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Originally Posted by renormalised
You only have to look at the pace of technology to see where we might well be in that time....especially with computers.
Look at it this way....someone born in 1900...took 40 years to go from nothing to building the Spitfire fighter and the V2 rocket, another 21 years to put a man into orbit and only 8 years after that to goto the Moon. Your pocket calculator has more computing power than the Apollo XI Lunar Module and your laptop has more computing power than the whole of NASA back in 1969-1974 (length of time for program of manned flight to the Moon). The only thing stopping further manned exploration of the solar system is political will (to spend the money etc etc etc), not the technology (despite what NASA might say about it). We're going to be light years ahead of where we are now in 50 years, let alone another 100-200. All we have to do is get our act together on this planet and we'll manage to go places and do things we can't even dream of at present...in only a very short period of time.
Just so long as Microsoft and Bill Gates has nothing to do with it....   |
Interesting. Historically I agree. I mean it's hard to believe that 100 yrs ago most people where still riding horses but we have other problems now such as over-population, limited resources and cost. I would have thought that'd put a brake on research and reprioritize spending to domestic problems so to speak. But I guess you're better placed than me to have an opinion about this as you revolve closer to the scientific community. I'm just part of the chocolate cheesecake mob
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