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> It is pretty wild when you think about it - not so long ago (10 years maybe?) this sort of thing would have been unthinkable. 10 years ago many people though
by mkl 5y ago
> It is pretty wild when you think about it - not so long ago (10 years maybe?) this sort of thing would have been unthinkable.
10 years ago many people thought it would happen well before 2021. The "first operational Dragon spacecraft was launched in December 2010" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX) and commercial flights to the ISS were right around the corner (cargo first happened May 2012).
- tellersid 5y agoI remember going to Disney Epcot Center as a kid and it showed how we would be living on the ocean floor by the year 2000. That is what I consider wild. If you told me as a kid that I will go my whole life without owning a robot and that the main difference is we will replace a rotary phone with a hand held phone I would want my money back. I guess poor Christa McAuliffe has been totally forgot about also.
- iso1631 5y agoIf you told my kids not only will they own a robot, their grandmother actually owns one, they wouldn't believe you. Just before they tripped over her roomba.
- pc86 5y ago> I guess poor Christa McAuliffe has been totally forgot about also. Wasn't that a government flight aboard a government spacecraft that notably didn't make it to space? Not sure how that's related to a civilian flight aboard a civilian spacecraft.
- hwc 5y agoI have two robots in my house that sweep & mop the floor.
- mycall 5y agoYou can still live the dream :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc8hFLyWDOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc8hFLyWDOM