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You're right, but still don't underestimate just how CRAZY change was before this. In 1800 nobody had ever travelled faster than by horse or sail. By the 1850s
by dash2 5y ago
You're right, but still don't underestimate just how CRAZY change was before this.
In 1800 nobody had ever travelled faster than by horse or sail. By the 1850s, they are laying telegraph cables across the Atlantic.
Young Winston Churchill witnessed one of the last cavalry charges. Old Churchill saw the first atom bomb.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoMay 10, 1869 saw the completion of the transcontinental railroad across North America. July 20, 1969 saw the first human on the moon. 100 years, two months, and 10 days.
- WJW 5y agoWe are still on track to be on Mars on or before 2069 though, and might have a permanent moon base by then. Even since the moon launch humanity has built several more-or-less permanent bases in space, increased its space-industrial base by hundreds of times and set up an interplanetary comms network. Sure I'd like it to go even faster but I don't think it's going all that slowly. For someone reading a history book in the year 3500 these past 5 decades are all very close together. It's not like steam trains exploded out of the gates 2 years after the the first steam engine was used to drain coal mines in England, that also took several decades to spread to the general public.