RIP

[Gaucho]

RIP Paolo Rossi

[tifosi77]

I've been staring at this tweet for an hour. Imagine that conversation.

It never ceases to amaze me that in the span of one human lifetime, we went from the Wright Brothers to "one small step for man"; Neil Armstrong wasn't even born until 30 years after Kitty Hawk. That's just bonkers.

[Shyster]

It never ceases to amaze me that in the span of one human lifetime, we went from the Wright Brothers to "one small step for man"; Neil Armstrong wasn't even born until 30 years after Kitty Hawk. That's just bonkers.

I think the world probably changed more over the span of 100 years in the 20th century than in the prior 2000 years. I think about my grandfather. He was born in 1905. When he was young, he helped plow the fields on his family farm with a team of horses, and his father (my great-grandfather) worked part time as a postman delivering the mail using a horse and buggy. They would sometimes travel to visit relatives in Evans City, and it would take a full day to travel there on a wagon from Slippery Rock and another full day to travel back. When he died in 2001 at age 96, he'd seen men land on the moon, air travel that could take you just about anywhere in the world in 24 hours, ubiquitous automobiles that could move faster than anything in the world could move in 1905, and the creation of radio, television, and the internet.

[robbiestoupe]

It never ceases to amaze me that in the span of one human lifetime, we went from the Wright Brothers to "one small step for man"; Neil Armstrong wasn't even born until 30 years after Kitty Hawk. That's just bonkers.

I think the world probably changed more over the span of 100 years in the 20th century than in the prior 2000 years. I think about my grandfather. He was born in 1905. When he was young, he helped plow the fields on his family farm with a team of horses, and his father (my great-grandfather) worked part time as a postman delivering the mail using a horse and buggy. They would sometimes travel to visit relatives in Evans City, and it would take a full day to travel there on a wagon from Slippery Rock and another full day to travel back. When he died in 2001 at age 96, he'd seen men land on the moon, air travel that could take you just about anywhere in the world in 24 hours, ubiquitous automobiles that could move faster than anything in the world could move in 1905, and the creation of radio, television, and the internet.

What was that site somebody posted a couple years ago? whywait or something like that? They had a really good blog about this stuff. How there have been 4-5 major technological leaps in the history of mankind, with the age of computers being the most recent and super intelligent AI being the next. If you include the Industrial Revolution, it's crazy how 2 of those major events have happened in the past 150 years, and the next one may not be too far away.

[tifosi77]

It never ceases to amaze me that in the span of one human lifetime, we went from the Wright Brothers to "one small step for man"; Neil Armstrong wasn't even born until 30 years after Kitty Hawk. That's just bonkers.

I think the world probably changed more over the span of 100 years in the 20th century than in the prior 2000 years. I think about my grandfather. He was born in 1905. When he was young, he helped plow the fields on his family farm with a team of horses, and his father (my great-grandfather) worked part time as a postman delivering the mail using a horse and buggy. They would sometimes travel to visit relatives in Evans City, and it would take a full day to travel there on a wagon from Slippery Rock and another full day to travel back. When he died in 2001 at age 96, he'd seen men land on the moon, air travel that could take you just about anywhere in the world in 24 hours, ubiquitous automobiles that could move faster than anything in the world could move in 1905, and the creation of radio, television, and the internet.

Yup, I totally agree. My great-grandmother was born in 1898 and passed in 1995 or '96. When I first started getting into the history of RMS Titanic when the wreck was discovered in 1985, she was like, "I remember reading about it in the paper when I was little."

[dodint]

Paper? She must have been old.

[iamjs]

[blackjack68]

Oh 2020 you just keep doing it

[Ad@m]

RIP Zeus

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

**** STOP IT 2020

[PFiDC]

RIP Zeus

This is how I know him

[meow]

Wow. Get ****, 2020

[shafnutz05]

Zeus legit terrified me as a young wrestling fan. RIP.

[eddy]

I had no idea he was a wrestler. I guess that makes a lot of sense. Deebo and president Lindberg for me

[Kaiser]

I like to think D-Bo ended up on the ferry in The Dark Knight, decent redemption arc.

[Gaucho]

[Freddy Rumsen]

That stinks

[crusherstasiak]

[blackjack68]

[shafnutz05]

One of the best ever. RIP.

[Gaucho]

RIP John Le Carré

[DigitalGypsy66]

Man, what a bummer. His writing was strong until the end, and his last book was among the better books he's written in the last 20 years.

[Gaucho]

RIP Gérard Houllier

[Freddy Rumsen]

Boo

[tifosi77]

RIP to my friend Jonesy's son, Dylan. He was autistic and never spoke a word in his 30 short years with this world, and he passed suddenly of as yet unstated causes.

The Jonesys are exceptionally good eggs. A rare trait for people in their positions in the music industry. (Jonesy was in artist management at an elite level - Slash has played practical jokes on him, and he was at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert with a laminate - and Mrs Jonesy was a top executive at various labels) It sucks to see people of their quality made to suffer.