I get a certain degree of utopian optimism. But “oh man, if only the USSR were still around we’d have light speed human transit by the mid-90s” is a step removed from insisting we should have Time Travel by now.
I’m not saying it was realistic or that it would have happened if the USSR were still around. I’m saying what the perspective of an average person uninvolved in any of the processes would have been. Of course they would have been overly optimistic.
No you can’t, because speed of R&D isn’t the same thing as speed of travel.
You’re just doing this shit
I get a certain degree of utopian optimism. But “oh man, if only the USSR were still around we’d have light speed human transit by the mid-90s” is a step removed from insisting we should have Time Travel by now.
I’m not saying it was realistic or that it would have happened if the USSR were still around. I’m saying what the perspective of an average person uninvolved in any of the processes would have been. Of course they would have been overly optimistic.