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[–] realitista@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fossil fuels are a hell of a drug.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem with materials like oil, lead, asbestos, etc. is that they’re really fucking good at what they do.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago

Refined iron is a helluva drug

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

otoh, people in both eras used gas powered cars, telephones, telegraphs, and manual typewriters. They could both go to movies, ride trains, and take ocean voyages.

A person from 1903 would need a few days to adapt themselves to 1969 technology.

But someone from 1969 coming into 2025 would be lost. Most people in 1969 didn't use credit cards, and had never seen an ATM. They used rotary phones and antenna TV.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There was this graph about the time between major inventions, going back to agricultural stuff 10.000 years ago, and it like halvened each X years quite reliably, we are in the part where in some years it might touch like minutes. Interesting.

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100 years from now we will have unlearned all of that.

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