Worried that Earth may soon suffer from overpopulation and irreversible environmental damage? Worry not, my fellow passengers of Spaceship Earth! In the future, we’ll just hop on our space-faring Mayflowers to go find habitable planets. At least that was the promise of this Sunday comic strip from 1959.
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Need to put out a forest fire? Why not bomb it with chemical-filled missiles? At least that was the plan in 1961.
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Imagine being able to send a Christmas card electronically. Sounds crazy futuristic, right? Well that’s what this Sunday newspaper comic promised to the good people of 1960. Though it was a bit more complicated than the e-cards and emails we send today.
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Palm trees and lower heating bills in Chicago? Bikinis and orange blossoms in Duluth? Back in 1958 these miracles were the promise of tomorrow, thanks to the hot new science of weather control
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What happened in the 1960s when Jetsonian dreams met Duck and Cover fears? You got 1962’s "Walking Machine."
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The Sunday comic strip "Closer Than We Think" was launched in 1958 at the dawn of the Space Race. But the strip’s mission wasn’t just to show Americans what would soon be happening on the moon and beyond. No, the space age would touch every part of American life — from the fuel that would power your driverless car to the dictating machine that would be built into your futuristic office desk
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