Facts that will change your concept of time

They sound incomprehensible, but nevertheless it is true.

Prepare now your mind will be in a different time zone. AdMe.ru gathered for you interesting evidence that time travel is closer than you think.

16 facts here





1. Pyramid of Cheops was built in 2560 BC Cleopatra lived from 69 to 30 years. BC. The landing on the moon took place in 1969. This means that Cleopatra was closer to the lunar landing than to the construction of the pyramids.



2. Speaking of pyramids. For the ancient Romans, they were as old as the Romans the most for us.



3. During the demonstration of the first "Star Wars" in France, people still executed on the guillotine.



4. During the time that has passed since the discovery of Pluto before it ceased to be a planet, he never made a complete revolution around the sun.



5. Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev can be regarded as the owner of an interesting record - the longest travel time. Calculated that because of space flight, Krikalev at 1/48 of a second younger than if he had remained all the time in the world.



6. Every two minutes, we make more shots than all of humanity in the XIX century.



7. Nintendo was founded back in 1889, when the card is manufactured for the Japanese game.



8. The difference in time between when the tyrannosaurs lived and that when Stegosaurus lived longer than Tyrannosaurus rex and between us.



9. If you dig a hole to the center of the earth and threw the book, it will fall 42 minutes.



10. Oh yes. If you put the whole history of the planet Earth in one day, the person will appear for one minute before midnight.



11. It is believed that our era leads countdown Christ. Year when Christ was born, figured in the 6th century the Roman abbot Dionysius Exiguus, and made a mistake. The exact value of the error is not possible to determine, but the birth happened about 4-8 years before the Christian era.



12. When the baseball club "Chicago Cubs" became the champion of the Ottoman Empire still existed.



13. Stephen Hawking believes that it is impossible to move in time. Moreover, he stated that he had received experimental confirmation of this statement. June 28, 2009, Hawking has organized a party for time travelers, but the announcement of this event has made the next day on the Internet. At a meeting at the specified time, no one came.



14. In 1903, the Wright brothers made their first flight. After 38 years, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. And after 28 years, man landed on the moon.



15. To be more precise UTC time corresponds to the mean solar time, in some years by June 30 or December 31 the International Earth Rotation Service adds an extra second, which is also called a leap year. In those days after 23:59:59 23:59:60 comes first, and only then 00:00:00 the next day.



16. 1980 farther from us than 2046.



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