>>1943556Nah, space travel only got off the ground at all because of a pissing contest with the soviets and it's so incredibly expensive and unprofitable that even superpowers can only really dabble in it. Shit like cell phone satellites is about the only profitable thing anyone's ever figured out how to do in space. Not to mention the ongoing cultural enrichment of the west is slowly diluting the average IQ so honestly we're probably at the high point of human technological achievement right now and it's only downhill from here.
