“World’s oldest telescope?”
Neat article. The ancients seemed to think that their times were degenerate, compared to earlier times. Our world seems to think we’re the Golden Age. I wonder, sometimes.
I assure you we are in a golden age.
Not the first, won't be the last (Well, maybe this one will, we do have the technological capability to clear the planet of all meaningful life).
I expect that as no more of this Great Society will survive the next Ice Age than survived the last one...
Yeah, pride goeth before a fall; and nemesis follows hubris. Of course, prophecy only applies to the past... ;’) I think Lurker is onto something as well.
If you doubt it, study language. Look at the complexity of Sanskrit and ask yourself why they even needed such an elaborate tongue, in their simpler times; and see how crude our modern languages are, in comparison.