Wonder of ScienceThese two photographs are separated by only 66 years.
Oliver SchafeldProbably nobody wants to see the third picture.
Kevin RussellOr do something to restore democracy.
All of humanity's problems, big and small are due to billionaires, easily overcome, except that billionaires bribe people to make it difficult.
All of humanity's problems, big and small are due to billionaires. All of our problems are choices away from ending.
And the problems are HUGE, and deadly.
annabethgrigsby@wonderofscience Science and technology are developing very rapidly
Joost Rekveld@annabethgrigsby @wonderofscience based on the same two pictures you could argue that science and technology have ground to a halt since 1970 ;)
Maho 🦝🍻
Fernhead@wonderofscience
Wow, the improvements in cameras, am I right?
Wow, the improvements in cameras, am I right?
Brad Rosenheim@wonderofscience Then, another 56 years goes by and the Earth is flat, vaccines are bad, everyone is smarter than the climate scientists because internet.
Lea de Groot TZ+10@wonderofscience and its been another 56 years since then, and how much farther along are we? :( The internet has done nothing except give us grifters and cat photos (I like the cat photos!)
KanaMaunaMany people (like my gg-grandma) were around for both of these.
Noel Kelly"you promised me Mars colonies and all I got was Facebook."
Buzz Aldrin, 2012
Juho MäntysaloComparing Wrights and Apollo is somewhat dishonest. Wights' plane was the culmination of creating heavier-than-air, steerable, untethered, engined machine capable of flight. In 1905 it was mostly a curiosity.
Zeppelins were faster, could carry more, and flew further. Plus were more comfortable. And so it was until 1937 [Hindenburg]. The Wrights were held as peak only after that.
To say it otherwise: Wrights were the culmination of a manned kite; Apollo canons/rockets.
LoveThaess@wonderofscience Dude this time comparison drives me wild whenever I think of it
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐@wonderofscience There are how many years between V-E Day 1945 and Election Day 2016? Only 71. Thanks for demonstrating how short human memory really is.
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@wonderofscience Pretty certain that first image is fake. Only birds can fly, and they're not real.
SearingTruth"Critical Focus
Fortunately, there is a curious and wonderful fact about humanity.
Whenever we come together to focus on and solve some seemingly insurmountable problem, we are successful.
From initially learning to navigate vast oceans, to understanding and curing disease, to placing humans on the moon and exploring the solar system beyond, our species record of technical achievement is truly stunning.
In fact, history clearly records that our progress as a species is not impeded by our inability to solve critical problems; it is instead impeded by our inability to recognize and focus on them.
We have survived thus far not by elegant planning, but simply because of our once isolated population groups, the relatively low level of past technologies, and sheer dumb luck.
However, time has turned, and we cannot go back. Populations have become almost completely integrated, our technology has progressed to fantastic and globally lethal levels, and sooner or later our sheer dumb luck will run out.
Without direction, without a plan, without common goals and purpose, our species, and our world, will fail.
All our history, all our dreams, all our knowledge, our anguish, our joy, our victories, our defeats, all of our passion, everything that was human, gone forever. As if it had never existed in time at all.
Could anyone, no matter what their nationality or beliefs, want their children or grandchildren to live their last anguished moments of life in this failed world? A world now beset by an inescapable catastrophe that could easily have been avoided if their ancestors had exercised just a little foresight and vision?
I think not."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave, 2005
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Julian@wonderofscience and the second one was 57 years ago. So where are we now?
Face Thumb@wonderofscience It was all faked! It was filmed in a Hollywood studio. The Wright brothers said Tarantino was the worst director they had ever worked with, he would use the other brother's name and just shout at them until they turned around, never again. They got Spielberg for their next flight. You can tell all the footage is fake because there isn't any wind in North Carolina.
Dr. Jürgen Knödlseder@wonderofscience @gleick Same here: these photos are 63 years apart.
Angela Scholder@wonderofscience And the latter now 56 years ago?
a fading echo@wonderofscience
What will be the third?
What will be the third?
David Colquhoun on Bluesky@wonderofscience
My father lived through both
My father lived through both
langhaarschneider@wonderofscience @Dadmin und bald sind wieder 66 Jahre rum und was hat sich getan?
jakob 🇦🇹 ✅@langhaarschneider @Dadmin @wonderofscience
Man muss den Menschen wieder erklären, dass die Erde tatsächlich keine Scheibe ist, und der Mond kein Loch im Himmelszelt...
Dadmin
ChristerIt’s because at the times, American people aspired to intelligence, didn’t belittle it as if make them feel inferior.
Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ@wonderofscience fixed wing flight and rocket technology are seperate paths. Rockets have existed since the Song dynasty in China, with the development of solid-propellant rockets around the 13th century, initially as weapons and fireworks. The first person to launch a liquid-fueled rocket was American physicist Robert Goddard in 1926.
@stevewfolds@wonderofscience 23 years after the Wright Brothers, Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid fueled rocket.
Emily Love 🏳️⚧️@wonderofscience It's incredible how much progress was made in photography!