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What are some incredible human feats we take for granted?
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First flight in 1903, on the moon in 1969. That's 63 years. There are people who lived an experience where flight went from impossible to us planting a flag on a different celestial body. That's incredible when you stop to think about it.
I'm never sure if I am a hair splitter or other people have an America-centric view, but the first manned flight was with hot air balloons in 1783 in Paris. Like, I know the invention of the aeroplane is the more relevant event, but a balloon is still flight.
Yep. In a lot of ways the age of vast scientific leaps ahead is over. We have a bit of fundamental physics to go, but there's every reason to think any new laws will have marginal practical applications.
Imagine we could travel anywhere on our planet in an instant creating wormholes using free energy... Oh wait! We can know ? Yes but not for the plebs!