“Spaceships Are Now Older Than Airplanes Were When We Flew Our First Spaceships”

From XKCD, a reminder that human spaceflight is older than we might think and human flight is more recent.

I am a sucker for these sorts of things. Perhaps my favorite is that Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than she did to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Or maybe it’s that Ralph Macchio is five years older now than Pat Morita was when he played Mr. Miyagi opposite Macchio in The Karate Kid.

See also Timeline Twins, Unlikely Simultaneous Historical Events, and The Great Span.

• flying
• Randall Munroe
• time