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If it’s true that these two photographs are only separated by 66 years, does that mean that NASA faked the moon landing on the beach at Kitty Hawk?
No wonder it took that plane 66 years to fly to the moon. It looks really slow.
Yay! Money! It’s what matters!tm
Even if you don’t care about money, you shouldn’t be feeling like you’re on steady well-trodden ground if you live on the side of a steep slope like this. The same would go for e.g. scientific output (however that’s measured), world population, agricultural output, and so on.
what is even the point of this graph? GDP is a nonsensical metric that barely tells anything about the economy, let alone society and technology.
you could substitute almost any other graph. This isn’t about GDP really, just about change.
i think it’s not meant too literally, more like a meme, to make fun of people who say sci-fi will forever stay sci-fi while at the same time things change very quickly.
GDP is the metric of more, that’s all they are concerned about
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What we’re really fucking up is the ramp from fossil to advanced energy sources that could enable massive outward expansion into the solar system. The billionaires are forgetting that a larger piece of a smaller pie is still less pie.
mRNA vaccines. Net positive power output from fusion. Off the top of my head.
I agree with your concept of capitalism killing innovation and forcing people into dead-end jobs. But that doesn’t mean technical innovation is dead. Just means it’s not progressing optimally and not benefiting the right people.
Generative AI too. It might be hammered into everything to the point of being tiresome, but it is technologically impressive that you can have a computer just synthesise a photo/video/music.
Compare to 20 years ago. Being able to just go “Computer, create for me an original landscape painting”, and have it make one would be something that you’d only find on television/in movies.
isn’t that goochie goo autism old guy halting mRNA research?
Not in any civilized country, no.
I mean for the US. Which is like what, less than 5% of the world population? And now maybe much less??
In 2025, most everyone in the world can translate foreign languages at the press of a button. I dislike Gwern since he’s a bigot, but I like his article, “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s.”
We could do that in 2010, which is about where it stagnated.
Google translate isn’t much better than it was in 2010, but LLMs do a much better job. Admittedly, Google Translate is what most people use. It works well enough though.
Yeah. Last tine we gor any positive modal shift was smart phones. That was 17 years ago.
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The phones weren’t the problem.
Well, they fucked uo design a lot, but tgey didn’t ruin everything.
We’re still ignoring the history of all flight and rocketry prior to the invention of the heavier than air aircraft, I see.
Right, we have a glider back in 1853, and rockets forever (thanks war!). Just took a little extra time to put it all together.
Photography advanced by a lot in that time.
In other news, this is what computers looked like 66 years ago. Where/when did we go astray?
Citizens United.
Edit: I lie, it was way before this
I agree, I’m surprised that thing doesn’t have an ashtray.
flat-screen LCD monitors were a mistake.
Pretty sure people invented flags long time ago.
/j
And only 12 years later…
That is when we peaked as a civilisation. When MTV stopped being a music channel that’s when things started to go downhill.
Hot take: MTV peaked when they were airing animation, not music
Mid 90s were great. You had music in the mornings and then Beavis and Butthead, ren and stimpy, and Daria during the day. Unfortunately, they sprinkled in some RR reality TV shows, which was probably the beginning of the end.
Amen brother.
then The Learning Channel stopped being about learning
then The History Channel stopped being about history
then Fox stopped being about foxes.
Time to make another deal with aliens to the next big jump
And you wonder why people think there was a conspiracy.
Every conspiracy theory basically starts with, “I don’t trust the government, therefore…”
Which means the first part of it is valid, it’s the extrapolation that goes sideways.
Amazing how photography technology improved.
both of them are fake
You should not have left Reddit.
Imagine believing in planes in 2025.
Lmao. Take your upvote and get out, sir.
Thanks for le gold, le kind stranger!
Nope
Yep
Oh yeah, they used CGI to make it look like the plane was flying.
They towed it around with a zeppelin hidden out of frame.
And hid the rope in
premiere prophotoshop.
The chance if these pictures being from real events is greater than the chance of you being a real person.
I cast away my personhood years ago only a meager husk remains.
Hah! See, I was right. The Internet is dead.
Pretty sure that was a joke. I’ve never heard of anyone claim that aircraft don’t exist
66 years is a long time. Considering that 1969 was 56 years ago, we still have 10 years to do something similarly worthwhile.
… 10 years is also a long time. It can wait until tomorrow.
I’ve had that mindset of “10 years is a long time; what’s one more day” since adolescence. Boom, now it’s 16 years in the future and I’m suddenly a dysfunctional adult struggling to get through each day.
But on the bright side, I just began medication for ADHD, and it’s not only life changing, it’s life saving. I feel capable, motivated, and determined for the first time in my life. Let’s build the future so that 2035 will be a milestone for humanity!
It’s just a question of priorities.
The AI thumbnail isnt real, YouTube faked it in a cooperation effort with the US government to seem like they were winning the AI war between them and China.
Well the equivalent would be to leave the the solar system for this kind of step up. I don’t see even setting foot on Mars by 2035…
Like the recently anounced nuclear reactor ?
I don’t think that is as big as the moon landing. Finding alien life would be more in the same vein.
We would need a significant technological boost to be able to see the surfaces of alien worlds, I think that technology alone would be a candidate for innovation. After all whether or not we find aliens is not dependant on the technology but depending on if there are any to find.
These are two different tech trees. Rockets had 1000+ years of development to get to this point while aeroplanes had ~30. I hate that this bullshit gets repeated. They are not equivalent in any way.
Pretty sure flight and orbital mechanics have some overlap.
Came to say this. The Apollo missions are forks of ICBMs.
We should instead show a picture of Robert Goddard next to his 1926 LO2-fuel rocket and then man on the moon and say “These two images are only 43 years apart.” It’s objectively more impressive because within an average lifetime at any point in history, we went from rockets as fireworks and weapons to landing on the moon. But it also requires people to know who Robert Goddard is and what he invented.
I’m hoping this future post of yours makes it to the front page so many can learn.
It is a bit different sending a paper rocket into the air and successfully bringing people to the moon.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that rockets started development 66 years before humans reaching the moon. It is just that it is a rapid development from barely being possible for humans to fly to suddenly (66 years later) bouncing around on the moon.
