Re:Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released
by pjc50 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:08AM
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Humans are capable of Mach 3 flight. It's just a "latent" capability. Something we could do but is not currently cost-effective.
> The technology that produced those pictures are gone, we might be able to take ones like them again, but never with the same rockets and never with the same photo-chemical processes.
You can never step in the same river twice, and we are all mortal. This is just a statement about the passage of time.
> Progress is fragile, not inevitable and everything we have can be lost in a generation just as easily as it was made.
This, on the other hand, is important, and why it's important not to let people wreck it by lying about everything.
Worth questioning the "whig view of history" backwards as well; a lot of what we call progress had very large costs for certain groups of people at the time and made their lives worse. Or got them killed.
> The technology that produced those pictures are gone, we might be able to take ones like them again, but never with the same rockets and never with the same photo-chemical processes.
You can never step in the same river twice, and we are all mortal. This is just a statement about the passage of time.
> Progress is fragile, not inevitable and everything we have can be lost in a generation just as easily as it was made.
This, on the other hand, is important, and why it's important not to let people wreck it by lying about everything.
Worth questioning the "whig view of history" backwards as well; a lot of what we call progress had very large costs for certain groups of people at the time and made their lives worse. Or got them killed.