I feel like 1 year ago this would have a lot more points.
It's pretty cool that recovering used rocket boosters is becoming a norm
It's pretty cool that recovering used rocket boosters is becoming a norm
The sense of awe sticks around though. I don't know, I still will from time to time get a little sense of vertigo when I'm in an airplane and the landing gear leaves the runway. The scope and scale of human accomplishment to get to the point where this miracle has become mundane will occasionally hit with the peculiar warmth that accompanies the loss of meaning of a word spoken one too many times. It briefly becomes new again, and amazing.
It is pretty cool indeed.
I get that feeling alot when I consider think like that I have a device in my pocket more powerful than a 1980's supercomputer.
2.0 Gflops = top 250 in 1993: https://www.top500.org/list/1993/11/?page=3
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For example: old crufty rant about how no one talks to each other and everyone is on their phones. Get a video from the 1960s of people on a train in NYC. Everyone has their head in a book or newspaper or magazine. By the 1980s, some nerds have walkmans. By the 90s everyone has discmans, plus their book. Today every has their phone, on which their either reading a book, a magazine or listening to a podcast or music. The media is different, it's a bit more interactive, but it really hasn't changed that much.
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Of course people don't interact on mass transit.
The media is different, it's a bit more interactive, but it really hasn't changed that much.
It has been a progression. More and more interaction has been mediated electronically, where it's been widely known since at least the 80's that interpersonal cues do not work in the same way. Of course non-interaction on mass transit is going to be a constant. It's socializing in the home, day to day, where things have changed.
Things have changed.
They are also on social media or playing mindless addictive games walking down the street, at restaurants, in stores, in the park, intermittently during the workday, in bed, on the toilet, ...
(Citation: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.DPRT?end=2017&st...)
Mildly aerophobic here: i took the plane when I had to, but definitely never enjoyed it.
I thought to myself "I bet they don't land both boosters at the same time in the actual landing" and then several days later they did. It was amazing.
This is becoming the norm for kids now. Children yet to be born may not remember a time when such crafts weren't common!
Curious what the minimal wind, wave requirements for such landing....