XKCD OTD

OriginalGriff

xkcd: Airplanes and Spaceships[^] Accurate and depressing ... :sigh:

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raddevus

OriginalGriff wrote:

Accurate and depressing ... :sigh:

Look on the bright side... The Internet is NEW compared to that stuff. The Web is even newer than the Internet. And, Twitter, is even newer than the Web. :rolleyes:

OriginalGriff

But in that time, aircraft went from the Wright brothers to passenger jets. And our spacecraft are still at the Charles Lindbergh stage ... :sigh:

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Matthew Dennis

But over 500 years from Leonardo to the Wright Brothers. [http://www.flyingmachines.org/davi.html\](http://www.flyingmachines.org/davi.html)

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

raddevus

And the Internet has gone from web pages hand-crafted by users to...Facebook. :sigh: But, we may as well laugh. :laugh:

dandy72

raddevus wrote:

The Internet is NEW compared to that stuff.

Not by that much (well, when compared to spacecraft). Isn't the generally accepted date somewhere around '69?

raddevus wrote:

The Web is even newer than the Internet.

91-92 or so.

R Giskard Reventlov

If only we really had found and reverse engineered alien spacecraft in 1947 (Roswell) - we'd be much farther out there... maybe...

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Nish Nishant

AWS lambdas can now run for 15 minutes (previously maxed out at 5 mins), so there's that. :-D

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Marco Bertschi

Dunno if reverse engineering a crashed spacecraft really helps a lot, except if building one that crashes as well :-D Maybe that's why we're not that far with these things, we just kept reverse engineering crashed alien crafts without trying to alter out the bugs present in their design (there must be bugs - they crashed onto earth, after all).

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Daniel Pfeffer

Obligatory xkcd: [xkcd: Space Launch System](https://xkcd.com/984/) :sigh:

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GuyThiebaut

Reminds me of how we are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus rex than Tyrannosaurus rex was to Stegosaurus.

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