A vision of the future...

[nacnud]

A vision of the future, from 1970. Memories of the Space Age<br /><br />No wonder power point presentations get such short shrift <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> if only...

 

[tohaki]

That is a fantastic website. If only more of it had materialised.

 

[tomnackid]

If you really want to cry in your beer look at all the O'Neill colony art from the 70s. Some people were calling for colonies with populations of 10,000 by the turn of the century! (That's the turn of the 20th century.)<br /><br />On the other hand before the 60's even the most optimistic space advocates weren't expecting a moon landing before the turn of the century. Maybe the 80s or 90s if you were a real wild-eyed dreamer. In the 20s the majority of scientist and engineers didn't even think space travel of any kind was ever possible. The border between science fiction and reality was not nearly as porous as it is these days!<br /><br />The thing to keep in mind is that all of those dreams represent possibilities, not probabilities. just convincing people that something is possible is more than half the battle. The other half is the boring stuff (to us technophiles anyway)--economics and politics.

 

[spacefire]

that shuttle looks just like the X43. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[henryhallam]

<font color="yellow">That's the turn of the 20th century.</font><br />Who was this, Jules Verne? A bit optimistic !!!

 

[tomnackid]

Unless I'm mistaken the turn of the 20th century refers to the ending of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st. "Turn of" as in turning away from one and into the other.

 

[explorer11]

I wish doing all that was easier than it really is. Wouldn't that be great?! <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" />