Incredible `Time Machine` - link to the 1600s!

BlubberyConspiracy

arpgme
reply to post by mlifeoutthere

 

If Jesus died during Pilate's rule during the pass-over and 2 hr dark sky, on the 9th hour that would be 3PM April 3rd, 33AD

So, it's only 1980 years ago .

In 1720 it would have been 1687 years ago.

Cool to think about

1720 Just when the western Great Pirate Era was coming to an end.

Aye, who is it that says it came to an end, aye, (/add your pirate accent and favorite words), aye

wow yeah great post now you mentioned it I've known " Elvis , john Lennon , Micheal Jackson, Saddam Hussein alive and kickin , hanged and bunglin , Iraq war , Bin laden in the mountains , and in the sea , uh actually not!.. twin towers collapse , tsunami's Fukashima etc." I'm getting old..but if think about it I hope they will remember me and say how did he survive...

Ericthedoubter
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Me,f'rinstance?

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I read somewhere that YOUR smartphone....yes-yours,has more computing power than everything that existed 40 years ago...all of it...added together.

edit on 23-11-2013 by Ericthedoubter because: to add:I read...

That's true - processing power doubles every two years as the transistor sizes shrink. So either the hardware shrinks in size, or you keep the size and double the performance. You can also measure these systems by the bandwidth or how much data you can send in a second. A navy ship with only some poor sailor in the crows nest with a couple of semaphore flags could only manage 1 character/second. A UHF radio with people speaking to each other could only do 7 characters/second. A dialup telephone line could do 5600 characters/second (56K modems). Your smartphone can send and receive 500,000 characters/second (54 Megabits). You can download a several megabyte application within a minute. That's more than the entire communication capability of some aircraft carriers that use multiple UHF radio channels to talk to flight-deck, aircraft, and support ships.

Interesting. I was struck by the 50 year anniversary of Kennedy's death, which happened when I was in 9th grade. The 50 year anniversary of Lincoln's death was 1915, a year after my mother was born. Puts things in perspective.

Aleister

Another_Nut
do any of yiu have contact with your families? or talked to an elderly person? sone knrw people who fought the the civil war and flu pandemic

this thread makes me sad on many levels

bur glad some of u are opening your eyes

feels go to put things in perspective ,doesnt it

I usually ask older people to relate some of their life experiences - who they met, what parts of history did they witness or play a part in, etc. You'd be surprised how many of them beam and open up about the most extraordinary things. I've never done it, but would suggest going to a nursing home and asking residents at random those questions, and I bet you'd soon have a crowd of people around you all discussing their memorable moments.

acually, no it wiuldnt suprise me. at all

and it wouldnt suprisr a lot of people i know.

it maks me sad any of that stuff u said suprises anyone

Its humbling when you think what some people have seen.

My dad's great aunt lived to be 104 - she died in the late 1980's. In her lifetime mankind went from war on horseback to nuclear weapons. From the fastest mode of transport being a thoroughbred horse to Concorde. From mankind looking at the moon to mankind landing on it. From an age when few could read and write properly to the dawn of the computer age, and lived through the height of the British Empire and Queen Victoria, through the Boer War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and the cold war.

Truly an amazing timeline.

The nature of people hasn't changed for thousands of years. There are roman villas in yorkshire where the gates were made bigger than the neighbours so the estate looked bigger than the neighbours. Also worth looking at the tablets found of roman soldiers on hadriens wall writing back to their family in spain, regretting that they could not be there for the sons birthday.
We really understand history if we treat these people like we would think today- with hopes and dreams

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You are adding the generations wrong. You can't just divide 1000 years by 70; the years divided by the average life span. You have to go by the births. When someone is born, it starts another generation. If you look at ancient tombstones, the average life span was not 70 years. At times, the average life span was no more than twenty to thirty years, because of disease or some other ailment. Also, people long ago would have children as early as twelve years old. So, it might be more accurate to divide 1000 years by when a person had a child, which would be from 12 to 16 or so. 1000 divided by 16 = 62. If you go by the Jewish calendar, which is based on the lives of Adam and Eve until nowadays, it is in the year of 5774. People lived longer in ancient times. Some people lived for several hundred years. But, all the generations from Adam to Jesus was about 77 generations. This is when it starts getting sketchy. Unless you could count the genealogy from Jesus through all the way to today, you can not get an accurate average. But, if you take 2013, which is roughly from Jesus's death until now, and divide it by 16, which could be the average age someone gave birth, you get 125 generations. From the beginning of time to now would be roughly 202 generations.

reply to post by mlifeoutthere


You hit the nail on the head, history is a time machine for our imagination if we study it...unfortunately its hard to trust the history we have readily accessible but its still fascinating to read up about those people of the past.

