this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
789 points (98.6% liked)

Technology

69098 readers
4321 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
789
China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
94 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uhh we've had helicopters since the 30s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter

[โ€“] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

True, but they weren't really used much as flying cars till later. I might be wrong on exactly when they moved from military to "rich transport to the race track", however.