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> I loved Pop Sci growing up, but in hindsight I felt like the content was already on the decline by the early 2000s. That, or it was never that great and I was
by gumby 3y ago
> I loved Pop Sci growing up, but in hindsight I felt like the content was already on the decline by the early 2000s. That, or it was never that great and I was just getting more aware as I got older.
I remember realizing it was mostly bull and weak articles when I was about 13…around 1977. Didn’t stop me from reading it but I felt it was more SF speculation from some current science news rather than actual science. That was OK.
- mauvehaus 3y agoTurns out sci-fi speculation is more marketable than sci-reality. I still remember thinking how cool it would be if the Lockheed Venturestar came to fruition. Like, Wow! Would that have been cool or what? Maybe it's ok that it's a lot of speculative stuff after all? Maybe there's something to be said for reading about the wild-ass ventures that are high-risk and high reward. Incremental progress gets you a long ways, but the occasional moonshot can really move the needle. Watching the two Falcon Heavy boosters land simultaneously was the kind of thing you feel like you'd have read about 10 years previously in Popular Science
- jhbadger 3y agoI seem to remember most all the articles about how airships are on the verge of becoming practical again -- in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s... Don't get me wrong, I think airships are neat, it's just after seeing this promise unfulfilled so many times, I just doubt that it will happen.
- Xcelerate 3y ago> just after seeing this promise unfulfilled so many times, I just doubt that it will happen. Well buckle up: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/worlds-largest-aircraft-18483524.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/worlds-largest-a...
- jhbadger 3y agoNeat. Hopefully they won't go bust right away like all the rest. This sort of article was exactly what was printed decade after decade -- company X has an airship prototype and will test it shortly but either they never get one aloft, or it gets damaged in a storm and they run out of funding to build another.
- jboy55 3y agoI bought some from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Each magazine was 300 pages of Radio or TV repairman training courses, and a dozen pages with some fluff about the 'future' or advertisement article about a new tool.