✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Chauvet Cave: c. 34,000 BC; Last mammoths: until c. 2000 BC; Telephone: 1876 — about 32,000 years between the first two, about 3,900 years between the last two.
The last mammoths lived closer in time to the invention of the telephone than to the paintings of Chauvet Cave.
Who and what
- The paintings of Chauvet Cavec. 34,000 BC · Chauvet Cave, France. Lions and rhinos painted 8 times as long ago as the pyramids
- Last woolly mammothsc. 2000 BC · Wrangel Island. Mammoths still roam while the pyramids are centuries old
- Invention of the telephone1876 · Boston. Bell sends a voice down a wire — the world starts calling
More paradoxes
- Peter the Great lived closer in time to Gagarin's spaceflight than to the Christianization of Rus.
- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
- Julius Caesar lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
- Isaac Newton lived closer in time to the theory of relativity than to the Battle of Hastings.
- The fall of Constantinople is closer in time to Gagarin's spaceflight than to the founding of Constantinople.