My favorite date-span analogy is that it wasn’t until 20 years after Apollo 11 that they figured out to put wheels on luggage. It was another 20 years later that they figured out to put four wheels on luggage.
How many 100’s of 1,000’s of years did it take humans to go from managing fire to its first powered flight? Then another 30 years to get from the Wright Flyer to the DC-3, and only 36 more to land on the Moon and return. If we graphed the rate of advancement of technology over time, I figure the curve must be pretty close to vertical now.
The Douglas DC-3 has been called the “greatest single aircraft design ever”; that aircraft brought scheduled commercial aviation into reality…. and it’s still flying commercially (freight)!
You won’t have to remind me to avoid the “Lilo and Stitch” movie. 66 years is an eternity when it comes to tech now. The donut shaped coins would have saved a mint.
jasonsnakelover about 4 years ago
Stilo and Litch How could Elvis not be in a song he’s singing?
I don’t know what’s so strange about the moon one.
Take care and may God bless.
Templo S.U.D. about 4 years ago
The 五円 and 五十円 coins in Japan already look like doughnuts.
Bilan about 4 years ago
My favorite date-span analogy is that it wasn’t until 20 years after Apollo 11 that they figured out to put wheels on luggage. It was another 20 years later that they figured out to put four wheels on luggage.
LeftCoastKen Premium Member about 4 years ago
How many 100’s of 1,000’s of years did it take humans to go from managing fire to its first powered flight? Then another 30 years to get from the Wright Flyer to the DC-3, and only 36 more to land on the Moon and return. If we graphed the rate of advancement of technology over time, I figure the curve must be pretty close to vertical now.
therese_callahan2002 about 4 years ago
America runs on Duncoins.
jpayne4040 about 4 years ago
Oh great, so I would get hungry every time I pay cash for something.
Bittermelon of Truth about 4 years ago
That last one— makes me wonder what advancements in flight that mankind will see in 2035 (66 years after Apollo 11).
prabbit237 about 4 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilo_and_stitch#Soundtrack
Only five actually sung by Elvis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Creole_(soundtrack)
11 songs.
oakie817 about 4 years ago
excuse me, but believe it or not, “Elvis on Tour” is an Elvis film, and he does 30 songs in that movie
Thorby about 4 years ago
The Douglas DC-3 has been called the “greatest single aircraft design ever”; that aircraft brought scheduled commercial aviation into reality…. and it’s still flying commercially (freight)!
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 4 years ago
You won’t have to remind me to avoid the “Lilo and Stitch” movie. 66 years is an eternity when it comes to tech now. The donut shaped coins would have saved a mint.
Take care and gesundheit.
NatureBatsLast about 4 years ago
Too bad the rise of CO2 curve is close to vertical as well.
Teto85 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Canadian two dollars coins are doughnuts with the hole filled in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie
Stephen Gilberg about 4 years ago
I’m more impressed at how little time elapsed between the automobile and the plane.
craigwestlake about 4 years ago
I guess the Treasury just had a ‘yen’ to make coins with holes in them…
soap12 about 4 years ago
“Fewer” than…
jamesbaird1572 about 4 years ago
A coil called a washer.
eromlig about 4 years ago
Gernsback almost 4 years ago
And someone from ohio was involved in both..the Wright brothers in 1903, and Neil Armstrong in 1969
RichardMetropolis over 3 years ago
STITCH