The years 1918-1970 is the same amount of time as 1970-2022. Having a hard time wrapping my head around that one.
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I was born in the 70s and am a child of the 80s, but the principal is the same if you consider that 1940 through 1981 covered the same amount of time as 1981 through today. Crazy to think about that.
In 1940 there were still a lot of living Civil War veterans. By 1981, we were launching space shuttles and playing video games.
In 1940 there were still a lot of living Civil War veterans. By 1981, we were launching space shuttles and playing video games.
I was merely making an observation on the concept of time that I find somewhat strange. I guess it is something very similar to this comment:I wish there was an unlike, thumbs down option on here. I very much do not like.
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What gets me is generations and lifespans.
Almost anybody born in the 1950s would know somebody born in the 1800s, and maybe even a Civil War vet. That Civil War vet could have known people from Colonial days. That's 2 lifespans from 1776 to the 1950s.
So even with the longevity of today, we are only 10-11 lifespans away from the year 3000.
I was born in 1970. That stat is terrifying. At 52, I really dont feel radically different than I did at 22, though I know I am. I still jump on my mountain bike and run trails. I still can run, though I despise doing it, so I guess I am not doing terrible to be 52. What scares me more is that in 20 years, which I dont see as that long of a period of time, if I am still around, I will be 72! 
Much harder for me to believe that 1992 is as far away from 2022 as it was from 1962. Being a teen in the 90s, the 60s seemed like an eternity and half ago. But, now, in 2022, 1992 seems like it was just a few years ago.
Have had the same line of thinking. My parents born when there were more horses than cars on the road. Almost strictly dirt. Little or no electricity. Took 3 hours to get 9 miles to town. Grandparents into adulthood before they ever saw a car or experienced electricity. People in the country didn’t have electricity until the thirties. Can go on and on
Posted something similar on the old board.
The first shots of the Civil War were as far from Pearl Harbor as Pearl Harbor was from 2021.
Still can’t get that even though I understand the math.
These kinds of topics fascinate me. To think we're closer to 2050 than 1990 is crazy.
I was born in 94, so we had WW2 vets and the like come speak to classes on a regular basis in elementary school. I knew a bunch of WW2 vets at church. My son will grow up with WW2 a distant memory. When he's in elementary school in 5 or 6 years, there won't be many left at all.
The passage of time and generations is really interesting to think about. Like it's already been said, it doesn't take many generations to go a long way back in the past.
I was born in 94, so we had WW2 vets and the like come speak to classes on a regular basis in elementary school. I knew a bunch of WW2 vets at church. My son will grow up with WW2 a distant memory. When he's in elementary school in 5 or 6 years, there won't be many left at all.
The passage of time and generations is really interesting to think about. Like it's already been said, it doesn't take many generations to go a long way back in the past.
It is a scary prospect and will be here before you know it! I'm turning 70 next month and it has really got me wondering if it is time for me to grow up.....I was born in 1970. That stat is terrifying. At 52, I really dont feel radically different than I did at 22, though I know I am. I still jump on my mountain bike and run trails. I still can run, though I despise doing it, so I guess I am not doing terrible to be 52. What scares me more is that in 20 years, which I dont see as that long of a period of time, if I am still around, I will be 72!
I can tell you the answer to that one. Nope. Nadda. Not a chance in the bloody pit of hades!
The most shocking to me is that time seems to move a whole lot faster once I turned 30 years old? According to the laws of physics, this is not true because time moves at the same rate. My teenager years in the 1980s decade seem like yesterday but they are already 33 - 42 years ago! Scary!!!
Born in 1985 myself, when I was young I remember getting to talk to a guy who fought in WW1, said he fought in France, either in the ardennes or argonne forest(I can't remember which one).
When I was a kid, my dad told me about a tv show from his childhood called "I've got a secret" (either late 1940s or very early 1950s) and one time there was an elderly man on the show who's secret was that he had witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater as a child!
Lifespans have been mentioned in this thread. There is a very interesting website out there called findagrave.com. All you have to do is put in a deceased person’s name and you can sometimes go back many generations. Some of my family tree only can be traced to a couple of generations back. But I was able to go back to the early 1600’s to an ancestor born in a castle in Ireland by following one branch of my tree. They also have public records. One of my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War under Washington. There is a full public record of his application for a government pension for his time in service.
