Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
by koolba on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:06PM
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> The Apple II was introduced 41 years ago.
This one makes me feel old.
Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
by code_duck on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:16PM
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Periodically, I realize that the 80s are now as far back as the 50s were when I was growing up in the 80s. So also, the 50s now as far back as the 20s were then.
Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
by lisper on Friday May 11, 2018 @09:06PM
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Brace yourself. The 20's are comin' 'round the mountain.
Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
by code_duck on Saturday May 12, 2018 @09:40AM
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I feel like we’ve had lots of 20s lately... it’s the 30s that I’m concerned about.
Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
by IanDrake on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:37PM
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Cool list. Unfortunately slavery has not ended yet. It is still practiced in parts of the world.
Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
by lisper on Friday May 11, 2018 @09:04PM
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Fixed.
Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
by jon_richards on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:32PM
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Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1979/
The oldest surviving human writings date back to about 5000 years ago.
The classic Greek philosophers and mathematicians (Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras) lived about 2500 years ago.
Ptolemy lived about 2000 years ago.
Copernicus lived about 500 years ago.
Newton published Principia 331 years ago.
Darwin published Origin of Species 159 years ago.
Slavery in the U.S. formally ended 153 years ago.
The Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk 115 years ago.
Einstein published general relativity 103 years ago.
Alan Turing published "On computable numbers" 82 years ago.
The first atomic bomb was detonated 73 years ago.
Bell's theorem was published 54 years ago.
The Apple II was introduced 41 years ago.
The Aspect experiment (the first experimental test of Bell's theorem) took place 36 years ago.
The Macintosh was introduced 34 years ago.
The first exoplanet was discovered 26 years ago.
Y Combinator graduated its first class of startups 13 years ago.
The iPhone was introduced 11 years ago.
Gravity waves were first detected 3 years ago.
But nothing at all interesting has happened since then. ;-)