“The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.” KnowsShouldYearsReasonProblemLightEarthParticularCivilizationMessagesYears AgoInstrumentsRadioFasterTelescopesLight Years Author:Paul Davies
“Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.” YearsFirstsHas BeensSocialThousandMessagesClothesSolutionsEvidenceYears AgoDirectTwentiesClothingsThousand YearsConveying Author:E. J. W. Barber
“Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his message was "hope and change." People wanted change, for good reasons, and they wanted hope. Disillusioned with what took place, they turned to someone else who was offering hope and change. When they're disillusioned with that, it depends on what activists and others do.” PeopleYearsReasonWantedRememberCoursesDependsTrumpMessagesYears AgoEightActivistOfferingDisillusionedHope And Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“There was a girl that bullied me years ago, and I was going through, you know, just the standard Instagram wormhole on her account, going way back into her photos and, yes, ended up liking something and I was like, "No!" I just wanted to disconnect my Instagram - Oh, and then she wrote me a message saying, "It's so great to see you doing well." I was like, "Nope, nope, you don't get to say that now!"” KnowsWayYearsWellsWantedGirlMessagesStandardsYears AgoAccountsInstagramBulliedWormholes Author:Bella Heathcote
“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.” IfsYearsMayHappensTodaySocialHoursWeekMinutesMediaMonthsMessagesMouthsYears AgoTwentiesSocial MediaCustomersHorribleSecondsWord Of Mouth Author:Bill Capodagli
“I think the Bible is completely inspired by God in its overall messages. But, for the people of those days to know what was going to happen 4,000 years later in a world of astronomy or subatomic particles. They didn't have access to the knowledge that we presently have about geology. So, we know now that the world was created many of billions of years ago, 13 or 14 billion years ago. As far as they knew, the earth was the center of the universe. They thought that stars were little twinkling things in the sky where as now we know stars are very distant and much larger than the earth.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldYearsLittlesHappensEarthUniverseStarsSkyMessagesYears AgoInspiredAccessBillionsAstronomyParticlesGeologyCenter Of The UniverseTwinklingSubatomic Particles Author:Jimmy Carter
“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.” WorldYearsPoetryLonelinessMessagesYears AgoLonelyPassingPassingsAliensHostileGave UpFeeling LonelyBeing Lonely Author:Russell Baker