/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3968607

Oh right, I live in the fantasy world where america no longer has a space program but everyone thinks that everything is going according to plan and not having any way of getting a man into orbit means we'll be going warp speed in no time.

You're just deluded by the grandeur promised in science fiction, and like a child, you're mad that santa hasn't made good.

We were supposed to be in the space age now. With over 100k people living and working in space. We aren't. What concrete objective reason do you have to believe that any other predictions of the future will hold water?

>>3949877

Want to play a game of example/counterexample? I bet i have more.

>Gee guys, where are all the zeppelins? Didn't people say airships were the future? So much so that the Empire State building was designed with a mooring tower?

>Those mean ol pessimists are always wrong! but where are the zepps?

inb4 anyone makes a fool of themselves with wild predictions that cannot feasibly happen.

Anything to do with mars, or fusion, or hovertech, or just about anything sci-fi, is just sci-fi.

How can you possibly be certain that you're the first person in history to accurately predict the future?

>>3816683

Science: What is possible

Engineering: What is pragmatic.

Where are our flying cars? Where are the moon bases, High-level AI, interstellar flight, all the things that people over the last 100 years were sure would happen now? They had studies and a lifetime of work in their fields, and they were still wrong.

Aside from faith, what makes you think today's prophets are any less mistaken than yesterday's?

>>3670372

Shit, forgot ma pic.