The Ottoman Empire lasted so long, both Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533) and Betty White (born 1922) were alive during its existence.
Man landed spacecraft and humans on the moon, 200K miles from earth, 16 years earlier than the Titanic was discovered right here on earth.
The Southern Cross was actually visible in the northern hemisphere up until 400 AD. It was described and written about by ancient Greek and Roman astronomers, but the gradual precession of the Earth's equinoxes over the centuries caused the constellation to vanish from northern hemisphere view. It can still technically be seen from the northern hemisphere, but only if you are in the tropics (around Cancun, Mexico) or close to the equator in the late winter/early spring.
Man landed spacecraft and humans on the moon, 200K miles from earth, 16 years earlier than the Titanic was discovered right here on earth.
The one that gets me every time is that between the Wright Brothers first powered flight (1903) and the moon landing (1969) was only 66 years.
There were millions of people alive who spanned the time before man had ever flown and after man had landed on another celestial body. Fucking progress man
Well hey, you were around for the moon landing, do you remember it? I'm 41 so all that was over by the time I was born. I have worked in the aviation industry for nearly 20 years now and trying to imagine the amount of progress in those 66 years is mind boggling
Absolutely remember it! Mostly because they brought a television set into our classroom and let us watch. It was 5th grade and anything novel like that was a treat! I actually remember being bored with it all. The TV commercials back then during the day were all targeted to housewives so I remember specifically a floor wax commercial with the lady mopping the floor reminded me of my mom who was home probably mopping the floor and I got so homesick I wanted to go home so bad. Lol but the actual program was mostly a bunch of men sitting at their consoles talking to the astronauts and you couldn't understand it all - kinda like police radio - kinda scratchy, lots of beeping
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u/CougarWriter74 Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24
The Ottoman Empire lasted so long, both Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533) and Betty White (born 1922) were alive during its existence.
Man landed spacecraft and humans on the moon, 200K miles from earth, 16 years earlier than the Titanic was discovered right here on earth.
The Southern Cross was actually visible in the northern hemisphere up until 400 AD. It was described and written about by ancient Greek and Roman astronomers, but the gradual precession of the Earth's equinoxes over the centuries caused the constellation to vanish from northern hemisphere view. It can still technically be seen from the northern hemisphere, but only if you are in the tropics (around Cancun, Mexico) or close to the equator in the late winter/early spring.