• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Look at the earliest airplanes. Little things made out of cotton and balsa that couldn’t outrace a strong horse.

    Look at the earliest video games.

    edit = I’m not a Bezos fanboy, but if we’re going to have space travel there are going to be stunts, just like there were back in barnstormer days.

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      8 months ago

      Planes have a fucking destination and are designed to move volumes of people from A to B, and still can’t compete with rail over 1000km distances (see: France).

      Video games were designed to be replayable and accessible to the masses, running on the common hardware at the time.