Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc...
by r3trohack3r on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:00PM
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> cavemen to today's technology in only 10000-50000 years.
Honestly more impressive is us shedding the 4 element theory of nature and the infallible ancient knowledge of Greece in the mid 1600’s (The Sceptical Chymist was published in 1661). We went from a fairly static view of knowledge to seriously considering colonizing mars in 400 or so years. Human growth isn’t linear and we are pretty far to the right on an exponential curve. The thing about sitting on an exponential curve as far to the right as we are is a few steps (a few 100 years) can easily eclipse the total sum of all human progress so far.
Honestly more impressive is us shedding the 4 element theory of nature and the infallible ancient knowledge of Greece in the mid 1600’s (The Sceptical Chymist was published in 1661). We went from a fairly static view of knowledge to seriously considering colonizing mars in 400 or so years. Human growth isn’t linear and we are pretty far to the right on an exponential curve. The thing about sitting on an exponential curve as far to the right as we are is a few steps (a few 100 years) can easily eclipse the total sum of all human progress so far.