What happened to the future?

Why didn't we get the fantastic future we were promised?

In 1962, it was possible for the President of the United States to stand in front of the nation and say 'we choose to go to the moon!' - and for the nation to deliver it 7 years later. At that moment, the future felt limitless.

But today, the US cannot even send a man into low earth orbit without relying on Russian technology (itself a 1960s relic), and has no capacity at all to put a man on the moon, let alone anywhere further afield.

50 years ago, people were told that by now we would be living in underwater cities, driving flying cars and having vacations on the moon - or even Mars.

Instead, when we go on vacation in 2016, we still often board Boeing 747s - a plane designed before the invention of the pocket calculator, and which first flew in 1969 - BEFORE that moon landing. We don't even have supersonic airliners anymore - which we did have in 1976.

We were promised by President Nixon in 1971 that cancer would be cured by the time of the US bicentennial. It didn't happen.

We were told we were entering the Atomic Age - that by the year 2000, a thousand nuclear reactors would be powering America. But today, the US has only 100 nuclear reactors.

What happened? Why didn't that bright future materialise? And how can we go back and rediscover that bright future that we all want?

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Diversity happened.

You're saying that we're not living on Mars right now because of black people?

Moar

In a nutshell: Yeah

You have a pocketcomputer that has access to all of humankinds knowledge and it also can call people from all over the world.

We live in the future.

Suppression of information and technology.

We had electric cars a hundred years ago but that would have destroyed the oil industry.

it would take us thousands of years to replace our infrastructure and and energy sources.

"""Liberals""" happened.

The only really futuristic things that we got over all these years are PCs and Smartphones. I mean sure, both are incredible and unbelievable things but I expected more. Maybe once fusion gets figured out.

Just because the world doesn't look like your cyberpunk flicks doesn't mean it's not amazing.
>a network of interconnected devices that spans across the entire planet and houses the entirety of mankind's knowledge for anyone to access
>a gargantuan machine so big it spans across two countries used to smash together the very building blocks of reality
Just two heavily romanticised examples off the top of my head.

Well, what were the decisions made in the 60's?
>Let's pay for space.
>Let's pay for spades.
>Let's invite some spics.

Which one of these was dropped?

Watch the Kurzgesagt video on CRISPR if you need a quick dose of future optimism.

>Watching pseudo science videos on youtube that don't even explain anything and only use buzzwords.

Presentation and accessibility doesn't change the fact that it is happening.

Yes

war and communism happened

War and communism were the reasons we made such Progress in the First place

>THIS JUST IN; GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN LYING FOR OVER 80 YEARS
MORE AT 11

It's a video that doesn't give out any real information on it. It's literally just some guy babbling for 15 mins about how "IT'S HAPPENING". Which then just creates uninformed numales and redditfags that think they're smart because they watched a 15 minute video of buzzwords and then post it on facebook and create a hypewave based on nothing.

The same shit existed 10 years ago about everything. Flying cars, pills that cure cancer, or immortality.

I'm not denying the fact that crispr exists and works and that it might have some great implications in a decade or too, I'm just stating that these types videos are absolutely horrible, they hype up anything and everything just for the views and money, but just spread misinformation to the massive audience.

niggers and jews

It's a lot more money in the medicine industry.

Jews exist, as long as they exist humans will never advance greatly they will do anything it takes to keep us trapped on this planet.

>What happened to the future?
Kikes stole it from us.

>But today, the US cannot even send a man into low earth orbit without relying on Russian technology (itself a 1960s relic), and has no capacity at all to put a man on the moon, let alone anywhere further afield.

SpaceX, nigga. We're going to Mars in less than 10 years and get to tell the commies to get raped in the ass when Dragon 2 is cleared shortly for manned missions. Also Falcon Heavy is go for first flight around december of this year, it can put 54 tons into a low earth orbit.

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You picked the worst time for this rant famalam, space is BACK baby!

> today

> we're going to Mars in less than 10 years

> TODAY

niggers and hippies

and I'm not joking.

Your pessimism is unwarranted is all I'm saying. Things are looking up.

