#2074: Airplanes and Spaceships

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[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 our first spaceships.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

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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