the Saturn V rocket (tax-payer socialist funded) we watched send men to the moon in 1969.
Who actually believes that the US was more advanced 50 years ago
Em... me.
We also had Concorde, flying lazily over my school before test-flights, west-coast Scotland, looking like a UFO from the math class window, directed by my Dad, who was international air-traffic control. 3 hours, London to New York, instead of the 8 hours now (yes, very polluting and expensive). My dad was navigator (hardest job) in the highest flying operational aircraft on Earth before there were astronauts. An RAF aircraft that won the Cold War (my mother was avante-garde female artist in the 1950s before that was the norm.) We also had space shuttles, deep-space probes such as Voyager, wind power, solar power, wave-power, pump-storage hydroelectricity, hovercraft over the English Channel instead of Brexit Chunnel, also Donna Summer, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, New Order, Detante instead of the New Cold War, Peristroika, David Attenborough warning the world in 1979, The Rumble in the Jungle, Francis Chichester, NHS (being dismantled by corporotists now), and Sean Connery.
And the most powerful machine ever made, that took men to the moon in 1969.
What should we deduce from things like hovercraft no longer operating, 47 years without man returning to the moon?
Is it that we are less advanced or it is more likely to be other factors like:
Chunnel is faster and cheaper so hovercraft's selling point of being faster than ferry has disappeared.
Cost of moon program was prohibitive at that time with a really high proportion of scientists working on space flight and moon landing in some direct or indirect way. And Apollo 13 showed it had been rushed and was being done in unsafe manner.
Shuttle - quite a bit reusable but with high costs and slow preparation to reuse.
Concorde - expensive.
Deep space probes - we have more and more sophisticated now.
Wind power, solar yes they existed but not at competitive price.
Wave power still doesn't seem to have got to being reliable enough to be competitive.
Donna Summer, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, New Order, The Rumble in the Jungle, Francis Chichester, NHS (being dismantled by corporotists now), and Sean Connery
Hmmm, I'll leave these to others to assess.
Trump, brexit makes one wonder but then are we any worse than cuban missile crisis?
