bostwickenator

bostwickenator t1_itz1a90 wrote

I think if ITER works it will be a similar watershed moment for a lot of people. The implications would be significant.

But I don't think there can be any technological achievement which resonants with millennia of human wonderings quite like the moon landing did. That was something you could explain to a Roman and they'd understand the significance of.

If I could postulate anything without feasibility being important I'd say a step change in human life spans. Something like "immortality" say another healthy hundred years arriving all at once.

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bostwickenator t1_ism9fyf wrote

But the distance to Boston is unimaginably big as well, there was no Panama canal either. Both this and sailing for Antarctica seem like terrible ideas. What's really odd is they didn't use domestic sources of ice/snow or sail to New Zealand and source it from there. There are or were many glaciers less than a mile from the west coast of NZ.

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