(Last) Weekly Roundup: Blurred By The Dark Fog Of Britain's Domestic Politics Edition
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We're a little short on actual scientific progress lately, aren't we? Oh sure, the coding sweatshops of the Far East turn out a million-plus new "apps" a year, and today's cars have much bigger LCD screens than their immediate predecessors, but consider the following: The remarkably underwhelming F-35 fighter plane began development in 1992, flew for the first time in 2006, and began operations (of a sort) in 2013. That's a twenty-one-year timeline. Now think about the fact that the X-15 started poking around Mach 5 and Mach 6 in 1961, after a first flight in 1959. What's the state-of-the art look like in 1940? Why, it's the Mach 0.6 Supermarine Spitfire, which had set world speed records during civilian development five years prior. In other words, airplanes got
(Last) Weekly Roundup: Blurred By The Dark Fog Of Britain's Domestic Politics Edition
(Last) Weekly Roundup: Blurred By The Dark…
(Last) Weekly Roundup: Blurred By The Dark Fog Of Britain's Domestic Politics Edition
We're a little short on actual scientific progress lately, aren't we? Oh sure, the coding sweatshops of the Far East turn out a million-plus new "apps" a year, and today's cars have much bigger LCD screens than their immediate predecessors, but consider the following: The remarkably underwhelming F-35 fighter plane began development in 1992, flew for the first time in 2006, and began operations (of a sort) in 2013. That's a twenty-one-year timeline. Now think about the fact that the X-15 started poking around Mach 5 and Mach 6 in 1961, after a first flight in 1959. What's the state-of-the art look like in 1940? Why, it's the Mach 0.6 Supermarine Spitfire, which had set world speed records during civilian development five years prior. In other words, airplanes got