The Astronomy Thread

ToeMissile said:

Makes me a little sad (and excited?)to think one day an experience that will be like taking a 2 hr flight today.

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I was thinking that on a recent flight. I'm looking out the window somewhere over Northern Canada at all this majestic frozen wasteland and thinking how this experience was completely unattainable for anyone until the 20th century. Look around and see a hundred other people looking at brainrot on a screen. Then the flight attendant made everyone shut the window shades so people could watch their brainrot better.

People have no idea how good they have it and cast aside things their ancestors would have given a fortune for.

Lambourne said:

I was thinking that on a recent flight. I'm looking out the window somewhere over Northern Canada at all this majestic frozen wasteland and thinking how this experience was completely unattainable for anyone until the 20th century. Look around and see a hundred other people looking at brainrot on a screen. Then the flight attendant made everyone shut the window shades so people could watch their brainrot better.

People have no idea how good they have it and cast aside things their ancestors would have given a fortune for.

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Had a flight from Chicago to Anchorage before entertainment systems in a plane would show where you are. I asked the stewardess if she could tell me where we were with the ice fields and mountains below. She asked the pilot who announced it over the PA. When we deplaned she introduced me to the pilot and he said he flew that route all the time and nobody ever ask what they are looking at.

Back then with luck you might get on a flight that was half full. It wasn't packed every flight like now. On the way back went Anchorage to Seattle to Denver and then to Houston. The flight from Denver to Houston had maybe 7 people on it and I was related to 2 other people on the flight.