One thing I have noted, people of that time retained a fair amount of morality and good character, humanity if you will, in comparison to our time and I am sure were they to see the way we are now they would wonder what went wrong and why.

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Damn he looks pretty good for 103.

This is a cool story and post. I heard of a woman who was still receiving benefits from her father who was a civil war soldier. I found a link to the story. gawker.com.... I have never attached a web link before I hope this is right?

CardiffGiant
anyone alive before the days of mustard gas? sarin gas? hiv?

HIV is a good one, I'm just barely old enough to have remembered the epidemic really hit it's height of paranoia and ignorance. I was born in 82, so when I was 6-11 or so is when it was really at it's peak.

0bserver1
wow yeah great post now you mentioned it I've known " Elvis , john Lennon , Micheal Jackson, Saddam Hussein alive and kickin , hanged and bunglin , Iraq war , Bin laden in the mountains , and in the sea , uh actually not!.. twin towers collapse , tsunami's Fukashima etc." I'm getting old..but if think about it I hope they will remember me and say how did he survive...

Hahha thats funny how you put it.. i can imagine my great great great great great grandchildren saying `our descendant was around the same time that justin bieber was alive

UGH..

I haven't read through the whole thread but the OP is absolutely correct about times past being not that long ago.

One of my own shocks in this regard came when I read Herodotus's The Histories, (5th century B.C.). I couldn't believe how contemporary the guy sounded. He's like a PBS presenter of a documentary on TV.

People haven't changed that much over the millennia. They are working with more information than they had in the past but in attitudes and their general way of doing things our ancestors "are us" to a very great extent.

In fact the ruling classes around the world are the most atavistic people of all. They still want to change a government by rushing into the room and killing everybody.

"What a thing is man!"

Wow, excellent post, OP. S&F! After having this new perspective, the past really does not seem as long ago as we think it was. It is absolutely mind blowing. To take your OP one step further, the people that this guy met from the 1600's probably had grandparents that were alive and knew people who were from the 1500's. That's the freakin' middle ages! Knights in shining armor and all of that.

I was born in 1989 and I can't really recall the world before internet. We had carts in middle school with laptops that had wi-fi capabilities. We even had computers in elementary school with internet. (Funny side note- we were searching on yahoo! in 4th grade all of our names and we searched a kid named danny and a porn website was the first hit on the search page, lol!) It's incredible to think that people born around the year I was born will be some of the last people to know the world before high speed internet and constant connectivity through mobile devices. My kids (barring any catastrophic event) won't know the world before any kind of HDTV, iphones, 24/7 news, or anything that has shown up on the scene really recently.


A quick note on another person's post about how one smart phone has a ton of computing power- the computing power of the microchip in a birthday card that sings something stupid has more computing power than all of the computers of the entire allied forces during WWII.

Aleister
reply to post by mlifeoutthere

 

I've often thought along the same lines, how a thousand years is only 14 or so lives of 70 years apiece. And the people in the states have a harder time of visualizing long stretches of time as the country is so young in comparison to nations in other parts of the world. India has socks older than the United States.

edit on 22-11-2013 by Aleister because: (no reason given)

You must be joking! First... check your math for an average lifespan for people over the last 1000yrs. Second... what makes you think the persons in the U.S. are history ignorant? Third... India also has this www.chinasmack.com... hotos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html EDIT: Warning, This post is full of graphic fotos and is only to form a comparison to nations in other parts of the world.

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And whats so different to someone in 2005 who happens to be 106 and met people born in 1849?

I'm not sure I see the excitement in all this? He met people born in the 1600's because he was closer to that time. No different to my example above.

Old people see more than ones who die young. Who would have thought?

MadMax9
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And whats so different to someone in 2005 who happens to be 106 and met people born in 1849?

I'm not sure I see the excitement in all this? He met people born in the 1600's because he was closer to that time. No different to my example above.

Old people see more than ones who die young. Who would have thought?

If you grow to a ripe old age, and have gg grand children sit on your lap and ask you questions like ....grandpa what was it like when you were young, you show some fotos and stories, you show them some old cool tricks from wayyy back. You will understand.

mlifeoutthere

0bserver1
wow yeah great post now you mentioned it I've known " Elvis , john Lennon , Micheal Jackson, Saddam Hussein alive and kickin , hanged and bunglin , Iraq war , Bin laden in the mountains , and in the sea , uh actually not!.. twin towers collapse , tsunami's Fukashima etc." I'm getting old..but if think about it I hope they will remember me and say how did he survive...

Hahha thats funny how you put it.. i can imagine my great great great great great grandchildren saying `our descendant was around the same time that justin bieber was alive

UGH..

Ah, that would never happen. He won't be remembered 10 years from now.
They'll more than likely be amazed you were around for the death of music.

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What? Only one-hundred flags? Keep up the great werk peoplze.