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by trombone5000 1403 days ago
> Like, would you ever expect a 25 year old guy to command a spaceship?

Charles Darwin was in his early 20s, and the captain of the Beagle was only a few years older, when they blasted off to sea to do their surveys.

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Lifespan were much shorter than now ???. In your middle 20's you were practically middle age already.