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No wonder it took that plane 66 years to fly to the moon. It looks really slow.
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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.
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??
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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…
We got satellites out of our solar system.
Which launched 48 years ago (or 6 years after the moon landing) 😂
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.
I wanted to show real time rendered graphics in the same interval, but there were no real time graphics in 1959.
Still, these two are 33 years apart, so we can do half.
New technologies tend to explode very quickly while there is obvious iteration and improvement from a new principle left on the table and then they settle down as the room for improvement shrinks.
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My experience with how these are rendered in different apps is… inconsistent. I’m not on a Lemmy instance, so I end up going with the simplest option.
If and when all Fedi apps do this properly… well, at that point I wouldn’t have to add anything manually, would I?
Rockets are far older than airplanes and have absolutely nothing in common with each other, other than “things you do in the air”. It’s equivalent to taking a shit and brushing your teeth. Not connected at all.
Except they absolutely influence each other and to pretend like there is a world where one exists without the other, especially building a spaceworthy rocket, is just wrong. Aerospace principles are highly intertwined even if the application of knowledge gained from either is applied differently.
I would say that they’re like brushing and flossing. Very different on the face of it but the background to either is completely linked to the other. Each informs and aids the practice of the other.
You could argue that spitting out some pixels on a CRT has about as much to do with rendering millions of polygons into multiple frame buffers and collecting the whole thing into a digital image to output over HDMI.
The OP makes a decent leap in terms of “things that move us away from the ground”, I don’t have a problem with it, even if there are a handful of big changes in methodology along the way.
I mean, if we take your caveat at face value we end up with some combination of the Concorde, a F-35, the A380 and a remote controlled drone. Honestly, the point stands just as well.
Bathroom
Amazing how photography technology improved.
In other news, this is what computers looked like 66 years ago. Where/when did we go astray?
I agree, I’m surprised that thing doesn’t have an ashtray.
Citizens United.
Edit: I lie, it was way before this
flat-screen LCD monitors were a mistake.
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.
then The Learning Channel stopped being about learning
then The History Channel stopped being about history
then Fox stopped being about foxes.
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.
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?
Hard to believe that man landed on the moon only 60+ years after landing on Earth. Makes you wonder what’s next
Landing on the moon again. It’s been over fifty years since we’ve been back.
Well there is the Artemis program although it seems massively overly complicated.
SLS is basically just the Apollo rocket again, except without a lander. Then they’re going to dock with a space station that they haven’t built, and transfer via the space station onto a lander produce by SpaceX (although possibly there will be others), then land on the moon in the lander;and construct a permanent habitat on the moon. Presumably the space station will do something other than serve as a transfer system but I don’t really know what.
With the trump administration though it’s anyone’s guess what happens I’m assuming that they’ll probably cut funding so it won’t happen anyway.
Or perhaps another earth landing
Hmm, how about AI powered facism?
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
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.
Pretty sure people invented flags long time ago.
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Time to make another deal with aliens to the next big jump
Photography advanced by a lot in that time.
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.
both of them are fake
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
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
