Objects Launched into Space by Country, 1957–present
From Sputnik to Starlink. The chart that started it all — 14,300 views on Instagram. The Starlink explosion at the end is jaw-dropping.
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From Sputnik to Starlink. The chart that started it all — 14,300 views on Instagram. The Starlink explosion at the end is jaw-dropping.
Sailing ships, steamers, flying boats, Concorde — and the twist: we got slower when Concorde retired in 2003.
Builds steadily for 30 years, then Chernobyl hits. Then Fukushima. Germany closes its last reactor in 2023. China keeps climbing.
Tesla dominates, then BYD overtakes them. The Hongguang Mini EV appears from nowhere. Fisker rises and vanishes.
Both growing at Moore's Law rates for 30 years. Your iPhone 13 is faster than the 1997 world record supercomputer.
Average new-car horsepower has doubled since 1980. 0–60 time has halved. Two lines crossing on a speedometer background.
Intel dominates for 30 years. Samsung challenges. TSMC rises. Then Nvidia explodes past everyone with AI. The chip that changed everything.
True stories from a life in engineering — before the charts, there were the classes.
Electromagnetics II. Toughest course in EE. One allowed cheat sheet. A photocopy machine. And a professor who kept the result on his wall for years.
Two campuses. Same course. Different exam times. A 25-minute bus ride. And a 15-minute window that seemed like the perfect engineering solution — until the results came back.
The computer design course was full. The booking cards were in the bin. Engineering logic said: if they can't refute it, it happened. No space? No problem.
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