I find it absolutely amazing that NASA managed to get this piece of equipment to function this well for so long, and I don't believe we'll see its equal for quite some time.
Why? There isn't a *need* for this type of technology, people in general are not well equiped to think about what the long term will bring, rather reaping immediate rewards.
the problem? well, this will sound odd, but peace has broken out, the one reason that technological advances in these fields have nearly come to a halt is because there is no pressure to advance them further.
The only good thing I've ever seen coming out of war is that fact that certain fields of technology gain a HUGE momentum, flight, and the ensuing space flight is the best example of this.
I for one, don't doubt even for a second that if there hadn't been several major wars over the past years that we wouldn't be flying into outer space at this moment....
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I find it absolutely amazing that NASA managed to get this piece of equipment to function this well for so long, and I don't believe we'll see its equal for quite some time.
Why? There isn't a *need* for this type of technology, people in general are not well equiped to think about what the long term will bring, rather reaping immediate rewards.
the problem? well, this will sound odd, but peace has broken out, the one reason that technological advances in these fields have nearly come to a halt is because there is no pressure to advance them further.
The only good thing I've ever seen coming out of war is that fact that certain fields of technology gain a HUGE momentum, flight, and the ensuing space flight is the best example of this.
I for one, don't doubt even for a second that if there hadn't been several major wars over the past years that we wouldn't be flying into outer space at this moment....