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.
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.
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.
Yeah, that makes sense.
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.