[ SECRET POST#1819 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1819 ⌋


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Comments

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

It was a pretty good time. I was in college then, and starving-- but the Cold War had ended and the threat of instantaneous nuclear annihilation of the entire planet that had been hanging over us for my entire life had ended, the economy was up, the Berlin Wall was down, Russia was now a democracy-- and we didn't know how bad the environment was getting yet. Sure, we knew about the rainforests, but no one really thought the entire ecosystem of the whole planet was on the verge of collapse. We were just beginning to do amazing things with DNA, we were gonna unlock the human genome and that was gonna cure everything from cancer to acne.

It really was an extremely positive time, looking back at it.

[feanorian.livejournal.com]

This. Plus, if you were American, you could mostly trust the government, travel was easy, and the country was untouchable. If you were in a tech-savvy area, the Internet was just getting interesting and so many new things were in the works.

I can see why people would want the 90s back.

[starphotographs.livejournal.com]

This!

And you know, maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but it seems like there was more interest in the space program back then. Now it seems like they've just sort of let it rot. Bah. :\

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

Well, the space shuttles were very new and exciting, and then we'd just launched the Hubble space telescope (resulting in a slew of GM jokes about "objects in the mirror may..." after they screwed up the ginat mirror in it ha ha), and then the Mars explorer was just being sent off... And then of course in the late '80s we had the Challenger disaster which threatened to shut down the space program for a while, so when the space program continued that was pretty cool...

And of course satellites were being launched every other week, it seemed... There was just a tonne of stuff going on.

And what's going on now, really? The shuttles have been mothballed, the US isn't really doing too much (Kennedy wanted to have us on Mars by now and really, the main obstacle is the cost), Canada's space program is mostly tied to the States, so now it's mainly up to China and India to carry on until the US gets its replacements sorted out (if it does; sounds like they're trying to move into a private/corporate model over a government funded one) and of course we don't hear so much about what they're doing as we do with the States, so there just really doesn't seem to be as much going on. Mainly it feels, these days, like everything is slowing down and getting turned off, and that there's just the odd probe headed out. It's just not as active and as exciting a time.

[starphotographs.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes! I remember all of that stuff. Good times.