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– 6 Bizarre Timeline Facts to Blow Your Mind
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from toptenz.net
A wise man once said that time keeps on slippin’ (slippin’) into the future. On the other hand, he may have had that backwards and time is heading into the past. Or you could believe those who think time is cyclical and the present and the past are the same thing. For practical purposes it probably doesn’t matter. Here are 10 things about timelines that will blow your mind.
6. Cleopatra Lived Closer to the Present Than the Pyramids’ Construction
One of the more remarkable aspects of Cleopatra’s reign is when it occurred in a historical context. Her death took place in 30 BC, so let’s say for the sake of simplicity it was about 2,050 years ago. The pyramids were built by 2490 BC. The Great Pyramid was built around 2580 BC. That means Cleopatra was closer in time to man landing on the moon than she was to the construction of the pyramids in the land she ruled.
5. Less Time Separates Nirvana From Woodstock Than Separates Nirvana From Today
When the band Nirvana formed in 1987, they were only 18 years removed from that epic concert of peace, love and rock n roll known as Woodstock.
4. The Diomede Islands Are Less Than 3 Miles But 21 Hours Apart
If you’re not a geography buff, you may not know about the Diomede Islands. There are two of them, cleverly named Big Diomede and Little Diomede. Only three miles separate the two islands so you can take a boat trip pretty easily from one to the other. But there’s one notable thing in that three-mile stretch that separates them and that’s the International Date Line. So when it’s noon on Big Diomede, it’s 3:00 pm the previous day on Little Diomede. A full 21 hours passes, going back in time, as you travel from Big D to Little D. Or you could go the opposite way and leap into the future by almost a day.
3. The Center of the Earth is 2.5 Years Younger Than the Outside
Gravity and time make strange bedfellows in the sense that gravity causes time to slow down a bit. Because of how this works, according to Einstein, the core of the earth has a stronger gravitational effect than the surface which is further from that gravity well.
The result of Earth’s own gravity wonking up time is that, even though the exterior and interior formed at the same time, the interior is about 2.5 years younger because time flows slower there.
2. Time Flies Slower on the Space Station Than On Earth
If you head up to the space station, you will notice in no way that time flows differently. But in much the same way that time flows differently in the center of the earth, it flows differently out there in orbit around the earth. Because of the space station’s velocity in space, astronauts on board age 0.007 seconds less than people on Earth.
And the number one Bizarre Timeline Facts to Blow Your Mind
1. We Are Closer to The Jetsons Vision of the Future Than When It Aired
The cartoon premiered in 1962, but it was written to take place 100 years in the future. That means the show takes place in 2062. And that means we currently live in a world closer to the fictional Jetsons than the real year it was produced.
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