Dude, we're talking building a space machine to observe objects light years away. 100 years ago, they would pick up trash on horse carriage. 500 years ago, th

Dude, we're talking building a space machine to observe objects light years away. 100 years ago, they would pick up trash on horse carriage. 500 years ago, they'd burn witches if the cows caught a virus in the village. 2000 years ago, Europe didn't write, in most countries... It took 20 years to build this insane machine. Did we truly slow down :D Maybe americans have become biased, but as a French, just launching this thing in a machine that can launch 80 successive and productive payloads in space is a positive sign of progress compared to how far our country was 2000 years ago compared to its peers in Asia and Africa.