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"Many decades away" seems pretty darn close when we're talking about becoming a plausibly-permanently multiplanetary species, and it's exciting, and it should remind us how incredible the difference is between the circumstances under which recent human lives have begun & ended
It absolutely blows my f%#^ing mind that the gap between (a) the Wright brothers' first successful short flights in the first passable airplane ever, and (b) the moon landing(!) was SIXTY-FIVE YEARS.
Obvious question of course, but against that amazing background what would you have predicted in 1969 as being the state of air and space travel another 50 years out?
reusable space crafts?
Shit was wild yo. And that was without computers, less knowledge about material science and the physics was kinda iffy on top. Absolutely incredible what was achieved in so little time.
The DPUs are only going to get shorter
1950-60: jet commercial airliners introduced, upper-middle-class people can afford to fly occasionally. 2015-25: by analogy, reasonably comfortable trips/vacations to the Moon are offered on a "buy a ticket and go" basis, and 5-10% of people can afford to.
the thing that makes me go "oh yeah, that's why" is realizing that it was an arms race between two superpowers:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1084014654156754945 …
Another world war and i can assure you that the remaining 2 humans on earth will have the technology to go live on mars.
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