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[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The chariot lasting as high tech for 3800 years has some part to do with the dark ages.....

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 3 points 34 minutes ago

The dark ages weren't dark. Humanity didn't just stop for 1000 years, you know?

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

We also created nukes and religion. So there's that too.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Bunch of real hoopy froods there

[–] Undisputedscoop@discuss.online 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Check out those prosperity churches. They are like nukes for grifters. They are like gambling on getting free shit with god while the priest gets filthy rich in gods place.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

The Babylonians knew a * b = 1/4 * ( (a+b)^2 - (a-b)^2 ), and and used tables of 1/4 * x^2 to do multiplication by addition. It took three thousand years for Napier to discover modern logarithms. The slide rule was invented eight years later.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget the weird rocks that, when refined and enriched, it gets a bit of... well you know...

[–] Lommy@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 7 hours ago

MFW I’m in a technology singularity racing full bore toward its conclusion.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 31 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

A man named Peter, who had escaped slavery, reveals his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while joining the Union Army in 1863.

Yup, that's far alright:

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Side note: ICE now has a bigger budget than the FBI, DEA and Bureau of Prisons put together.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

They're gonna be working hard to justify that budget. Things are going to get a whole lot worse for our American friends. :(

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately we’re just getting started on building the sanctuary districts, sure would be nice if we could just skip WW3

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 51 minutes ago

Skipping it is exactly what should be done when it is started. Refuse to fight under any circumstances.

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry with all due respect I am curious how this ties to the topic of the post? I feel like I'm missing something.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

We're bringing slavery back. Edit: not that it ever went away. You're allowed to enslave people as punishment under the 13th amendment. Hence the prison industrial complex.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

Yes exactly. Maybe soon we'll be inventing the airplane and the dirigible?

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Right and I agree with that, but unless my client is bugged this post is about technological innovation boom in the 1900s?

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

My grandmother was an adult through that 66-year period. Lived to be 99. She rode to town on a horse as a kid and took trips on jets before she died.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The Brooklyn Bridge and the battle of Little Bighorn happened the same year. And there were Native Americans who fought in the battle that were still alive to see man walk on the moon. So in the span of one lifetime we went from Custard’s last stand, to one giant leap for all mankind.

[–] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Good point, but it's "Custer", not " Custard".

Although I kinda like the idea of a trembling, gelatious shape being the asshole that led the charge at Little Bighorn...

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And only 30 years after that, we're surfing the interwebz, sailing down the data highway at the speed of light. I'm running out of metaphors to chain together...

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

And just 20 years later we have destroyed the concept of truth. What a time to be alive.

[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Do you mean the actual philosophy of truth or do you just mean that we currently have a cult of personality spewing lies and people en masse accept it as truth?

Because I've heard arguments for both.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago

One of the Wright brothers managed to live to see the end of WWII. Imagine the weird janky flying machine you and your dead brother designed in a bicycle shop in Dayton is being used to decimate Europe while boats full of the things are redefining naval warfare across the whole of the pacific before one drops a weapon so powerful that it becomes the basis of mutually assured destruction

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 hours ago

I've thought from time to time about how being able to see significant societal change in a person's lifetime is a very recent phenomenon. For many thousands of years, things stayed pretty much the same from birth to death unless you happened to live though a significant event. It's neat that I've gotten to witness change in a way that one would have to time travel to experience in the past, but monkey's paw, the change isn't always good...

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Now picture it without fossil fuels giving us a 100:1 EROEI

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yep. Energy is what we need to accomplish all of this.

Happy to be working on alternatives to fossil fuels.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I feel like the pictures over-exaggerate the difference a bit. The wright flyer was literally made by two people in their spare time while the space program was around 4% of all federal spending and had almost half a million people working on it in some capacity.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

Just a nitpick, the fastest transportation for thousands of years were boats.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

It's actually falling

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 58 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

It’s easy to see why people thought we would be a lot more futuristic by now.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

We killed our trajectory by shutting down nuclear investment.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 4 hours ago

We killed our trajectory because the cold war ended and we were no longer engaged in an arms race involving rockets. Once capitalism figures out how to exploit space for infinite growth we'll get back on track assuming we don't great filter ourselves first.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 34 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

i have a little tablet in my pocket that gives me access to the sum total of all human knowledge and can contact anyone else more or less anywhere on/around the planet for instant voice communication.

We can take organs out of dead people and put them in living people and have them survive.

I can be anywhere on the planet within 48 hours

We have cars that can drive themselves

We have robots being controlled live(ish) on mars

We have planes that can stay airbourne indefinately

And there's many more examples

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 12 hours ago

Gene editing we did NOT see coming this soon.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Forget the moon. We're all within a few generations of the first people who had access to indoor toilets on a mass scale.

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