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 Title text: Despite having now taken three months longer than the airplane people, we're making disappointingly little progress toward the obvious next stage of vehicle: The Unobtanium-hulled tunneling ship from the 2003 film 'The Core.' |
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- [A timeline is shown with three dots on it. Each dot has a label beneath the dot, and the two intervals between the dots are also labeled, with lines indicating which dots are belonging to that label.]
- Dot 1:
- December 17, 1903
- First human airplane flight
- Dot 2:
- April 12, 1961
- First human spaceflight
- Dot 3:
- Today
- Interval 1-2: 57 years 4 months
- Interval 2-3: 57 years 7 months
- [Caption beneath the frame:]
- Spaceships are now older than airplanes were when we flew out first spaceships
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