• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I picked up this old Star wars book from the late 70s, it’s a kid’s book about space.

    There’s a page where C3PO points out that humans will have habitable space cities on the moon and Mars by the year 2000!

    I still get a kick out of that, and how hopeful yet unrealistic we are when looking at the future

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      2 months ago

      When I was around six, so around 1998-1999 I got an Encyclopedia of tech and science and that talked about moonbases too.