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Re:Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Ab... by fullshark on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:49AM (#18897366)
Yet its central “prediction”: that human travel into space would progress forward at a comparable rate to what was accomplished in the early 60s, was wildly off.
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Re:Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Ab... by slphil on Sunday January 13, 2019 @03:34PM (#18898522)
As was pointed out in an earlier comment, 2001 really only got the economics of space travel wrong. It's possible that we could have done it, technologically speaking, but that it just would have been a huge waste of capital.
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