As to the why of things not getting this way sooner, social inertia and a lack of motivation. humanity get distracted easily and the government-centric nature of some of these projects leave them vulnerable to swings of popular opinion or economic performance. That, and sometimes people get the complexity of things wrong. nixon drank some eager scientist's kooliad about one of the most complex problems in medicine,and fear-mongering and over-regulation hurt the nuclear industry a shit-ton, along with its co-option to making weapons grade shit for much of its existence when thorium based systems are much better in a lot of ways. Supersonic airliners are expensive and have a lot of mechanical issues that make them hard to make much money off of.

It sucks that things didn;t advance as fast as theycould have, but as I said, it's looking up. I suggest you follow the people trying to wake us from our slumber instead of ruminating over why it started in the first place.

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Get that exploration boner going and start saving money, and maybe you can GO TO MARS NIGGER!

You're the one spouting buzzwords man.

I'll concede that it's a video made for laymen but I don't see how I have been misinformed when I went from not knowing what CRISPR was to being aware its something people are working on.

Maybe you should explain what you want to see in a video instead of just assuming the worst about the intents of the creator.

Maybe in afrika....

Scientists get off on telling the mainstream public a bunch of lies about a future that will never come. Here's a few examples of bullshit scientists sell you:

-futuristic life
-automated, smart homes
-human cloning
-automation, robots doing our jobs
-space travel and colonies in other planets
-eternal youth
-theories about multiple universes

It's all lies.

>-automation, robots doing our jobs
>-space travel and colonies in other planets

I would believe you're right if i did not have eyes and a brain. Seriously, what? How can you deny automation or the massive interest corporations have in space exploration?

Step by step

Its happening

The end is coming guys

>Mfw Ahmed the rapefugee looks up the definition of "irony" on his iPhone while raping a German pubescent grill

Automation as in school buses driving themselves or robots taking over most jobs is not happening anytime soon, if ever.

Space exploration can't happen because there is no such thing as outer space.

The only one of these that don't have people actively working on them to make their theories reality is the multiple universes theory, and that has to do with the inherent difficulty in testing for it.

>Space exploration can't happen because there is no such thing as outer space.

So what's outside of the atmosphere? a dome?

>>no such thing as outer space
Okay, you're retarded. No reason to talk to you about anything.

Good goy, keep on believing lies.

>Mfw Tyrone the nigger looks up the definition of "irony" on his blackberry while raping a white american pubescent grill

Triggered much?
>mfw I'm on a vpn

Pretty much, democrats rerouted that money towards welfare a little more each year. Under Obama we don't even have a spacecraft anymore and he seriously told NASA to do Muslim outreach instead of research.

You mad? No need to be so butthurt.

People got too caught up in being progressive, politically correct, and spreading social justice instead of advancing civilization.

(((I wonder)))

>"The cry of bigot is raised most often by bigots."
Nice line. I never got why "tolerance" needs to be top down, a virture of the majority. Isn't it obvious minority groups that don't join the welcoming arms of the dominant culture are the true ethnic loyalists?

The only thing stopping Muslims from dropping the headscarves and start sucking White cock is themselves. I'll be waiting.

muslims and niggers that's why. You let your muslims and niggers get out of control and made the mistake of treating them like humans.

We may very well have never gone to the moon, it could have been a wildly presumptuous statement for JFK to make that could not have been fulfilled so instead decided to use Stanley Kubrick style cinematography to make it happen.

But Assuming that getting to the moon is possible, the real reason for the stagnation of the west is fairly simple and its not diversity nor Russia that is too blame but corruption of politics and corruption of the common man.

NASA got to the moon back when NASA was a highly gov funded institution.

Nowadays lobbyists approach the future candidates with a list of demands and clauses and speeches; formulated by psychologists for the candidate to use in their "capaign". The lobbyists leak files and create media hype which in turn gets their chosen "horse in the race" into the white house or parliament; it does not matter which country in the west you use - the system works across the globe. In return the candidate does whatever they are told to do on penalty of the worst possible media crucifixion they can conjure, digging up any dirt or just making it anew, if that should fail and the candidate starts acting on its own will they would have the means to assassinate an unruly president.

