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Originally Posted by crockett
For thousands of years man worked with basic hand tools and in roughly 100 years we have advanced faster than we advanced in the previous 1000 combined. You think we can continue to do so, or will we eventually get stuck at some point and not be able to keep advancing at such a rapid pace?
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I think we are already at that point. That's not to say we still won't advance just not at the same pace. Take something like planes. From 1903-1953 we went from the Wright brothers wooden crappy plane that could barely get 5 feet off the ground and go 500 feet to jet engines. Have planes adavanced that much since 1953? No. Would the learning curve of someone flying a jet fighter in 1953 to trying to learn to fly a moden jet fighter be as hard as taking a pilot form WWI in 1918 and teaching him to fly a 1950's jet? No. We sent men to the moon 39 years ago. We still don't have the technology to make manned spacecraft go much faster than we did then.