You know it's really interesting on how fast the RATE of scientific discovery is. Considering that most of it occured within the last 500 years. Humanity's been around for thousands of years. There's definitely an accelleration factor in human knowledge that historians/anthropologists can look into.
My bet is that capitalism, improved information dissemination technology, and the scientific analytical method had a lot to do with it.
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Originally posted by mike503
i disagree. unless you want to say 230,000,000 years is still "enough time" i guess there's not many things we can fathom THAT unimaginable.. but going the speed of light, turning the galaxy into a star wars / star trek type of galaxy, the ability to transport molecules from one space to another ("beam me up scotty"..)
i'd say a good model for those far-fetched ideas that could challenge your point would be right out of current movies 
man can IMAGINE a lot... do you really think man could invent a "Force" like in star wars? some sort of extra-sensory power that people can harness across the universe? that one would be quite challenging. maybe given enough radiation over time a group of people could.. or at least think they could communicate using this force..
material things, concepts, etc.. could be invented, given time (perhaps LOTS of it) but i think the true key is the things that man has imagined in movies that are not tangible..
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