They back both candidates

If they the lobbyists succeed a thousand years from now you can imagine a science fiction scenario where you have an alien race with a caste system, these people plan to be the royal caste, think dune, the tau, naboo etc, that is their plan for earth

The real corruption however is in the masses that allow media outlets to shape their world view, except a tyrannical class system all in return for not having to fight back and risk their lives to end it.

People know their leaders are corrupt yet they do nothing, they know the banks are calling the shots yet they don't take out their money, they know the news is lying to them yet the still watch it and even spout the rhetoric that is presented, fuck the masses.

Socialism happened. Unprecendented levels of government spending that required unprecedented levels of taxation. Taxation kills innovation.

Musk wants to have a human on Mars in 2030.

Ye, the first capitalist to actually have a functioning brain in his head in decades demonstrating what anybody in the top 1% could have easily achieved if they were not completely incompetent, lazy and evil bastards really shows what a great model this is.

>Musk wants to have a human on Mars in 2030.
By 2030. The goal however is 2024.

show papers of scientists predicting such things.

some muslim skitskin banned math 1k years ago in the arabic empire, which led to a huge decrease in scientific research. if it wasn't for this sand nigger we would have way more advanced tek right now. google it fags.

It was never God's will for us to go in that direction.

Simple as that. There is no other explanation.

we're too busy disappearing up our own ass in an effort to make everyone comfortable with their life choices or differences?

Diversity happened and social justice became something people focused on instead of actual progress. We made the silly mistake of valuing equality above opportunity.

Social justice became the loudest group on the planet, so our leaders began redirecting money and resources towards the "poor, disenfranchised, urban youths". This legitimized their claims in the public eye and eventually the very fabric of our culture. Actual, scholarly intelligence and the hard work that goes along with it are no longer appreciated and have taken a back seat to the easy and self-satisfactory feeling of social justice and liberal snobbery. A few generations of this have caused our population to grow dumber and lazier as a result. And the current plague of multiculturalism is making things even worse. We're seriously about to go through another dark age at this rate.

Is pretty cool too.

>actually believing we went to the moon in the 1960's

Ashamed to share a country with someone as utterly retarded as you

>So what's outside of the atmosphere?
The Heliosphere

your smartphone is more powerful than the computers that helped NASA put men on the Moon.

Well if money is any influence on scientific achievement then we have spent billions on muswogs and nignog programs, and that money could have gone on scientific advancement.

You can decide if the billions spent on "equality" and social programs had made a significant and lasting difference to blacks outcomes today.

Religitard detected

Atheist detected

>People know their leaders are corrupt yet they do nothing, they know the banks are calling the shots yet they don't take out their money, they know the news is lying to them yet the still watch it and even spout the rhetoric that is presented, fuck the masses.

If I said that this statement frustrated me, it would be the most colossal understatement of my life.People understand that there is an evil that is completely destroying the fabric of humanity, and instead of eliminating the threat they, instead, allow it to flourish. We, as humans, are fucked and we allowing it to happen.

>we can't go into space because magical space grandpa said so

Maybe the answer to OPs question is we haven't had a big war recently.

At least the cold war kept motivation for innovation high.

We rely on competition among corporations and as profit is their concern it can be limited.

However, when you have two great powers in competition to win over the hearts of the entire world, that is when you get real spectacular advancements.

ok then.

Fun anecdote: in the university I studied, I used to sit in the meetings of the natural science faculty. Towards the end of every year, the guy who's responsible for the finances usually had to tell all the other members of the university that they please please spend the money the state is giving to them, cause else they wouldn't get as much next year. They don't need more money, they already have trouble spending the funds they have.
Not supposed to undermine the point, just funny.

>Why didn't we get the fantastic future we were promised?

Psychopaths don't like true progress. They get sexual gratification from fucking people over.
Government positions drew them like shit draws flies, and they used all the dirty tricks they could to oust the good men in office, and slowly took the reigns.
They now control the spice.

That's what happened. We relied on government too much, and it became the flame that burns the forest rather than the controlled campfire keeping us illuminated.

