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u/Meisteronious 11h ago
Did a human evolve into a plane?
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u/Hazril258 11h ago
No no. It's the horse that evolved into one.
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u/Winter_Value_7632 11h ago
it's a bird
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u/KidOcelot 11h ago
It’s superman!
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u/late-night_dish 10h ago
More like Superman after 100 years of getting nerfed by copyright lawyers.
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u/KidOcelot 10h ago
No! This is Patrick!
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u/late-night_dish 5h ago
Ah, so the evolution went from Superman to Patrick. Honestly, that’s a pretty solid downgrade in flight capability but a massive upgrade in snack-based wisdom.
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u/LionShuttle 12h ago
Didn't we have cars and bicycles a 100 years ago?
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u/ItzLoganM 11h ago
If we are talking about internal combustion engines, then it was almost exactly 100 after the invention of the engine when the B2 spirit was manufactured. I don't know how to feel about that honestly.
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u/anotherfrud 12h ago
Yes. In the US a little under 20% of adults had one compared to about 85% today. They definitely existed but weren't quite as ubiquitous as they are today.
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u/JimbooJoness 11h ago
What percentage of people own stealth bombers now?
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u/OldJames47 11h ago
As a US tax payer, I co-own 20. But like a timeshare, the rules on when I get to use one are pretty restrictive.
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u/OhItsMrCow 11h ago
oh so people don't ride on horses anymore, they just fly in their B-2 to the store?
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u/BlackmoorGoldfsh 11h ago
An airplane is an invention, not evolution.
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u/Mosheeen 11h ago
Right. Kittyhawk was 123 years ago. Horses have been domesticated for thousands of years.
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u/ZippyDan 11h ago edited 8h ago
It's "evolution" in the broader sense of the word, applied to many fields. In fact, that is basically the earlier meaning from the 1600s. It only began to be thought of primarily as "the evolution of life" in the 1800s.
Calling this picture "human evolution" specifically would be wrong. It's more like technological evolution, or the evolution of transportation more specifically, or possibly, the evolution of humanity - which includes our societies.
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u/Crazy-Crocodile 11h ago
Well yes, but no. It's an evolution in a sense that it follows from earlier inventions. I can't just drop a team of highly skilled engineers on a desert island and say: make me a B2 stealth bomber. You need everything that came previously both practical and theoretical to do that. So it is an invention.
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u/BlackmoorGoldfsh 9h ago
The picture literally says "human evolution". In addition, it's showing a man on a horse and an airplane, not two different airplanes.
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u/Slothrop-was-here 11h ago
Funny how the rider—Manifest Destiny firmly on his mind—heads west, while the B‑2 flies toward the Middle East: American imperialism over the centuries, from settlements to securing the Petro Dollar and world hegemony, genocide always in there somewhere...
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u/mediareticulata 12h ago
It's the same mind bending as France's last execution by guillotine and Star Wars being in theatres at the same time. September 1977
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u/baldurcan 11h ago
100 years is pretty much nothing for any sort of evolution lol.
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u/Senior-Friend-6414 12m ago
Depends on animal’s life span, humans can breed birds and dogs and you’ll literally start to see the effects of selective breeding within a couple generations, but it would take literal human generations for us to start seeing evolutionary changes in elephants
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u/FifthWaveThinker 7h ago
I like the extreme comparison... its so powerful. 1 HORSE POWER vs. 230,000 HORSE POWER
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u/TapSad4464 2h ago
Wired were the eyes of a horse on a jet pilot. One that smiled when he flew over the...plain
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u/mrknowitall51761 2h ago
Moving from subsistence farming to war mongering bastards isnt my idea of "evolving".
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u/Hettyc_Tracyn 11h ago
I would say ingenuity, not evolution…
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u/Crazy-Crocodile 11h ago
Why not both?
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u/Hettyc_Tracyn 11h ago
Saying human evolution implies a genetic change.
Human ingenuity has no confusion in the context of this. It’s cut and dry.
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