Time is Funny

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428), Oxford was 1096

Crazy.

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428), Oxford was 1096

Wooly mammoths were roaming the earth when the pyramids were built.

Buffalo Bill Cody Was Alive When Paris Was Bombed By German Zeppelins

Wyatt Earp Lived Long Enough To Watch TV

[Izzle]

Harvard was founded before calculus. Crazy.

[jayswin]

I would really love to see a Wooly Mammoth alive in present day, ethics and money be damned.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Every kid who graduates from 2020 on will learn of 9/11 as a historical event that they discovered in textbooks but weren't alive to witness.

You obviously haven’t met my nephew.

[Muffins]

The last widow of an American Civil War vet died in 2020.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I would really love to see a Wooly Mammoth alive in present day, ethics and money be damned.

You obviously haven’t met my nephew.

[malcolmk14]

Originally Posted by Muffins

The last widow of an American Civil War vet died in 2020.

This one is hard to believe, as the civil war ended 155 years before that...

Let's do some math, say the war vet fought at 18 in 1865 so they were born in 1847...

Long after the war he married a woman much younger than him... say 40 years younger? Which would make her born in 1887. In order for her to live till 2020 she would have had to live to 133.

So maybe he married someone 60 years younger than him? Like he was 80 and she was 20. This would have made her born in 1907 - still would've had to live till 113 to make it to 2020.

Oh no, I googled it and it's even worse than that.

He was 93 and she was 17, for a whopping 76 year difference. She was born in 1919 which means he was born in or around 1843.

[Swift]

As far as I remember from reading the story at the time, there was no marital relationship of any kind. The girl was someone who helped out around the house and befriended him. He then married her with the sole intention of her receiving his pension.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Weitz

You obviously haven’t met my nephew.

Hah why do you say that?