# Snobbery of chronology...can't believe people used to believe that **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snobbery-of-chronology-cant-believe-people-used-to-believe-that/672367 "2013-10-27T12:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snobbery-of-chronology-cant-believe-people-used-to-believe-that/672367/61 "2013-10-29T12:19:51Z")
Oh, I think humans will still be avidly killing each other in the Future. I’d like to think that the beings/replicons of the new era will be astonished that humans were so devoted to conspiracy theories. Except they will probably be grousing how life spans would be more than 200 years, except Big Photon is suppressing the cure for premature syngen failure. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snobbery-of-chronology-cant-believe-people-used-to-believe-that/672367/62 "2013-10-29T14:21:39Z")
Back then, they were all made of meat. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snobbery-of-chronology-cant-believe-people-used-to-believe-that/672367/63 "2013-10-29T15:05:09Z")
> [@chargerrich](#): > > Didn’t they try that around 1940… in Germany? ☹ It was quite popular on a more limited scale in the U.S. also, usually among people who considered themselves Progessives. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snobbery-of-chronology-cant-believe-people-used-to-believe-that/672367/64 "2013-10-30T02:07:04Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > It was quite popular on a more limited scale in the U.S. also, usually among people who considered themselves Progessives. University educated character I knew, born in the 20’s, believed (post war) that the dumb Americans were going to out-breed the smart Americans. That’s the kind of thing that worries smart people more than it worries dumb people. He was a millennialist not an evolutionist, so he didn’t have any theological reasons to worry about breeding, he was just responding to the common beliefs of smart Americans at that time. I like to think that educated Americans have a better understanding of the effect of ‘regression towards the mean’ than they did in the 50’s, but maybe I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snobbery-of-chronology-cant-believe-people-used-to-believe-that/672367/65 "2013-10-30T11:53:02Z")
> [@Captain Kirk](#): > > They used to say if man could fly, he’d have wings, but he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn’t reached the moon, or that we hadn’t gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That’s like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great grandfather used to. > **["Star Trek" Return to Tomorrow (TV Episode 1968) - Quotes - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708445/quotes/)** > > Return to Tomorrow: Directed by Ralph Senensky. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Diana Muldaur. The Enterprise is guided to a distant, long-dead world where survivors of an extremely ancient race - existing only as disembodied... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snobbery-of-chronology-cant-believe-people-used-to-believe-that/672367.md?page=3)