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and jetpacks! Aside from internet, smartphones, smart watches, self-driving cars, electric bikes, solar tech, advanced batteries, amazing mRNA vaccines, what ha
by rswail 6y ago
and jetpacks! Aside from internet, smartphones, smart watches, self-driving cars, electric bikes, solar tech, advanced batteries, amazing mRNA vaccines, what has technology ever done for us? Nothing!
r/unexpectedmontypython
I was a "NASA" kid, was 5 when man landed on the moon, blew off a uni exam to watch the first shuttle landing, still amazed when a Falcon 9 lands on a ship, can hear "1201 alarm, kicking up some dust" and see the grey video and the shadow of the LEM...
But Chuck Yeager making that first "boom" is still the boundary between yesterday and today.
- dotancohen 6y agoI would say that Gagarin's flight was more a boundary beween before and after than was the flight of the X-1.