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We should by now have had cars that could levitate and drive themselves, androids that could march and coque samsung j6 silicone make basic decisions, at least one or two colonised planets, and some mind reading capability.

It not like we failed on all fronts, but stock markets and hedge funds do seem to have engaged most of our attention for the last half century. The space race became more of a lazy game of tag. Man hasn ventured any further than the moon, and not even to the moon very many times. coque huawei p30 lite silicone antichoc For better or worse, there are still no manmade structures out there unless you count our space junk and the flags coque samsung s8 hema and debris we planted on our satellite.

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A cure for cancer

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THINGS WE HAVE ACHIEVED

Tourist rockets are being tested

SpaceX Falcon 9 delivers 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Cole Snyder Jersey coque samsung It won be too long before tourists can buy a ticket to (orbit) the moon.

Three private companies are in the race to help tourists escape Earth atmosphere Space X, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, owned by Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos respectively. coque samsung Each has successfully tested unmanned craft.