It's 2026. Where's the space elevator Arthur C. Clarke promised us?!

And the moon base with the maglev launch system that Robert Heinlein promised us!

@AlterNewt
Well, ELon wants to build tunnels under New Orleans. How's that?

@edwilk

No. No, damn it!

Space elevator! Space elevator!

@AlterNewt
Maybe one is being built but all they show in TV is airports.

‪Acyn‬
‪@acyn.bsky.social‬
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Trump on TSA Lines: Our great military triumphs against Iran can't be displayed on television because they are displaying airports.

@AlterNewt I want the jaunting that Alfred Bester imagined
@AlterNewt But the Dow is over 50,000!