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It’s mind blowing that we can see photos almost 200 years old. Had the technology been invented a little earlier and we could have had pictures of Napoleon or e
by srge 8y ago
It’s mind blowing that we can see photos almost 200 years old. Had the technology been invented a little earlier and we could have had pictures of Napoleon or even of the French Revolution.
- culot 8y agoIt's those 2000 year old photos that I hanker for. :) 200 years ago is magical, 2000 years ago would be incredible. Oh, to peruse the stinky streets of Herculaneum! Gosh, I hope humanity can keep it up for another 2000 years, keeping out heritage and history well-recorded.
- modzu 8y agowell we have something better than photos from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians -- sculpture! ex. the bust of nefertiti (~1345 BC)
- agumonkey 8y agoor a mummy
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoArtists rendition. When I look at the bust of Nefertiti I like to imagine Nefertiti saying something like "destroy it, make the nose a little smaller, then execute the artist".
- kqr 8y agoTo be fair, that'd just as likely be true of a photograph as well. People in the digital age forget how much artistic freedom is granted by staging a photograph and later processing it in the darkroom.
- dogsh1t 8y agoPerhaps one day daylight "bent" by a sufficiently strong black hole and turned back toward the Earth can be collected and analyzed revealing pre-historic and possibly even ancient conditions of the world. Of course, this would be birds-eye, but who can fathom the ability of light to be analyzed by sensors developed several millennia hence. Man may one day obtain images of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, flocks of pterosaurs migrating, or something as detailed as Socrates being led off to prison for his execution.