Interstellar space travel ? Think again.....

[Kman]

After seeing the technological advancements just in my lifetime, I definitely think it’s a possibility. When, not in my lifetime.

 

[Ken Ford]

Just as having the world in the palm of my hand, was unfathomable in my teens, the next big breakthrough will likely be something unfathomable to me now.

 

[Bypass]

Just as having the world in the palm of my hand, was unfathomable in my teens, the next big breakthrough will likely be something unfathomable to me now.

1985 casio

 

[thevalueman]

Yeah....well....how ago do they think the world was flat.......

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

I can't even wrap my head around the idea of VHS or BETA videotape --which states back to the 1960s!

How a little handheld camera can record moving pictures and sound all by magnetizing different fields on a three-quarter inch piece of tape sprinkled with iron powder is beyond me.

(Back in the days before compact, super powerful computers.)

So for me to evaluate the possibility of interstellar travel would be like me asking an ant on my front porch....

to tell me how long it would take him to march on his six little legs
from Gainesville to Atlanta.

 

[lostchild]

I can't even wrap my head around the idea of VHS or BETA videotape --which states back to the 1960s!

So for me to evaluate the possibility of interstellar travel would be like me asking an ant on my front porch....

to tell me how long it would take him to march on his six little legs
from Gainesville to Atlanta.

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Stomp his little azz flat. He ain't going. Problem solved

 

[Ken Ford]

1985 casio
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That was more computing power than the capsule and lander that went to the moon.

 

[aFarewellToKings]

That was more computing power than the capsule and lander that went to the moon.

The story goes that on an early NASA mission, the engineer in charge
of the weight control demanded to know the weight of the software.
He would not take for an answer that it had no weight and demanded
to see it. Finally he was shown a deck of punched cards. "Ah ha!"
he said, "see, I knew it had to weigh something". The software
engineer replied: "You don't understand, the software is the *holes*
punched into these cards" :-)

 

[lostchild]

The story goes that on an early NASA mission, the engineer in charge
of the weight control demanded to know the weight of the software.
He would not take for an answer that it had no weight and demanded
to see it. Finally he was shown a deck of punched cards. "Ah ha!"
he said, "see, I knew it had to weigh something". The software
engineer replied: "You don't understand, the software is the *holes*
punched into these cards" :-)

Must have been a Georgia Tech grad.

 

[kodis556]

The story goes that on an early NASA mission, the engineer in charge
of the weight control demanded to know the weight of the software.
He would not take for an answer that it had no weight and demanded
to see it. Finally he was shown a deck of punched cards. "Ah ha!"
he said, "see, I knew it had to weigh something". The software
engineer replied: "You don't understand, the software is the *holes*
punched into these cards" :-)

I learned to code COBOL and PASCAL on punch cards...how old am I?