Re:Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
by satori99 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:03PM
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If I was alive in 1909 and someone made the claim that man would be walking on the moon in 60 years, I'd have called bullshit too.
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Re:Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
by jacquesm on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:28PM
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But that's not the claim. The claim is that 60 years counting from the moonlanding we will have a settlement on Mars. I don't believe it for a moment. And even 60 years from today is a thing that I would not believe. We have a hard enough time keeping places much more hospitable to life on planet earth supplied.
Maybe, just maybe, we will have made a manned round trip to Mars. And that would be quite an accomplishment. A much more likely chance is a one way trip with all hands lost, assuming they make it to the destination at all.
Re:Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
by jacobolus on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:45PM
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> claim is that 60 years counting from the moonlanding
To be fair, “hence” means counting from now, not counting from the moon landing.