Hank GreenThe space of time between Mendeleev’s first stab at a periodic table and Einstein’s paper on special relativity was smaller than the time between the release of Goonies and today.
David Senk@hankgreen and we went from “first flight” to “walking on the moon” in a single lifetime.
Bring back more science funding. Let smart people do cool shit, who knows where it will end up.
Bell Labs was an absolute world wonder in its heyday. Practically unlimited budgets for smart people doing cool shit got us the transistor, Unix, etc!