@wonderofscience@mastodon.social
2024-12-23 00:10 UTC
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@Munross@mastodon.scot 2024-12-23 00:21
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social 66 years which included two world wars, the Korean war, many, many colonial wars, and the rise of the industrial defence complex that's a lot of impetus for technological innovation There's a direct line from that second shot back to von Braun's missile research in the 1940s
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@paninodesu@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 00:24
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social This is a wrong comparison to make IMO. You should compare with photos from early rocket enthusiasts.
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@collectifission@greennuclear.online 2024-12-23 00:49
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Yet, I doubt we'll hit the moon again before 2035 (the next 66 years). Call me pleasantly surprised if we do.
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social 2024-12-23 00:59
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social That is not just our science, but our capacity to creat, assemble and build. The above is just as true for our society, _poverty is now fake, a _construct, built _around people. It _costs EXTRA to maintain poverty.
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@egoldblatt@gardenstate.social 2024-12-23 01:13
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Amazing to think about in relation to the lack of exploration since.
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@Gorfram@beige.party 2024-12-23 01:49
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social You mean the first manned flight/Wright Flyer thing at Kitty Hawk was faked, too? /s/ *wait, are all the airplanes fake? **tell me quick, before I have to put away my laptop to prepare for landing
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@DrJay@mastodon.energy 2024-12-23 02:21
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social I remember watching the Apollo 11 moonwalk with my grandmother in her house and realizing she had lived through the entire age of human flight. That blew me away, and it still does.
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@edwardchampion@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 02:56
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social So does that mean we get flying cars and teleportation by 2035?
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@rouxdoo@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 03:36
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Ummm, you mathed wrong - it was 53 years apart and we are now that far along from the second now as the first was from the second. All we have to show for it is the iPhone. Our early promise has rewarded us with good stuff - no doubt, but the scope of human progress since the moon landing is a tepid cup of tea at best by comparison.
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@tschet@fosstodon.org 2024-12-23 03:40
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social mind blowing isn’t it?
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@depereo@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 03:46
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social 66 years after the moon landing we won't have a single glacier left :/
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@GoatRoper@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 03:58
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Amazing! I watched it on TV with my grandfather who was born in 1890, the horse and buggy days.
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@iju@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 04:10
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social I'm using this to point out that Wrights didn't just pop out from the sea, but that they stood on the shoulders of others. The missing piece was their skill as bicycle manufacturers to bring the weight of the components down. There are stories of unthethered flight before Caley, but as the saying goes: inventor is the one who invents something last (eg. writes their method down and demonstrates use worth copying the method), not the one doing something first. #History
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@antdude@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 05:30
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social and 2024?
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@ketan1905@mastodon.world 2024-12-23 05:45
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Wow, what an incredible testament to human ingenuity and progress! It's mind-blowing to think that in just 66 years, we went from taking to the skies for the first time to setting foot on the moon. This truly shows the power of innovation, determination, and dreaming big. Imagine what the next 66 years could bring!" 🌍✈️🚀🌙
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@Christiansurrey@toot.kif.rocks 2024-12-23 06:48
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Thats quite a lovely perspective on mankind. Dr. Who would appriciate.
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@codebyjeff@hachyderm.io 2024-12-23 09:19
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social amazing what you can accomplish when 50% of the people haven't decided to worry about whether or not going to the moon is "woke"
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@leshy_and_his_oak@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 09:31
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social This reminds of something that's been on my mind lately. During this period of rapid development of aerospace tech we believed that we'd have colonies on Mars in years. Yer shortly after the progress seemingly stalled. Problems have become more difficult. In the recent decades we've seen similar progress, but with information tech. And it is obvious that the growth we've seen is over. All the easy problems have been solved. And the recent crypto and AI bubbles are just copium.
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@xucaen@mastodon.world 2024-12-23 10:30
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social it's as if we're still climbing out of the dark ages
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@thomas_klopf@dobbs.town 2024-12-23 10:53
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social well the 2nd one was taken in a film studio, not sure why it’s a big deal
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@rejzor@mastodon.world 2024-12-23 11:05
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social And almost same period from moon landing to now and we can't really go to moon again today.
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@monicaragland@mastodon.social 2024-12-23 16:01
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social hello
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@Galley@mastodon.online 2024-12-23 21:40
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space The gentleman in the bottom photo is the most famous person I have ever met, or ever will meet. 😄
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@TheBogusJuanKanobie@mastodon.social 2024-12-24 12:58
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social Yikes what's next
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@capnthommo@c.im 2024-12-24 23:23
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social quite amazing isn't it. Was it Neil Armstrong's father who saw the Wright brothers fly and later saw his son walk on the moon?
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@spaceflight@spacey.space 2025-02-27 13:38
@wonderofscience@mastodon.social these videos are separated by 7 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