Trent Shipley wrote:We'd stopped before then...
NB! I would like to make contact and all the future fictional dates 100 years in the future. The date for human NLS interstellar engines (2061 CE) is absurd. 2161CE seems safely remote.
I don't think it's absurd - it depends on the rate of space exploration. It just shows that in some point in the 1980s there was a "cusp" event that separated the Uplift Timeline from ours :-) <snip>
We can only speculate on _what_ we did wrong. Did the USSR fall too early?
For Trent - people in 1902 would have thought landing and walking on the surface of a heavenly body impossibly remote.
In November 1903 we weren't capable of controlled powered flight. By November 1973 we had walked on the moon, the Concorde was a reality, the SR71 had broken all speed records, computer aided flight with super-critical wings was possible, the Boeing 747 Jumbo was in service, guided missiles had intercontinental range, a manned space station was in orbit. OK - nothing has happenned since then, but if all that happenned in 70 years, who knows what the next 60 years might bring...
Cheers
Russell C.
(Based on the development between 1943 and 1973, my generation expected to vacation in space)
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