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Seeker
22-01-21, 08:34 PM
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html

(it's US focused but interesting)

One comment that made me go: "what?"

"...the ever foolish Stegosaurus lived 150 million years ago. Meanwhile the Tyrannosaurus Rex lived 67 million years ago. That means the T-Rex is closer in time to seeing a Justin Bieber concert than seeing a live Stegosaurus"

I love seeing how people I know about lived at the same time - although I had the information I had never thought about it. Shakespeare and Galileo lived at the same time and Newton was born one year after Galileo's death.

Craig380
22-01-21, 09:57 PM
Galileo? GALILEO!

embee
23-01-21, 01:11 AM
Magnifico!!