Monday, December 30, 2013

How Far You Could Travel Across the U.S. in One Day, from 1800 to Present

File under: The amazing gains in our standard of living.


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  1. oh really?.....we've progressed only one century in the last two........50 years ago a flight from NYC to LA took 5-6 hours....today it's the same....NYC to Hong Kong: 16 hours.....the technologies and inventions exist to get us around the world in minutes....magnetic-lift propulsion, free-energy, etc....check out www.paoweb.com.....Sheldan Nidle updates....current and archive links....all the answers are there.............

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  2. New York to California by plane in 1934? What more efficient options are there 80 years later?! Thanks for getting in the way Government, I could be teleporting by now.

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  3. All the major progress was made after the Fed was created in 1913.

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    1. All the major progress was stifled after the Fed was created in 1913...

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    2. ...all the major progress was made after the Fed was created... FAIL

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    3. All the major progress was made after it snowed in 1910... All the major progress was made after the first Sunday after the first full moon after... All the major progress was made after (pick random event)...

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