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submitted 3 days ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Ithorian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Time to make another deal with aliens to the next big jump

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Photography advanced by a lot in that time.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure people invented flags long time ago.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And you wonder why people think there was a conspiracy.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every conspiracy theory basically starts with, "I don't trust the government, therefore..."

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com -5 points 3 days ago (9 children)

both of them are fake

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You should not have left Reddit.

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 0 points 2 days ago

Yep

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[+] P00ptart@lemmy.world -9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

These are two different tech trees. Rockets had 1000+ years of development to get to this point while aeroplanes had ~30. I hate that this bullshit gets repeated. They are not equivalent in any way.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Came to say this. The Apollo missions are forks of ICBMs.

We should instead show a picture of Robert Goddard next to his 1926 LO2-fuel rocket and then man on the moon and say "These two images are only 43 years apart." It's objectively more impressive because within an average lifetime at any point in history, we went from rockets as fireworks and weapons to landing on the moon. But it also requires people to know who Robert Goddard is and what he invented.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

I'm hoping this future post of yours makes it to the front page so many can learn.

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 7 points 3 days ago

It is a bit different sending a paper rocket into the air and successfully bringing people to the moon.

I don't think anyone is arguing that rockets started development 66 years before humans reaching the moon. It is just that it is a rapid development from barely being possible for humans to fly to suddenly (66 years later) bouncing around on the moon.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure flight and orbital mechanics have some overlap.

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