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Re:Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 7... by Erlich_Bachman on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:21AM (#21407537)
Wouldn't we very quickly notice if any of the basic laws of phsyics would change, or if any of the physical constants would nudge even a fraction of a million - because our machines (like microchips, radios, like quantum computers, like satellites, GPS, etc. etc.) would stop working as they were intended?
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Re:Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 7... by mschuster91 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:16AM (#21408332)
Yeah, we would notice it, but that's not the point of re-running these kinds of experiments.

Just look what humanity was able to do in the Space Race with "computers" less powerful than an ordinary standard wristwatch of today: going to the moon, surviving there and coming back. Today? If it were not for SpaceX, the US would not have a path to access to its own manned transfer capability.

If we do not use abilities, we lose them. Knowledge gets forgotten, data bit-rots, machinery rusts apart.

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Re:Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 7... by Erlich_Bachman on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:06AM (#21408896)
> "computers" less powerful than an ordinary standard wristwatch of today: going to the moon, surviving there and coming back

This is more of a statement of how little computing power is needed for rudimentary space travel. The technology itself was quite advanced, just in other aspects than raw computing power.

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Re:Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 7... by mschuster91 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @11:09AM (#21428084)
Sure but the US has lost so much abilities and especially knowledge. Most people active in the Moon-landing era are pensioners by now and there are at lwast two generations who have to start from scratch now instead of having decades of iterative tech improvements.
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