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1. Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 09:10:33 JST Wonder of Science

   These two photographs are separated by only 66 years.

   • Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 09:18:12 JST Wonder of Science

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     Links to the full size image on Wikimedia Commons:

     https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wrightflyer.jpg
     https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS11-40-5875_-_Apollo_11_-_Apollo_11_Mission_image_-_Astronaut_Edwin_Aldrin_salutes_the_U.S._flag_that_has_been_placed_on_the_moon_-_NARA_-_16685052.jpg

   • Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 09:21:00 JST Brian Dear

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     @wonderofscience

     And we’re already 55 years from the moon photo.

   • 🇵🇸 Panino, o Moço 🇮🇷 (paninodesu@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 09:24:12 JST 🇵🇸 Panino, o Moço 🇮🇷

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     @wonderofscience This is a wrong comparison to make IMO.
     You should compare with photos from early rocket enthusiasts.

   • Emma Emily (emmaemily90@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 11:07:34 JST Emma Emily

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     @wonderofscience
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   • Scotty Trees (scottytrees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 11:45:42 JST Scotty Trees

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     @wonderofscience 66 years+a desire to destroy Communism lol

   • Edward Champion (edwardchampion@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 11:56:30 JST Edward Champion

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     @wonderofscience So does that mean we get flying cars and teleportation by 2035?

   • Desdinova (eternal_light@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 12:06:06 JST Desdinova

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     @wonderofscience To be fair, the top image should be Robert Goddard with his similarly early liquid rocket, which would have dated to 1926. So, 53 years from the earliest liquid fueled rockets.

   • rouxdoo √ (rouxdoo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 12:36:17 JST rouxdoo √

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     @wonderofscience

     Ummm, you mathed wrong - it was 53 years apart and we are now that far along from the second now as the first was from the second.

     All we have to show for it is the iPhone. Our early promise has rewarded us with good stuff - no doubt, but the scope of human progress since the moon landing is a tepid cup of tea at best by comparison.

   • Alex (depereo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 12:46:57 JST Alex

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     @wonderofscience 66 years after the moon landing we won't have a single glacier left :/

   • MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲 (goatroper@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 12:58:06 JST MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲

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     @wonderofscience

     Amazing! I watched it on TV with my grandfather who was born in 1890, the horse and buggy days.

   • Aminul Islam (offerpromote24@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 13:04:59 JST Aminul Islam

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   • Tofu Golem (tofugolem@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 13:06:22 JST Tofu Golem

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     @wonderofscience
     It's been 55 years since the bottom picture, and air/space travel have not significantly improved since then.

     Planes are a little safer and a little more fuel efficient. Low Earth orbit is more cluttered. Other than that, not a big change.

   • Juho Mäntysalo (iju@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 13:10:11 JST Juho Mäntysalo

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     @wonderofscience

     I'm using this to point out that Wrights didn't just pop out from the sea, but that they stood on the shoulders of others.

     The missing piece was their skill as bicycle manufacturers to bring the weight of the components down.

     (There are stories of unthethered flight before Caley, but as the saying goes: inventor is the one who invents something last (eg. writes their method down and demonstrates use worth copying the method), not the one doing something first.)

     #History

   • 🐜 (antdude@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 14:30:14 JST 🐜

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     @wonderofscience and 2024?

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   • Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 15:13:33 JST Brian Dear

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     @wonderofscience

     And 55 years after the moon photo, we’re here

     🤷♂️

   • Fat_Farang (fat_farang@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 16:43:08 JST Fat_Farang

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     @wonderofscience My grandfather, 1871 to 1971, was alive for both.

   • Alanna Gomez (alannagome00@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 17:49:11 JST Alanna Gomez

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   • Leshy (leshy_and_his_oak@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 18:31:14 JST Leshy

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     @wonderofscience This reminds of something that's been on my mind lately.

     During this period of rapid development of aerospace tech we believed that we'd have colonies on Mars in years. Yer shortly after the progress seemingly stalled. Problems have become more difficult.

     In the recent decades we've seen similar progress, but with information tech. And it is obvious that the growth we've seen is over. All the easy problems have been solved. And the recent crypto and AI bubbles are just copium.

   • Monic ragland (monicaragland@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 01:01:54 JST Monic ragland

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     @wonderofscience hello

   • C.J. (thebogusjuankanobie@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 21:59:02 JST C.J.

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     @wonderofscience Yikes what's next