<story><title>Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/sending-tiny-spacecraft-to-alpha-centauri</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robodale</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;stories&amp;quot; like these I would read as a kid very early 80&amp;#x27;s, probably in Popular Mechanics magazines or similar.&lt;p&gt;Depicted in these magazine articles and artist renditions: in the future (certainly by the 2020s!), we will have bases on the Moon, maybe even Mars, and rotating space stations... all the while wearing stylish futuristic fashions (yet still looking very much 70&amp;#x27;s), the women sipping from glasses of champagne and laughing to each other while in the background the men play some yet-to-be-invented handball game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_0w8t</author><text>In 1990 when I was finishing school I bet with my classmate that there would be a permanent Moon base in 2010. As the result my much more practical buddy got 1500$ from his investment into sceptictical thinking.</text></comment>
<story><title>Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/sending-tiny-spacecraft-to-alpha-centauri</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robodale</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;stories&amp;quot; like these I would read as a kid very early 80&amp;#x27;s, probably in Popular Mechanics magazines or similar.&lt;p&gt;Depicted in these magazine articles and artist renditions: in the future (certainly by the 2020s!), we will have bases on the Moon, maybe even Mars, and rotating space stations... all the while wearing stylish futuristic fashions (yet still looking very much 70&amp;#x27;s), the women sipping from glasses of champagne and laughing to each other while in the background the men play some yet-to-be-invented handball game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>Hahah yes, for years I saw these pictures (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;L5_Society&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;L5_Society&lt;/a&gt;) and developed unrealistic expectations of human space exploration.</text></comment>