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Where we're going, we don't need roads. ...Oh, that was misleading. We're not going to the future. We're going to space. Sorry for any disappointment.
Transcript
- 00:00
by the 1950s humanity figured it only had one more place to go.
- 00:07
Kalamazoo. what? No who wrote that this is? why you should never let the interns do
- 00:12
anything around here. schmuck. not Kalamazoo space. space was the actual [businesswoman gives presenation]
- 00:18
answer we were looking for. home of eternal cold darkness and intelligent
- 00:23
beings with a penchant for giving out free probing colonoscopies. yeah aliens
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- 00:29
might not have been impressed but we Earthlings had seriously come a long way
- 00:32
by the time the 1950s rolled around. in fact we'll just go ahead and shoot this
- 00:38
one right here transportation technology was spectacularly advanced. yeah - - no
- 00:44
we weren't beaming each other up Scotty not quite yet we still got a long way to
- 00:48
go on that one but we've come a long way from the hunter-gatherer days when our
- 00:52
main source of transportation was running or walking for those not in a [caveman walks]
- 00:58
rush but by the 1950s Jets could take us across the ocean in a few hours.
- 01:02
more and more Americans owned cars there was a massive national highway system
- 01:07
and heavy goods were shipped by trains and steam ships. with a little bit of
- 01:11
money humans could go anywhere on the planet in less than a day
- 01:14
so just because tootin it was so fun the first time we'll do it again.
- 01:19
transportation technology had come a long way, but humans had one giant leap
- 01:25
left. and it wasn't Kalamazoo. space final frontier. well we had to explore strange
- 01:30
new worlds seek out new life and civilizations and yes boldly go where no
- 01:35
man or woman has gone before. Shatner would be disappointed if we didn't.
- 01:40
in 1961 the first human was sent into space. by 1969 Neil Armstrong had played
- 01:46
golf on the moon. even though most people on the planet won't get within a hundred [man walks on the moon]
- 01:50
miles of a space shuttle the era of space travel had opened new doors for
- 01:55
Humanity as a whole. if we want to fly into space pointing our bowling airliner
- 01:59
up and pressing the gas pedal isn't quite gonna work. there's no air in space
- 02:04
and a puny jet engine isn't strong enough to overcome gravity. anyway what
- 02:08
we needed was a rocket. easy-peasy right? actually
- 02:12
at all opposite of that Hardy party. lots of different guys around the world
- 02:16
experimented with different fuels nozzles and materials to build rockets
- 02:21
that might be able to get a heavy hunk of metal into space. by 1926 Robert
- 02:26
Godard had managed to find the magic combination a certain kind of hourglass [rocket under construction pictured]
- 02:31
shaped nozzle and liquid fuel. over the next two decades. Rockets got bigger and
- 02:36
better and people started to think seriously about getting into space which
- 02:41
is impressive considering we have to think seriously about whether or not
- 02:44
we're motivated to move off the couch to use the bathroom. [child eyes the bathroom]
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