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.

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

The Babylonians knew a * b = 1/4 * ( (a+b)^2 - (a-b)^2 ), 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.

Time wise, the moon landing is located roughly in the middle between the first image, and now. It happened almost 60 years ago (59).

We have since invented the internet, and a lot of great ways to waste our time

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

There is no individual. There is only network. System. Systems create. They output. They produce. They produce well and tremendously when the system is healthy. Make the system healthy for once. I mean again.

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

It's been 53 years since we stopped sending humans to the moon. Now we have the world wide web, touch-screens, voice recognition, human simulcra, and CRISPR.

We had flight before airplanes! Why do people just ignore lighter than air travel lmao. Yes, planes are more impressive, but it wasn't like BAM plane BAM rockets.

And now there are flat earthers and anti vaxxers. Everything going backwards.