Time. It’s an odd thing, isn’t it? There are days that seem like they’ll never come to a close, but in the end we’re all left thinking we didn’t have enough time to get things done.
We read time travel books and watch time travel movies, and they make us think (mostly about how time travel doesn’t work, imho).
Humans essentially made up the concept of time passing so we could put our existence into some kind of order.So it only seems fair that this post about time shakes up your world just a tiny bit.
John Tyler fathered a son at the ripe age of 63, and he has two living grandchildren in their 80s.
We went from the Wright Brothers barely managing to stay aloft for a solid minute (1903), to using aircraft for nuclear strikes (1945), to landing on the moon (1969) in under 70 years. Pretty freaking wild, right?
Alexander Bain invented the first fax machine in 1843. The famous wagon trail west was established around 1836 and was used until 1869.
Granted, photography wasn’t invented until 1826, but still. This is pretty mind blowing (it definitely would be mind blowing to those people who lived in 1826).
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