Chuck Yeager has died

Re:Chuck Yeager has died by bmcn2020 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:00AM (#25342056)

100% in agreement. Rather, we went from big, visual, dramatic accomplishments to whatever we have now -- a tightening of the status quo? advances that boost consumer spending?

I'm reading The Trouble with Physics (2007) now, and it's about the same themes (lack of progress in physics since ~1980s [besides higgs boson i guess]).

Overall though, seems that human advances, for the sake of humanity, have fallen by the wayside for...stuff like the red-bull sponsored jump

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Re:Chuck Yeager has died by wyldfire on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:34AM (#25342262)

Besides the Highs-Boson, the LIGO, Hubble, JWST, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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Re:Chuck Yeager has died by jagger27 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:55AM (#25342356)

Don’t jinx Webb before it’s in orbit!

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Re:Chuck Yeager has died by tunnuz on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:37AM (#25342868)

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Re:Chuck Yeager has died by joshualross on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:36AM (#25342268)

There have been amazing leaps in astrophysics; gravitational wave detection, planet detection around other stars (>4000), first image of a black hole, not to mention all the space probes doing science throughout the solar system. Outside of astrophysics, I think CRISPR has tremendous potential as well.

I don't disagree that too much of our collective intelligence is spent trying to sell advertisements, it's a shame.

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Re:Chuck Yeager has died by sounds on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:13AM (#25342134)

I am optimistic about the future of the human race.

I won't put a persuasive essay here, but just say, I am optimistic about it.

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