crippled in London and other cities his rockets laid to waste. No, civilian casualities were pretty much a sad reality of the war, and if you were going to fault him for that, every single bomber pilot needs to be considered a war criminal. What I'm talking about is the fact that not only did he join the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and the FUCKING SS (!!!) to get what he wanted from the powers that be, no, he actively used slave labor and was willing to accept that the engines for his "superweapon" were assembled by starving, mistreaded concentration camp inmates. And no, they didn't just do a little work on the side vor his project, internment camps and factories where built specifically for the V2 program, and he knew all too well what was going on. Hundreds of people died thousands suffered unspeakable atrocities, while von Braun continued to kiss Himmlers ass, despite knowing that Nazi ideology was bullshit.
Unquestionably a technical genius and a pioneer of space exploration. His qualities as an engineer are beyond any doubt. As for his character... well... fuck him with a cactus!
gesamtszenario So what! You can't change history. Von Braun had his death sentence, he died of cancer in june 1977
WERE BORN VERNER VON BRAAUN
Peter Sellers was better.
Von Braun believed in God!
He was also a Nazi who murdered his slave labor! So what was the use of his belief in God!?
@Tony Maurice : Hitler was a Catholic who also believed in God! So what!! You can delete my comments all you want: doesn't change the fact that he was a card carrying Nazi who murdered his slave labour. ...no one "forced" him to do that! !!
@Tony Maurice he was a Nazi! Fact!
@@miel1074 Exactly! He was aNazi. F-A-C-T!
Should have been put on trial after the war,as a war criminal
Check out Amy on fb. Wow!!!
W reads V
It's not hard..
The Joe Rogan podcast brought me here. According to that show this guy was a full blown nazi war criminal who used too hang the 5 slowest working Jews outside his rocket factory as a warning and,reminder what would happen too the other Jewish workers if they didn't work fast enough. Sounds like a great guy holy shit.......
His name not Brown.
J N S It literally is.
a war criminal
He was a great man. The fact that some people are envious haters of his achievements is a clear sign of their own personality flaws.
you gotta realize, an engineer and inventor doesn't care what people do with his invention. they just want to make it a reality. sure his rockets killed people, but that's just a side affect of his genius designs
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War criminal
He wasn't a war criminal you simpleton.
But... But... Mah 3 black women saving NASA and building the rockets!
Its pronounced Verner won Braun....
Look at his tombstone
The Earth is flat.
Psalms 19:1
He knew the truth and fed everyone else bullshit
@@wisegal88 He did. Cabal member.
@@user-kb4lh4cv5r the ice wall ( the ends of the earth) is what holds everything in. Water must be contained and always seeks level.
You might want to read it. That is not what Psalms 19.1 says.
@@annabellelee4535 You might want to start paying close attention Annabelle. Read between the lines. It becomes obvious. Troll?
Not von, fon, in german v=f