I certainly don't envy the state science was in for the thousands of years before we could even accurately model the motion of everyday objects, but on the other hand science is no longer relegated to rich fail sons dropping heavy objects and timing how quickly they fall. Now that there are vast numbers of extremely intelligent people dedicating their careers to figuring this out, you'd think we'd see faster progress. I guess we've just picked all the low hanging fruits by now.
See and that is where I disagree. In the U.S. we've gone from everyone with a potential interest in the hard sciences being able to take and afford taking the time to drop heavy objects and timing how quickly they fall, even if there is no obvious monetary value, BACK to only if you are a rich fail-son with an intense interest in the hard sciences can you take the time and money to drop heavy objects and timing how quickly they fall, but THIS TIME it is normally for a corporation to patent the gravitational formula.
We're literally in the middle of societal devolution.
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Right, I just think it's weird how long we've been stuck on this same understanding.
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I certainly don't envy the state science was in for the thousands of years before we could even accurately model the motion of everyday objects, but on the other hand science is no longer relegated to rich fail sons dropping heavy objects and timing how quickly they fall. Now that there are vast numbers of extremely intelligent people dedicating their careers to figuring this out, you'd think we'd see faster progress. I guess we've just picked all the low hanging fruits by now.
See and that is where I disagree. In the U.S. we've gone from everyone with a potential interest in the hard sciences being able to take and afford taking the time to drop heavy objects and timing how quickly they fall, even if there is no obvious monetary value, BACK to only if you are a rich fail-son with an intense interest in the hard sciences can you take the time and money to drop heavy objects and timing how quickly they fall, but THIS TIME it is normally for a corporation to patent the gravitational formula.
We're literally in the middle of societal devolution.
Absolutely in the US, yes, but I was thinking about it from a more global perspective.