This humanity fuck yeah stuff really rings hollow when you look at the trajectory of the world. What does any of this matter if we just kill ourselves by ransacking the planet or blowing ourselves up?

The chariot lasting as high tech for 3800 years has some part to do with the dark ages.....

Sorry if it's already been pointed out but they just kind of skipped over boats

I feel like the pictures over-exaggerate the difference a bit. The wright flyer was literally made by two people in their spare time while the space program was around 4% of all federal spending and had almost half a million people working on it in some capacity.

All supported by the giant shoulders of some tiny apes that jogged behind fauna for 4 million years, and ate some berries along the way.

where are my rocket socks?

But what if...

My great-grandfather grew up with horses and carriages and saw man set foot on the moon and the early days of the internet. He saw the rise and fall of the USSR. What will I see?

100 years from now we will have unlearned all of that.

I'm certainly not.