Six and a Half Lifetimes Ago: What Happened Then?

JustDave

JustDave

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First, lifetime is not a generation, which I was told one time was 35 years. I assume that's just an approximation, but in my case, a lifetime is 81 years. I guess I could say I've seen a lot in my lifetime. The A Bomb, Men on the Moon, bla bla bla, etc. But here's a noteworthy event from 6 or 7 lifetimes ago: Columbus discovered America, a land inhabited by people still living in the stone age. The changes that occur in one lifetime seem normal to us. But string a few together, and it can boggle the mind. It's hard for humans to comprehend time. I think for many of us, what we think of as a very long time is hardly any time at all.
 

Can't imagine what one of the oldest humas would think if they were able to time travel to now.

Jebel Irhoud:
The Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco yielded fossils of at least five individuals, including skulls, jaws, and other skeletal fragments, alongside stone tools. These remains, dated to between 280,000 and 350,000 years old, are considered to be the earliest known remains of Homo sapiens. The Jebel Irhoud fossils exhibit a mix of features that link them to both earlier and later Homo sapiens populations.

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Aunt Bea said:
The thing that frustrates me is how little some things have changed and seemingly may never change.

War, poverty, crimes against children, so many things that have been constantly in the news for several generations never seem to improve or disappear. šŸ˜¢
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Times have changed, technology has advanced, societies have evolved, but Human nature seems to have changed little since the Stone Age.
 
Many of the students in college were born after 9/11 but I'm guessing most of us can remember every detail of that day as though it was yesterday but have to think hard what we did yesterday. As I have gotten older, the passage of time has taken me down deep rabbit holes when I take the time to think about it.
 
CallMeKate said:
I've noticed this, too... the thing that always hit me hardest about it was realizing that the last Civil War vet died in the mid 1950s. Yikes! šŸ˜²:eek: And to anyone living now and over age 50 or 60, that really wasn't so long ago at all.
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For that time period, I usually think in terms of Custer's Last Stand. Not sure why. Maybe because as a kid it seemed to be a big event, but in military terms, a small cavalry overpowered by vastly superior numbers had no effect on the outcome of the "war." When I first visited Montana, silver dollars were as common as paper dollars, and I remember studying them and realizing what seemed like half of them were minted within a couple years of Custer's death.
 
I was surprised to find, "Prior to the arrival of European explorers in the Americas in 1492, it is estimated that the population of the continent was around sixty million people."

[Some historians have a higher estimate.]

FROM STATISTA
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I was surprised to find, "Prior to the arrival of European explorers in the Americas in 1492, it is estimated that the population of the continent was around sixty million people."

[Some historians have a higher estimate.]

FROM STATISTA
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That sounds like a lot at first, but there were a lot of people spread out over a lot of landmass, and there were large civilizations in both of the Americas. Sixty million doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I was surprised to find, "Prior to the arrival of European explorers in the Americas in 1492, it is estimated that the population of the continent was around sixty million people."

[Some historians have a higher estimate.]

FROM STATISTA
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who the hell is doin the estimates and how - in this age we are swingin stats around our necks for ever more - prove them scientifically - not guesswork??
 
MACKTEXAS said:
You should direct your questions to STATISTA by using the "contact" tab at the link I provided.
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They provide all sorts of additional information including on their methodology, but you have to subscribe for that. I think they averaged the high and low estimates of population and came up with an average of 57 million.
 
It seems like the biggest struggle is to keep up with technology, and even though the Darwin mantra is to adapt or die, it can be a daunting endeavor when the tech environment is changing at a rapidly accelerating pace. Just buying a new car today and learning all it's features is mind blowing.

Some things in life don't change all that much over time, but usually anything that involves electronics and technology does, so there is always a learning curve, and sometimes it's steep, but if you don't keep up, before long, you will just feel overwhelmed by it all. Then before long, you have to ask others for help.
 
bobcat said:
It seems like the biggest struggle is to keep up with technology, and even though the Darwin mantra is to adapt or die, it can be a daunting endeavor when the tech environment is changing at a rapidly accelerating pace. Just buying a new car today and learning all it's features is mind blowing.
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The mantra still applies; Adapt of die. It's not like we choose which to do, but evolution works with either one.
 

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