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It's truly amazing, isn't it.
by technocratius 8y ago
It's truly amazing, isn't it.
- melling 8y agoWell, to be quite honest, I thought we'd be all over the solar system by now. As a kid 40 years ago I was excited when Viking landed on Mars... and the Space Shuttle Enterprise was introduced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggjD3i7efKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggjD3i7efKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40XddxwQMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40XddxwQMs What's really exciting is that people got tired of waiting for the governments of the world and decided to invest in private space ventures.
- alex_duf 8y agoI'd love humanity to be visiting another solar system by now, but even starting a few decades ago we'd probably would have had to violate a few important laws of physics in order to reach another star. Space is big
- overcast 8y agoThere is only one Solar System, ours :) The rest are star systems. It's unfortunate that it took all these years to reignite the passion in space travel though.
- melling 8y agoYes, I was only referring to our solar system. We understood that Andromeda was light years away back in 1976. Forgot to mention that Skylab was still in orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab And Pioneer was heading out into the solar system. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/missions/archive/pioneer.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/missions/archive/pioneer.h... The Russians were sending probes to Venus during that time too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera