Posts Tagged 'Advancement'  December 27, 2011  186,282.4 Miles
Per Second  Let's say there are 2495 miles separating me and the
world's foremost authority on orthopedics who lives in
Vancouver, Canada. If I needed some medical advice for how to
remove a screwdriver from the palm of my hand that was the
result of a a Christmas toy with "some assembly required," I'd
be pretty happy I live in the year 2011. Here are a few of the
communication methods that I may have settled with in years
past:  On Foot: The average human walks 3.5 mph sustainable.
Using this method it would take a messenger 29.7 days to get a
description of the problem and a drawing of the damage to that
doctor if the messenger walked non-stop. Because the doctor in
this theoretical scenario is the only person on the planet who
knows how to perform the screwdriver removal surgery, the doctor
would have to accompany the messenger back to Texas, and I am
fairly sure by the time they arrived, they'd have to visit a
grave with a terrible epitaph lik