Timeline for What is the plausible possibility of a society not changing much from the grandparents' generation to current generation of that world?
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 5:55 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 5:25 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 5:11 | answer | added | Ton Day | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 3:58 | answer | added | user61244 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | pojo-guy | It actually comes down to a railway tunnel that curves, whose width is dictated by the width of the train track, If the boosters were any largr they would not be able to go through that tunnel. The width of the railway guage was determined by the jigs that the wagon makers used when makingthe first rail cars, which was in turn dictated by the width of the ruts in the old roman roads. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 16:19 | comment | added | Justin Thyme | @pojo-guy The width, or the height above ground, of the target biological feature? There is a natural engineering relationship in maximum power transfer between the center of gravity of the chariot, the axle of the chariot, the link height between the chariot and the horse harness (usually the axle height), the horse harness to the position of the shoulders (center of mass) of the horse, and ultimately the fore mentioned orifice. Same constraints as the booster rockets to the main body. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 15:36 | comment | added | pojo-guy | I'm not sure. I think I saw it in a book, probably the same one where I discovered that the major design constraint on the solid fuel boosters on the space shuttle was, ultimaely the wheelbase of a roman chariot, which was designed around the width of a horse's a*** | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 15:16 | answer | added | workerjoe | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 15:14 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 14:45 | answer | added | Justin Thyme | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 14:22 | comment | added | Justin Thyme | @pojo-guy "A 1st century Roman would have understood most everything up to the mid 1800's" That line fascinates me, because I heard it (it is an exact quote) over 30 years ago in a fairly unique setting. I wonder if we both heard it from the same source? | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 14:18 | comment | added | Justin Thyme | @Ivana Actually, he wouldn't. Same basic foods (still fresh, local, non-processed), same God (the Romans established the Roman Catholic Church), and Roman law still forms the basis of Western law. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 13:26 | comment | added | Ivana | @pojo-guy There would be no technological novelties to astonish your Roman, but he would adhere to different laws, eat different foods, worship different gods and maybe even speak a different language from his descendants. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 13:18 | comment | added | Ivana | For society to remain the same, everything within and around it should remain the same. So no conquest by neighbours, no environmental disasters or over-population. Then the only change is slow societal and technological change from within. What would make these changes-from-within pickup pace or slow down? No idea, interesting question. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 12:43 | answer | added | AshLewis | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 11:58 | history | edited | walrus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2018 at 11:53 | answer | added | walrus | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 11:47 | answer | added | fairsky | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 11:23 | comment | added | pojo-guy | @Angelpray you should expand your comment and make it an answer. That is indeed how society worked for most of recorded history. Rapid progress and change is really the past century. A 1st century Roman would have understood most everything up to the mid 1800's. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 11:15 | answer | added | MichaelK | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 10:20 | answer | added | Ynneadwraith | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 8:56 | answer | added | D3f4u1t | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 8:51 | comment | added | AngelPray | ...That's pretty much how societies worked until recently (a few hundred years). | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 8:47 | history | asked | Euphoric | CC BY-SA 4.0 |