>>213695156
>same vibes. We're losing a lot of stuff we used to take granted can no longer be replicated. And if we're talking the West stuff like nuclear power plants, high-speed rail are also lost tech
We didn't lose the technology.
We could recreate everything on that picture. It's just a matter of money and getting the right people in charge who actually care.
For example, we have several major companies, including Nasa, making space rockets.
NASA is bloated, slow to innovate, extremely traditional, and is run like a typical government agency with lots of wasted money. Their current rocket (The SLS rocket program) has suffered tons of delays, and is just an modernized version of their 1970s rockets.
Boeing's rocket program is rather...bad. Their company culture is OBSESSED with cutting costs, pushing out products quickly without following safety guidelines (look at their planes crashing), firing their quality control inspectors, and using questionable engineers with questionable educational overseas backgrounds from India.... has led to their rockets suffering tons of delays and malfunctions during tests. Most recently Astronauts sent to the International Space station on Boeing rockets were only meant to stay for several days but ended up being trapped for months because their Boeing rocket malfunctioned. Elon Musk's Space X had to rescue them.
Blue Origin (owned by Jeff Bezos founder of Amazon) is basically a vanity project for the billionaire. Jeff is obsessed with comparing himself to Elon Musk. Development of their rockets has been slow. And Jeff is obsessed with just sending his celebrity friends into orbit for publicity stunts rather than doing anything important.
Space X is the only rocket company delivering results. Love him or hate him, Elon's Musk's hyper obsession with space had made Space X hyper innovative making stuff like drone rockets, self landing rockets, and reusable rockets to save money. They deliver real results.