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When was the most history made? A quantified view.

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Re: When was the most history made? A quantified view.

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Post by jamesbkel » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 12:00 AM UTC

fedd wrote: post #7

by the way, there are theories that everything ancient really occurred not that long ago. if true, the graph may be less steep. if curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_%28Fomenko%29 (i think its bullshit but who knows? :))

I agree that it reeks of BS, but I had never heard of this. Thanks for the link.

Re: When was the most history made? A quantified view.

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Post by brianleb » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 12:07 AM UTC

This is not nearly as interesting as I hoped. Allow me to sum it up for you:

"History" is defined as "person-years lived." Therefore, the more people there are alive (and the longer they live), the more history is being made. There are currently more people alive than ever before at a given time. Therefore, we are currently making the most history.

Mind-blowing, right?

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