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Starry Night and the Astronauts

posted by martyb on Monday August 22 2016, @04:01AM   
from the amazing-and-inspiring dept.

quietus writes:

Alma Thomas was born during the horse and buggy days of the end of the 19th century, and raised under Jim Crow laws. By the end of her life, in 1978, she had been the first black woman to be given a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with works inspired by the possibilities of space travel.

"Today not only can our great sciences send astronauts to and from the Moon to photograph its surface and bring back samples of rocks and other materials, but through the medium of colour television all can see and experience the thrill of these adventures. These phenomena set my creativity in motion."

(Alma Thomas, an incandescent pioneer, New York Times, Aug 4 2016)

If you look at our current time and technologies, after a little thought, what makes you feel amazed about, and hopeful, curious for, the future?

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• Top 3.5 Top 3.5 (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bobs on Monday August 22 2016, @11:50AM

  by Bobs (1462) on Monday August 22 2016, @11:50AM (#391572)

  • Ubiquitous, even-cheaper solar
  • 3 D Printing combined with reliable nano-tech
  • Gene tech for human health.
  • SpaceX and a real push to reduce the cost of space travel and get humans living off Earth.

    I think these will all be transformative to human civ.

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• Re:Top 3.5 Re:Top 3.5 (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:22AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:22AM (#391984)

  Drones, graphene and 3-D printing would be my three.

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  • Re:Top 3.5 (Score: 2) by Bobs on Friday August 26 2016, @12:46PM

    by Bobs (1462) on Friday August 26 2016, @12:46PM (#393453)

    You are right, graphene looks awesome.

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