There are still firefighters out there, but a combo of marxists, reactionaries, and insane fascists are standing in their way, making the fire pretty much impossible to put out now.

So basically, we're left with a single outcome. The fire will eventually consume all but the most prepared and deepest covered life, and from those people, a new forest shall grow.
Most of you are capital-F Fucked, though.

Good luck. We'll be watching.

>projecting this much
>still thinking I'm posting from the US
Prep the bull Hans.

>What happened?
Capitalism

>magical
He's pure love.
>space
He's everywhere.
>grandpa
He's father.

>he says while in Switzerland
Okay, I'll bite. Proof?

We are living in the future.
>nobody gives a shit about race anymore - everyone is equal
>everybody is free to express themselves how they want
>women are free to choose their own path through life
>peace is at an all time high
>even had a fucking black president for 8 years

But keep telling me how the world hasn't progressed since the 60s. Kids from this generation onwards can be whoever they choose to be and that's fucking awesome.

Niggers.

Literally niggers.

The civil rights movement stalled progress across the world, and created societies more focused on political correctness than self improvement.

Now every level of government and private business is infested with retarded, worthless freeloaders (even more than it would be normally), who only have jobs because of the color of their skin or the type of genitals they own.

If the USA had culled their Nigger population in a manner similar to the holocaust of the Jews, nobody would have cared. They probably would have applauded and followed suite desu.

Now it is far too late. There is no turning back. Your parents or grandparents chose dystopia over utopia, because they decided to believe a transparent lie: "diversity is strength".

Diversity is death for tribal apes, and that is what we are. We are at our best when our societies are homogeneous with minor variation, and not a frothing cesspit of genetic dead ends and mental patients.

Why should companies spend billions to make vacations on the moon possible if people keep paying for vacations on the earth. Not worth it

Today everything is evaluated if it's profitable and generates high earnings

>dey spending money on dis and dat and dat while niggas be starving n shieet

>both space projects were funded by tax

Really made me think.

It's where the fucking tax is going.

Why would we wanna turn the moon into a fucking resort?

There's a HUGE monetary drive to go into space.
First company that lassos an asteroid becomes a trillion-dollar asset.

it's impossible to get past the Van Allen belt because of the all radiation, the elites know this that's why they don't give a fuck about space or anything like that

you got trolled by NASA's actors

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>it's impossible to get past the Van Allen belt because of the all radiation
t. codemonkey

If things are profitable and generate earnings its because its getting people products they want to spend their money on. Capitalism gives people what they really want, like mining minerals in space to build amazing technologies, not space vacations.

Lazy people not working and collecting it to spend on rims and grills duh.

Just for the sake because we can. And this was just an example, the same applies why we are not putting a lot of effort in exploring space, the deep sea, etc.
Putting someone on the moon was also useless but the USA did it anyway.

The times where it was just mainly about progress and getting more intelligent are gone now though.

How much radiation are we talking about?

What would be the total absorbed dose for a human traveling through the Van Allen belt at a constant speed of, say, 5km per second, inside a spacecraft with one cubic metre of liquid water held between the outer hull of the vehicle and the crew cabin?

It wasnt useless, it was a show of technological superiority for the soviets. You fucking know nothing.

It's true.

Quality of Life and Freedom are declining overall.

We had our peak 50 years (In Germanys case 75 years) ago.

>Capitalism gives people what they really want
Capitalism makes people really want something useless

>hundreds of manned missions
>less than 10 went further than 400 miles out

magical battery technology!

Burn

Yeah, that useless computer you are typing this out on. They had to market that so hard to make you want it, what a piece of shit.

If Germany won WW2, we'd have colonized planets by now.

Don't ask troofers technical questions.
It ruins their vibes.

Going to the moon is pointless and the only reason anyone brings up pointless space shit is because Neil Degrasse Tyson recited bad poetry at someone inebriated enough to be convinced by bad poetry.

That's the point I'm making you dumbfuck.

Nah I'm thinking more about stuff like the dildo you put up your ass every night. Pretty useless don't you think

Makes me cum so I pay top dollar.

Someone let the retards on the internet

I wonder if they had dildo factories in the soviet union...

No I'd say that's consumerism.