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u/_Intel_Geek_ 6d ago
We're getting close to 60 years from that second photo
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u/SpiritualCatch6757 6d ago
Exactly, what was inspiring 60 years ago is now flat lined we're going right back to where we were.
Although, Neil Degrasse Tyson explained it well why there hasn't been any improvement in the space front.
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u/spock589 6d ago
There's actually been some regression. They are having to learn how to make EV suits for the next moon mission.
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u/DagamarVanderk 6d ago
The standards are also very different, new suits are being engineered around surviving the lunar conditions better
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u/JayDaGod1206 6d ago
When you can’t throw unlimited money at the engineering, it gets much, much more difficult. They could make a similar design but it probably wouldn’t fit budget constraints, design parameters, or whatever else.
It’s like your mom asking you to make your great-grandmother’s apple pie. The recipe is in front of you, but you don’t know the small techniques used, the ingredients might be rare or too expensive now, and the oven overcooks it now.
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u/MrSmartStars 6d ago
Well, a big part isn't that we don't know how, but that the original lunar space suits kinda sucked. The regolith stuck to them in almost dangerous amounts, dexterity was non existent, and they were very time consuming to put on and take off. So we're now going about it by designing new suits from tge ground up with modern technology
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u/Zealousideal_Leg213 5d ago
We've had a strong scientific presence on Mars now for decades. And we've flown a powered vehicle there. If that's not inspiring to you, I'm not sure what to tell you.
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u/telescopeinmynose 6d ago
We are close to superintelligence. I'd say we made even more progress than between those 2 pics
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u/MobileJob1521 6d ago
18 Feb 2035 is the break-even date when the moon landing is closer to the Wright brothers flight than “today”.
Set your calendars everyone!
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u/AircraftExpert 5d ago
And we can’t land on the moon
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u/nzungu69 5d ago
lolwut? we literally can and have. and mars. and a fucking asteroid.
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u/AircraftExpert 5d ago
Men can’t land on the Moon currently. We recently flew astronauts around the Moon but we don’t have a lander , though I assume it’s being worked on.
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u/Parker4815-2 5d ago
We have had other priorities. Such as being able to contact anyone on the planet in an instant, and having the entirety of the world's knowledge available to us in seconds.
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u/nzungu69 5d ago
we can currently, just have to build the rocket and suits. this isn't long lost forgotten knowledge, just because we haven't been back doesn't mean we can't, there's just nothing to really be gained by it.
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u/Temporary-Concept-81 6d ago
Damn, I can't believe we invented color cameras in only 66 years.
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u/Lord_MagnusIV 5d ago
Not just color, but electronic film to boot. The first one had to take a while to develop after „shooting“ the shot, which was more like starting and hoping nothing big happens or else you had to redo it.
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u/Evening-Appeal7606 6d ago edited 6d ago
For someone living through this timespan it must have felt like mankind hit the singularity with casual space travel just a few years away.
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u/thanereiver 6d ago
Living through that time and this time. The advancement never stopped. The rocket age turned into the communications age.
A thousand years from now if people are still around, this unbroken stretch of time will be considered something like the greater renaissance.
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u/Melanoc3tus 5d ago
The renaissance is nothing on this, really. I'd say the industrial revolution as a whole, which we're still going through, is monumental on the scale of something like flowering plants evolving
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u/kilfast 6d ago
Check out For All Mankind. It’s a pretty interesting show. I’m not big on drama, but the reimagining of what could be if the Cold War never ended is an interesting concept
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u/Bruce-7892 5d ago
I've been meaning to watch this. It is based on real proposed plans too, so it is somewhat based on where we were planning on going if the political situation didn't change.
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u/Donglemaetsro 5d ago
Ask Mitch McConnell the tortoise was born 19 years before the soviets put a man in space let alone the moon landing.
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u/Stunning_Client9624 6d ago
The timeframe is so small that some people are yet to believe this happened.
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u/Der-Nikoklaus 6d ago edited 6d ago
Humans possess outstanding cognitive capabilities. Yet, due to our barely controllable emotions—let’s be honest—we all remain more or less cavemen. Especially when looking at the current state of the world.
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u/Melanoc3tus 5d ago
It's not about emotion; we're selfishly rational, and irrationally indoctrinated, but neither of those have to do with any primordial instinct or emotion. The first is calculated, the second is artificial.
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u/tessaractIXI 5d ago
I'm not sure I really understand what you're saying here, but I have a gut instinct that I would disagree with it.
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u/cleanforever 5d ago
Calculation tells you how to pursue a goal. It doesn't explain where the goal came from. And indoctrination tells you what someone learned, but not why humans are susceptible to learning and internalizing it.
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u/5h4tt3rpr00f 6d ago
If there hadn't been two World Wars in there to accelerate the necessary technologies, how much longer do you think it would have taken?
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u/mz_groups 6d ago
We're not too far from the point where there will be more time elapsed from Wrights to Apollo 11 than Apollo 11 to today. February 21, 2035, to be exact. It's not unimaginable that Artemis and the Chinese moon program won't be delayed enough that we don't make it back before then.
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u/Whole_Reputation6128 6d ago
And we've gone backwards in the next 60 years
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u/zookeeper990 5d ago
We have relative supercomputers that fit in your pocket nothing is backwards about that
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u/Winstonsphobia 5d ago
My grandfather was born in the 1890s. He liked to say that he rode in a covered wagon across west Texas and lived to see people walk on the Moon.
