The initial âReddit linkâ is not.
Neutrino capture cross section estimate is truthy at best.
I was doing ok until I reached the thread on elephant milking.
Warning: Do not click on embedded YouTube link!
My favorite has long been that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first manned moon landing than she did to when the Great Pyramid was built.
Indeed, Now I canât even make eye contact with my elephant. Awkward.
We are as far in time from the soldiers of WW1 as they were from the soldiers of the Napoleonic wars.
We are now farther in time from the film Gone With the Wind than the film was from the time period it depicts.
You know â I really thought it was going to be about milk.
My birth is four years closer to the release of Gone With The Wind than it is to the present day.
-sob-
Next year the âpresentâ of Back to the Future will be as far away from us as 1955 was then.
And we still donât have hover boards.
Simpsons episode #122, date aired March 19th 1995. Notice the poster.
Still Rolling with up coming tours all around the globe.
My favorite: You probably have an above average number of arms.
I share 100% of my DNA with a banana on an all too frequent basis.
You haaaaaad to go there. AFTER the elephant âmilkingâ video no less.
The Eiffel Tower fact I would have called bullshit onâŚbut so it goes.
âMammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.â I guess I knew that, with Wrangel Island and allâŚbut cool to consider.
SoâŚyour Time Machine awaits. 12 hours is all you get. Would you choose the PyramidâŚor the Mammoths? PyramidâŚhot. smelly. shouting. ButâŚbeer. MammothsâŚcold. smelly. bellowing. No beer on the tundra. ButâŚmammoth fights, cute baby mammothsâŚ?
At first I thought, Ancient EgyptâŚnaturally: witness the mighty construction site, walk the streets and look at the people. Mammoths, just furry elephantsâŚmeh. And I hate the cold.
But upon further consideration: even interesting, ancient peopleâŚare still people. I see âinterestingâ people every day. So, for myselfâŚIâm picking the mammoths: provided I can go on a warm Spring day and pack a lunch.
Well, keep in mind that ancient beer was really nothing like what you drink today; hops werenât added until sometime in the Middle Ages, for example, and more importantly, germ theory hadnât been developed so the wort could end up being contaminated by any number of things. (There have been a surprising number of laws throughout the ages banning the selling of skunky beer.) The guy who finally figured out what spoiled beer and wine? Louis Pasteur, before he applied his germ theory to milk and diseases.
Also, it kind of blows my mind that when I was a kid, I knew World War II veterans who were the same age that I am today.
