In 1970 your TV was full of vacuum tubes and you fiddled with an antenna to make the fuzzy images broadcast over the air come in better.
Your phone was plugged into the wall and it had a rotary dial on it. All you could do with a phone was talk or listen.
Your car likely had bench seats and no seat belts. You rolled down the window with a crank and you turned on the high beams with a kick button at your left foot.
A portable calculator cost as much as a color TV and a powerful computer filled a large room.
The only area of technology that failed to progress from then to now is space travel. We could fly to the moon and back for five years before the space program curiously reverted back to where it was headed with the Gemini mission - nothing but endless trips around the planet in low earth orbit for the last fifty years.
So the government was super-competent when it came to flying 238,000 miles out into space, landing humans on the moon, then flying back in 1972. But for the next fifty years, all it can do is taxi people up to a manned satellite that orbits three hundred miles above us? Does NASA have less access to modern technology than Sony or Honda?
You would have us believe that we learned all we needed to know about outer space travel by watching astronauts drive dune buggies and hit golf balls on the moon.
We more likely watched astronauts drive dune buggies and hit golf balls somewhere in the desert and the same media that lied to us about JFK, 9/11, Saddam Hussein's WMDs and the 2020 Election told us we were watching footage taken on the moon.
In 1970 your TV was full of vacuum tubes and you fiddled with an antenna to make the fuzzy images broadcast over the air come in better.
Your phone was plugged into the wall and it had a rotary dial on it. All you could do with a phone was talk or listen.
Your car likely had bench seats and no seat belts. You rolled down the window with a crank and you turned on the high beams with a kick button at your left foot.
A portable calculator cost as much as a color TV and a powerful computer filled a large room.
The only area of technology that failed to progress from then to now is space travel. We could fly to the moon and back for five years before the space program curiously reverted back to where it was headed with the Gemini mission - nothing but endless trips around the planet in low earth orbit for the last fifty years.
TV: Private sector
Phone: Private sector
Car: Private sector
Calculator: Private sector
NASA: Government
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So the government was super-competent when it came to flying 238,000 miles out into space, landing humans on the moon, then flying back in 1972. But for the next fifty years, all it can do is taxi people up to a manned satellite that orbits three hundred miles above us? Does NASA have less access to modern technology than Sony or Honda?
What's the point of going there again?
There's nothing important there.
It's a waste of money.
You would have us believe that we learned all we needed to know about outer space travel by watching astronauts drive dune buggies and hit golf balls on the moon.
We more likely watched astronauts drive dune buggies and hit golf balls somewhere in the desert and the same media that lied to us about JFK, 9/11, Saddam Hussein's WMDs and the 2020 Election told us we were watching footage taken on the moon.