I would like to see thw math they did to come up with an estimate of a fucking million years. Any technological prediction farther away than 5 years means “we have no idea at all”
It’s easy, just assume linear growth and that absolutely no new innovations will ever be thought up.
So the new york times has always had shit takes huh
The problematic articles varied in authorship and subject matter, but many shared a common feature
66 years later, Neil walked on the moon.
9 days later, the wright brothers had their first flight.
I’m not a mathematician, but that sounds like much less than a million years.
Not for sufficiently high values of 9.
Time sure does fly
Requiring the efforts of Mathematicians and mechanics spending millions of man hours!
The Wright Brothers built their flying machine in a shed! With a box of bicycle parts!
And paper airplanes (and birds…) existed for ages already, someone just needed to scale it up.
Well I’m not Wilbur Wright.
Guess they forgot about engineers.