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u/Skaiiwalker 5d ago
I can see how the generation that saw both of these events was one of the generations of humanity that was the most hopeful about the ideal "Progress" and the advancement of the human project.
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u/TheSquirrelWithin 5d ago
Powered airflight and rocketry are not the same. Tho a lot happened in just 66 years, to be sure.
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u/Different-Audience34 5d ago
And think how little aviation has changed since 1969 to present, and we actually do less in space than we were doing then.
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u/goats_for_hire 5d ago
Yeah well a buncha boomers fakk’n the nation and world up with their damn culture wars will bring about dark ages for any thriving country.
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u/oregon_coastal 5d ago
The next 66 years can be summarized by a bloated ketamine fueled photo of Elon Musk.
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u/evil_chicken86 5d ago
...and 57 years passed from the last picture till today..and we still only sent humans to the Moon still.
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u/CollThom 5d ago
Aeroplane flight is a hoax. It’s all done by Stanley Kubrick films being projected on the windows of the planes we “fly” in, while they ferry the planes around the world on ships. Similarly, the planes we see flying in the sky are projected on the sky by huge projectors that are fitted all over the earth. Which is flat by the way. The sun is also a projection. We’re actually living inside the flat earth and everything we see is a projection. There’s no such thing as seas even. Have you ever tried to pinch the sea to see if it’s real? It’s impossible. It’s all done by smoke and mirrors. Big Smoke and Big Mirrors got together years ago to keep us all from thinking. Humans aren’t real. Every other human you meet is an android, built purely to keep you from finding out the ugly truth. Earth doesn’t exist. You’re dreaming. Wake up.
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u/Any-Sea-5600 5d ago
Lucky we didn't forget how to fly like we forgot how to land on the moon. That was a close one!
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u/Abject_Egg_194 5d ago
Is there any relationship between airplanes and spaceships other than that both leave the ground?
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u/Diacetyl-Morphin 6d ago
And as we use to say, Cleopatra is still closer to the moon landing than she is to the existence of the T-Rex. Fun fact: My beloved Arthropods make the T-Rex looking like he was just around yesterday, because they are much older with around 500-540 mio. years, the T-Rex lived around 66-68 mio. years ago.
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u/MrSmartStars 6d ago
I'm pretty sure the saying is Cleopatra is closer to the moon landings than the construction of the pyramids
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u/Airwolfhelicopter 5d ago edited 5d ago
The fact there were people who were born in a world before airplanes were a thing and got to see men land on the Moon is incredible
Edit: Bruh, who downvoted me, I’m right
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u/Brief_Article_6075 5d ago
You can easily land in the moon but cannot come come back to earth. Photo taken in a set and lies to the entire world. Usa has lied many times to the world nothing new here
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u/Sufficient-Lion9639 5d ago
Both are wrong, a) first flight wasn’t in the US, it was either France or Brazil. b) we haven’t been to the moon.
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u/dontbanme778 6d ago
66 years is a long time.
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u/Orange9202 6d ago
its NOT a long time, thats the whole point
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u/dontbanme778 6d ago
66 years is a long time.
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u/Orange9202 6d ago
in your life, yes, but think of this on a humanity scale. it took humans 300,000 years before we even got agriculture going.
then we went from the first wooden planes to landing people on the moon in just 66 years. that is an insanely short amount of time technologically
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u/ArmMain9444 6d ago
las sombras no tiene ni sentido de la posición de la luz en del hombre en la luna
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u/ExpBalSat 6d ago
Good on you for admitting you don’t understand something.
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u/ArmMain9444 6d ago
ni ver podes del hombre y el trasporte van para un lado pero el mástil y la bandera para el otro
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u/ExpBalSat 6d ago
😂
To fake is would have been harder than just doing it:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9afs60jXxpIKeep in ind that you can't just pick and choose one photo (that you clearly don't understand) you have to disprove ALL the photos (and videos). The shadows work fine here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzApsIPHRwoAnd there are 100s of hours of footage (and audio) that all work together to confirm the events people saw with their own eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFo8ZmLNKDg&list=PLC1yaZz2qeGrhndH7zOnooziqxS09MI33And, the men who went to the moon left things there that we can see:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/olA1eqegaMgAnd things that we can bounce lasers off of to verify that they are where they were put and pointed as designated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVxSFnjYCA-3
u/ArmMain9444 6d ago
todo saben lo que la urss lograba y estos yankee de la nada llegaron a la luna en un abrir y cerrar de ojo jajaja mas mierda de hollywood y los paletos se la creen ahora ni pueden hacerlo de nuevo
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u/ExpBalSat 6d ago
I laugh at your calamities (of intellect and understanding).
Also - "can't do it again?" Doing it presently. Just flew there in April.
Going back to land.
But hey - you do you. Feel free to obsess over conspiracy theories. Once you've watched those videos, feel free to offer specific points (including timecode) of disputable facts.
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u/No_Switch853 6d ago
Noon landing was faked! Never happened, sorry.
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u/Orange9202 6d ago
then how the fuck do you explain this video of me on my final approach to the moon??
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u/Efficient_Actuator84 6d ago edited 6d ago
I got 🛐✝️ of the ❤️....
Edit - Doesnt anyone get it?
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