50 years ago we were able to put men on the moon, then nobody's really sure what happened, and now we've regressed to the point that the enemies of civilization can say "harm" and "trauma" and completely subvert literally any progress we're making anywhere.
The whole "We went to the moon a few times using computing power equivalent to an Atari but then it got boring so we stopped decades ago. But we could still totally go back if we wanted to..." thing definitely makes you think.
Computer power equivalent to an Atari, a fuckton of money, and 1960s standards for safety.
I mean, we could do it today, but our truly inspiring politicians (I'd say what they inspire but I'm fairly sure it's not allowed, so we'll settle on "scorn, defiance, slight regard, contempt and anything that might not misbecome me") would much rather take the money themselves, would they not?
USSR was beating us on every level of rocket technology. Then we built the Saturn V, which was better than any rocket ever built by anyone before or since.
Once we used this unbelievable breakthrough a few times, we destroyed every copy in existence, destroyed all the tools used to build them, and burned all the plans describing how to make them.
That really depends on how you define "better", does it not?
The Saturn V's Rocketdyne F-1 main engines were exactly what they were designed to be - honking great rockets that guzzled fuel and threw out noise, light and plenty of thrust. But they were not efficient compared to what is available today.
The Shuttle's RS-25's still put out plenty of power and they offer almost 50% extra specific impulse.
That said, yes, destroying the plans was utterly idiotic.
Soviets lost the space race because their lead engineer, a Ukrainian man with surname Korolyov, died. He died because of injuries he suffered in labour camp (gulag) where he was sent in 1930s for being a counterrevolutionary.
We stopped exploring for no reason, then several decades later decided to spend way more money building a much worse rocket to put a black woman on the moon.
I think, if you watch “famous” old movies from that time (which I’ve been doing quite a bit, lately), this sort of thing was well underway already, among “elites”…
Just look at the literal cuckoldry in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, for instance.
However the difference was that this simply hasn’t reached the cultural “mainstream”, yet…
By the 90s, it pretty much had. And then the internet took over, and it became “the default”.
Now? Now we’re barely allowed to even question it, without being labeled “an enemy of the state”, due for cancelling, etc…
But this “process” has been happening for decades, unfortunately…
If the left had their way, we never would have done it. At the launch of Apollo 11, there were protesters there, making it know that they think the space program should be defunded and the funds redirected to welfare.
50 years ago we were able to put men on the moon, then nobody's really sure what happened, and now we've regressed to the point that the enemies of civilization can say "harm" and "trauma" and completely subvert literally any progress we're making anywhere.
marxists were allowed to operate unchecked.
Still are.
Also we flooded our country with non-whites.
The whole "We went to the moon a few times using computing power equivalent to an Atari but then it got boring so we stopped decades ago. But we could still totally go back if we wanted to..." thing definitely makes you think.
Computer power equivalent to an Atari, a fuckton of money, and 1960s standards for safety.
I mean, we could do it today, but our truly inspiring politicians (I'd say what they inspire but I'm fairly sure it's not allowed, so we'll settle on "scorn, defiance, slight regard, contempt and anything that might not misbecome me") would much rather take the money themselves, would they not?
USSR was beating us on every level of rocket technology. Then we built the Saturn V, which was better than any rocket ever built by anyone before or since.
Once we used this unbelievable breakthrough a few times, we destroyed every copy in existence, destroyed all the tools used to build them, and burned all the plans describing how to make them.
Yeah, that makes sense.
That really depends on how you define "better", does it not?
The Saturn V's Rocketdyne F-1 main engines were exactly what they were designed to be - honking great rockets that guzzled fuel and threw out noise, light and plenty of thrust. But they were not efficient compared to what is available today.
The Shuttle's RS-25's still put out plenty of power and they offer almost 50% extra specific impulse.
That said, yes, destroying the plans was utterly idiotic.
Soviets lost the space race because their lead engineer, a Ukrainian man with surname Korolyov, died. He died because of injuries he suffered in labour camp (gulag) where he was sent in 1930s for being a counterrevolutionary.
We stopped exploring for no reason, then several decades later decided to spend way more money building a much worse rocket to put a black woman on the moon.
You can't build a Model T either.
I think, if you watch “famous” old movies from that time (which I’ve been doing quite a bit, lately), this sort of thing was well underway already, among “elites”…
Just look at the literal cuckoldry in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, for instance.
However the difference was that this simply hasn’t reached the cultural “mainstream”, yet…
By the 90s, it pretty much had. And then the internet took over, and it became “the default”.
Now? Now we’re barely allowed to even question it, without being labeled “an enemy of the state”, due for cancelling, etc…
But this “process” has been happening for decades, unfortunately…
If the left had their way, we never would have done it. At the launch of Apollo 11, there were protesters there, making it know that they think the space program should be defunded and the funds redirected to welfare.