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A chance?
Are those VR goggles?
I'd guess pilot goggles rather than VR
Hasn't this been ongoing since airplanes were invented?
I once had a similar thought: if we were to build stations/cities on the moon, you’d likely be able to see the light from them when they’re in shadow.
This would be kind of cool, but imagine you don’t know about people building cities on the moon and all you see are these glowing lines spreading across the moon. You’d probably think the moon was breaking apart or something. I’d imagine some “uncontacted tribes” would feel like it’s a sign of the end of the world.
On an unrelated note, this will be my last comment from lemm.ee
Such a fantastic movie! I remember watching it a bunch as a young kid, and saw it more recently as an adult. Love it!
I could be wrong but I do remember reading somewhere that after ww2 there have been instances in pacific islands of native people standing on old runways doing the flag stances in hopes it brings in a plane.
Says someone who will remove belts, shoes, and all metal objects and wait for hours to get the chance to sit inside of one.
Our maybe they treat airplanes as mystical objects used for fortune telling and other magical and religious purposes. That’s how stars and planets were treated before we figured out what they really are.
Long ago, medicine, chemistry, alchemy, astronomy and astrology were just one big mess. People used that amalgamation for all the purposes you could imagine.
Astrology is still a big mess and shouldn't deserve a place in a list with real science.
And so is alchemy. Useful and useless concepts were intertwined at the time, and it took centuries figure out what to keep and what to discard. Well, some individuals still held on to the trash ideas, while the rest of the world moved on.
This is indeed what I had mind
Many??
The opening scene of Star Trek Into Darkness explores this very idea
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