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re: 65 Years; 7 Months; 3 Days
Posted on 7/22/19 at 11:32 pm to dallasaggie
Posted on 7/22/19 at 11:32 pm to dallasaggie
All of the money is chasing consumerism. College costs to much to pursue a degree in Astrophysics. Smart people go to college only to build algorithms to trade stocks, or they get an engineering degree only to end up in housing development because that's where the money is or was. Everyone hates government but when it is time to mobilize resources, they are the best at it.
I mean we are kind of at a peak though. What else can we do better other than as humans be more responsible. I mean if you want to travel to other worlds we will have to bend space and time. There is thereotical work on that. The only thing I can think of that we might need is manufacturing earth sized artificial gravity to create an artificial environment for us to thrive long term on a giant spaceship if earth becomes uninhabitable. We'd also need a deflector shield that protects us from gamma radiation
I mean we are kind of at a peak though. What else can we do better other than as humans be more responsible. I mean if you want to travel to other worlds we will have to bend space and time. There is thereotical work on that. The only thing I can think of that we might need is manufacturing earth sized artificial gravity to create an artificial environment for us to thrive long term on a giant spaceship if earth becomes uninhabitable. We'd also need a deflector shield that protects us from gamma radiation
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Posted on 7/23/19 at 12:03 am to yatesdog38
I’m not even sure the atmosphere at NASA can replicate the advances made in the 60’s and 70’s. We put man on the moon by a bunch of 20-something swinging dicks that chain smoked, drank the hard shite and womanized while they were at work. If a good looking woman walked by a group of men she would have smacked on the arse and everyone, including her, would have got a chuckle out of it. Now NASA is overrun by a bunch of sensitivity focused microbrew sipping soy boy cucks.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 12:54 am to MaroonNation
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And during times of peace DARPA just isn’t being pressed to develop a lot of new tech.
So we should be neck deep in technology, considering the 2 obscenely long occupations we're still engaged in.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 2:04 am to MaroonNation
Good post.
Posted on 7/25/19 at 9:01 am to dallasaggie
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To me in many ways that represents an astounding leap in technical knowledge and ability that makes it seem like what we have achieved since almost pale in comparison. It almost seems incomprehensible to me to be able to achieve that in such a short time frame.
Any thoughts on this?
Closest thing I can think of off the top of my head would be computers. Go back 65 years ago...1954 (the year FORTRAN was invented)...the fastest computer would have been the IBM NORC. It ran at 15,000 operations per second. Currently the fastest computer is Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It is capable of running 200 petaflops that means that it runs 200,000,000,000,000,000 floating operations per second.
It is harder to appreciate, because it isn't something that you can see.
Posted on 7/25/19 at 10:17 am to pioneerbasketball
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We never landed on the moon.
The moon landed on us!
Posted on 7/28/19 at 1:34 pm to MaroonNation
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storable amount of anti-matter
Nope.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 7:47 pm to Commander Data
Yep
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Posted on 7/28/19 at 11:30 pm to MaroonNation
The military advancements during WWII and the cold war certainly contributed a lot, but we shouldn't overlook the dramatic advances in aviation for the commercial sector in the 1930's. It was considered an astounding feat when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927; just look at the videos of his aircraft being stormed when he landed at Le Bourget. Less than ten years later, you could walk into any little local airport in the US and buy a commercial ticket to fly across the Pacific Ocean.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 10:41 am to MaroonNation
Storing nanograms of the stuff in a magnetic bubble is useless relative to using it as a fuel. Not to mention the outrageous cost of producing those microscopic amounts of antimatter. We are far from ready to use antimatter as a fuel source.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 8:14 pm to Commander Data
For one Economy, sure. For a global threat of extinction where all countries band together and pool their resources? Not completely out of the question.
Posted on 8/5/19 at 7:12 am to dallasaggie
What is the last time aggy was worth a shite in football??
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