📅 Original date posted:2023-08-05
🗒️ Summary of this message: Samson Mow questions the 180-year limit for planning, suggesting a longer timeframe, and provides examples of historical inventions.
📝 Original message:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 11:41:39AM -0700, Samson Mow wrote:
> Why the 180 year limit? imho should plan for longer.
You know, it was only 137 years ago that the first practical electric motor was
invented; 143 years ago that the first practical light bulb was invented.
180 years is a long time.
But if that seems too short, as I said, 3 bytes is sufficient for 45,934 years.
The invention of agriculture is only 12,000 years old. Although I guess as a
toxic bitcoin carnivore you care more about the invention of the bow and arrow,
70,000 years ago.
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https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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2023-08-05 21:58:15
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