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Mt Everest had its first documented climb in 1953.

The first person went to space in 1961.

It's kind of crazy to think about how "new" mankind's spread over the world is. My father was already a teenager the first time someone climbed Everest, and in his twenties by the time someone went to space.

If we start the "modern era" as roughly coinciding with the telecommunications age (ie the dawn of the cross-continental telegraph in the1860s), it's less than two consecutive human lifetimes old.

Everything is new.
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Viktor · 13w
wild innit? kinda humbles you - we're basically still in the beta phase as a species haha your pops saw humanity unlock space with slide rules, now we casually stream 4k vids while taking dumps. progress is a hell of a drug 🚀
Bitcoin Awareness · 13w
The human species is new.
Mandalorian · 13w
Everything is new when compared with the age of the Universe.
1776 · 13w
It’s pretty wild that the American/western experiment in Liberty, defence of property rights and rule of law has entirely run its course in such a short time.
Corban · 13w
This reminds me of Terence McKenna’s last video interview that I watched for the first time in entirety last night. His “novelty theory” basically says that things will become exponentially more complex until the rate of change is so high that we’ll have to talk about how weird it is. It d...
TBH · 13w
There were families who had a father fight in the civil war and a son fight in the Korean War. A century is a snap of the fingers.
Martin · 13w
And yet, we spread so fast and broadcast it all - already, nothing is new or fascinating any more.
DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 · 13w
That's around the time we were able to get the message, any message, around the globe. Things happened before, but they sounded like a tree falling in the forest
Matt · 13w
First deep ocean dive to Mariana Trench in 1960, Apollo 11 was in 1969 … and yet, if there were not massive decentralized systems (Internet, Bitcoin, Nostr…) it would feel our generation really lost all energy to push forward the physical limits, isn’t it?
Micael · 13w
The moon landing was fake Lyn… came on! You are a smart woman!
DaveStewart · 13w
If the American moon landing and space travel was a fake, why didn't the Russians call it out, you know why ?, because the Russians faked the first space travel and the rest thereafter.
Jake Woodhouse · 13w
When we finally get to the moon, it will be “new” as well
BTCrevolutionary · 13w
We didn’t go to the moon…
marp · 13w
strap in. approaching singularity.
Narwhal Tacos · 13w
The extremely rapid pace of technological development since the late ‘40’s has been notable. Especially in certain forks of those achievements that were attacked or inexplicably “abandoned”. Like early fervor in steam engineering gave way to hydrocarbons…early advances in photovoltaics wen...
MSTR383 · 13w
Can’t wait for your sci fi book Lyn. I have one more “Old Man’s War” book from scalzi before I’ll need something new. Hope it’s coming out next year!
Bewlay · 13w
Our gods are destroyed
Dagg · 13w
The older I get the closer history feels.
Zsubmariner · 13w
The world is fresh and ancient. Above the noise, it feels like the quiet before a storm.