Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Technically there were more horses on the road than cars until just before WWI and the first F-22 hit the skies barely 100 years later.

It took about 40 years or less from horses to put the first jet fighter in the air. What has your generation don? :D


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No thoughts yourself?

My though is less dependance on Religion and more on Science.

If whatever God you worship controls everything then why research anything.
There’s a mathematical model that tracks technological achievements that clearly shows the progression. The rate that technology accelerates doubles much faster all the time along a roughly parabolic curve.

The exceptions being periods of huge destruction brought about largely by wars that destroy civilizations, both religion and greed motivated. Think Persia, Greece, Rome, etc.

The difference now is that wars usually don’t destroy civilizations and tend to accelerate technology along a certain path, that usually isn’t health and longevity related.
 
ETA:
Technically there were more horses on the road than cars until just before WWI and the first F-22 hit the skies barely 100 years later.

It took about 40 years or less from horses to put the first jet fighter in the air. What has your generation don? :D


ancient-aliens.jpg

My Grandfather was born in 1919. Bought his first car at age 12 for $2. He could drive from Burlington Iowa to Ft Madison Iowa (20ish miles) and never see another car. Claimed people would run out of thier homes to wave at him.

When he enlisted prior to WW2, he was assigned as a mechanic to a Armored Calvary unit. His first uniforms included "Saddle Britches" as they had just become "Mechanized".
 
My Grandfather was born in 1919. Bought his first car at age 12 for $2. He could drive from Burlington Iowa to Ft Madison Iowa (20ish miles) and never see another car. Claimed people would run out of thier homes to wave at him.

When he enlisted prior to WW2, he was assigned as a mechanic to a Armored Calvary unit. His first uniforms included "Saddle Britches" as they had just become "Mechanized".

Awesome!

The distance between people waving at him in his new fangled horseless contraption to seeing his first F100 split the sky and the sound barrier is only about 30 years.
 
My Grandfather was born in 1919. Bought his first car at age 12 for $2. He could drive from Burlington Iowa to Ft Madison Iowa (20ish miles) and never see another car. Claimed people would run out of thier homes to wave at him.

When he enlisted prior to WW2, he was assigned as a mechanic to a Armored Calvary unit. His first uniforms included "Saddle Britches" as they had just become "Mechanized".

My paternal grandfather was born in 1895. Served in France during WWI. I still remember him using mules in tobacco fields. He died when I was ten. Wish I had known enough to pick his brain.

Would like to tell my grandfathers (both farmers) that a pickup cost 100K.