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    I’m still sometimes amazed of our modern technology while my little ones more or less ignore it. But when I showed them a telefone with a dial and a cable and told them that I could not move it around they would not believe me at first.

    Like the man in the comic said, “uncanny”.

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    It’s fascinating to see how a comic from 1912 still holds up today. Also I didn’t know they had ‘colored moving pictures’ that early, I always thought Wizard of Oz was the first one in 1939. Turns out 1908 was the year the first color film came out. Neat!

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    I used to lament how my nieces and nephew would never be able to appreciate the modern internet because they grew up with broadband. Now I don’t think about it cause the idea itself has got old.

    That said, I like this comic and saved a copy because it’s a historical artifact. I love history. Thanks for posting.

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      Don’t worry. If the recently discovered superconductors at room temperature lk-99 is real they’ll be visiting mars.

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        I’m not a materials scientist, can you please explain how room temperature superconductors eventually leads to Mars colonization? Serious question. I hear a lot about how it’ll change society, but it just seems to be “existing tech but slightly better” from what I’ve read.

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          My take on it is that it does improve existing tech, but by a lot. That makes whole new use cases possible. Consider long-distance power transmission.

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          I am not a material scientist either and my knowledge is extremely limited so here’s a discussion with people far more knowledgeable explaining everything : https://feddit.de/post/2121990

          From that thread, one of the techs it may lead to or vastly improve is a Railgun like launch systems, nuclear fusion, and i think i read somewhere that it can help make artificial gravity a thing.

          One other thing is that a lot of our cutting edge technology rely on using superconductors that are cooled to extremely cold temps using helium and a room temp superconductors would mean that these cutting edge tech could be available for everyone.

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    I read a lot of fantasy which is generally in a medieval setting.

    Sometimes I’ll just stop and appreciate that I can turn a handle and get limitless clean drinking water, or that I drive 35 miles to work every day, which would normally be an all-day trip.

    Not to mention things like instant long distance communication.

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      Just a few hundred years ago they would freaking be amazed to know you can videochat to someone at the other end of the world while traveling at high speed in the air and eating food out of season.

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    Kind of fascinated by the subtle linguistic differences in this comic. Mainly saying “See the…” instead of “Look at that…”

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    It’s funny, we basically have magic now

    I can talk to anyone, miles away instantly, anywhere on earth. It’s mental. But it’s totally normal for us to make phone calls.

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      My wife and I were just mentioning the other day how we can have video chats with family half way around the world, for free. When we were kids making a long distance call to someone a few counties away was a big deal and we didn’t talk long because it would cost too much. Wild stuff.

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    This comic seems depressing once you realise a plausible reason is because the wife never gets out of the house much compared to the husband to the wife gets excited while the husband has already seen it