Won't happen in my lifetime...

[stek]

And..

[Cliphead]

Did no-one read my Apollo 20 thread a while back?

Waffle...

Is Lewis Carrol writing your script?

[stek]

Is Lewis Carrol writing your script?

No! Andy Carroll is, and he's no good at that either!

[d000hg]

In your lifetime, your lifetime might be artificially extended substantially.

[Old Greg]

World peace.

But on the plus side, TimberWolf could be crowned Miss Moon Base.

[MrMark]

• Sorry, but Ipads just don't make up for all that.
  20 years ago no one had mobile phones, your camera could only take 36 photos and then you had to wait for them to be developed, and you had to pay for the rubbish ones. There was no internet, no youtube, no mp3 player that could hold more music than you will ever listen to. You couldn't Skype your family in Australia, watch TV programs of your choice when you wanted to, send a photo to your grandparents by email, work from home etc etc.
  
  I don't like a lot that happens now, but I wouldn't go back.

Fair points. Better transport now, better health service etc. End of a fair chunk of the Iron Curtain (although it still looks grim in certain ex Soviet Union countries). Pubs open all day (when they've not actually been closed down). A lot has improved. But we seem to have lost the future, innit?

[Doggy Styles]

I believe they went to the Moon, but I don't believe they came back. I haven't yet fully fleshed out this conspiracy theory.

I don't believe they went, but I believe they came back.

I'm also still working on the details of my theory.

[dang65]

It's time we moved on from this obsession with moonbases and supersonic travel and so on. In the 1950s, that was the vision of the future. Then it happened. Now, for us, it's a memory of the past. You might as well complain that no one goes sailing across the Atlantic in little wooden ships to colonise South America any more. Or that no one is building watermills these days. It's been done and we're spending our time and money on other things now.

[Doggy Styles]

You might as well complain that no one goes sailing across the Atlantic in little wooden ships to colonise South America any more.

Good point. Now they sail the other way to colonise us.

[Sysman]

20 years ago no one had mobile phones, your camera could only take 36 photos and then you had to wait for them to be developed, and you had to pay for the rubbish ones. There was no internet, no youtube, no mp3 player that could hold more music than you will ever listen to. You couldn't Skype your family in Australia, watch TV programs of your choice when you wanted to, send a photo to your grandparents by email, work from home etc etc.

To nitpick, there was internet back then, but it was expensive and only a minority had access to it. Agreed that the web came later. The web would certainly have made the boredom of bench time more bearable back then.

There wasn't the feeling that your privacy was being constantly eroded.