Scramjets !!!! It works (When)

"Omar E. Vega" wrote:

>I'm starting to get worried about developing. Imagine: in just 20
years the planes evolved from a fragile bycicle based artifact to
reliable planes. And in only 20 years since the V1 the man reached
the Moon. And now it has passed 35 years !!! since that brilliant
moment and nothing new had happened at all. What's going on?

Science and technology fuel our economy, but the numbers of young people
interested in studying science in America is in sharp decline.

>Are the Americans going to wait for the Chinese to get rich and do
the job for them, next century :)

Yes, I'm afraid so.