• meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    10 天前

    First flight of an airplane: 1903 First landing on the Moon: 1969

    67 years. Not even a single average lifetime.

    • cynar@lemmy.world
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      10 天前

      I remember there being a newspaper interview with an old lady. She was a child and saw one of the wright brothers first flights. She then got to see man land on the moon, at the other end of her life.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    10 天前

    Both the “space” and “travel” parts of “space travel” are disputable there. It’s not even “space tourism”. I’ll maybe give you “high altitude tourism”. Space tourism, to me, implies spending an extended period in space, not a minute or two. That’s barely enough time for a satisfying wank.

  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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    10 天前

    It’s to fund development of commercial grade space travel.

    It’s gonna be expensive at start, but as it’s economised, less dangerous, more accessible, demand picks up, more infrastructure, even more accessible and bam commercial air travel/EV/Cars only in space.

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      10 天前

      Yup, this is the sad reality of the system we live in. If we want space travel, it has to receive funding, and we have to hope that billionaires really want that wank.

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    10 天前

    I mean it was never going to magically go from highly selective to anyone being able to go to space overnight. As time goes on and technology advances the “too much money” bar drops lower and lower.

    Hopefully if society doesn’t collapse, it might be feasible for an average person to do it as a once in a lifetime experience.

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    10 天前

    I hear there’s nuttin in space anyway

  • Ronno@feddit.nl
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    9 天前

    Such negative sentiment. Not everything is about rebelling against billionaires you know? Space travel is following the same innovation curve as any other mode of travel. Remember how expensive a car used to be, or flying? Those used to be only for the wealthy, now you can hop on a flight to the other side of the content for less than 100 Euro. It will eventually be the same for space travel. The cost of space cargo is coming down quickly, which will enable us to explore “the final frontier”. I hope I get to experience it in my lifetime and it isn’t really outside the realm of possibility either.

  • tatann@lemm.ee
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    10 天前

    What about Strauss-Kahn who lost the french presidency election because he wanked in front an hotel employee ?