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Progress has a way of creeping up on you. This list would've contained "heavier than air flight" in the 1700s but look where we are now. Consider that hilarious
by astrodust 9y ago
Progress has a way of creeping up on you. This list would've contained "heavier than air flight" in the 1700s but look where we are now. Consider that hilarious Wright Brothers contraption in 1903 and then the landing on the moon in 1969, a span of only 66 years where everything changed.
- orf 9y agoI think WW1 and WW2 had a great impact on rocketry and aeronautics research specifically though. I mean it's not like it was business as usual and those 66 years where just standard, they had a huge segment of the scientific population focusing on ways to improve those fields, so much much much more progress was made than usual.
- astrodust 9y agoYou say that like such a thing couldn't possibly happen in the future. We're an ill-advised tweet away from yet another military engagement that could drag on for decades. There's also the possibility that the collective world will finally commit to action on climate change and start dumping money into technology, any technology, that could tilt things in our favour. It's astonishing to me that during the Manhattan Project they tried every possible thing, both methods for uranium enrichment, both fundamental types of weapon, explored all possible avenues, and yet today the US can't be arsed to spend a dime on preventing climate change.