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by mechanical_fish
6187 days ago
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Edwardian Science and technology was the last time we actually had real progress in science and technology... Is anyone else driven into fits of giggles by the sight of someone typing this phrase into the Internet? Meanwhile, Wolfram Alpha continues to please. Google tells me that if you type the phrase "life expectancy France 1910" into Wolfram Alpha the number "51.37 years" comes out. 17.3% of French children born in 1910 failed to live beyond age ten! Someone should go back in time and explain to these kids, and their mothers, how great it is to live in a "high civilization". (For the curious: The life expectancy number for the UK was 54 years in 1910. Alpha doesn't seem to return a contemporary result for the USA: it keeps giving me 1933 numbers, by which time US life expectancy was 61 years and the death rate by age 10 was only 8.4% in the USA. Modern numbers: France in 2006: 81 years, 0.48% dead by age 10; USA in 2005: 78 years, 0.87% dead by age 10.) |
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