Time since first Boeing 747 entering service

Time since first Boeing 747 entering service (54 y)

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If Time since first Boeing 747 entering service (54 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Time since the start of the last glacial period (Ice Age) (110,000 y)...more would be 2000 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since first domestication of dogs (27,000 y)...more would be 500 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since first domestication of horses (5,500 y)...more would be 100 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more would be 100 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more would be 40 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the birth of Copernicus (550 y)...more would be 10 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the Caxton's first edition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (548 y)...more would be 10 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the birth of Darwin (215 y)...more would be 4 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the birth of Dickens (212 y)...more would be 4 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the first fixed wing scheduled air service (110 y)...more would be 2 x Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the first human walked on the moon (55 y)...more would be about as big as Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since first email sent (53 y)...more would be about as big as Time since first Boeing 747 entering service
  • Time since the launch of Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004 (53 y)...more would be about as big as Time since first Boeing 747 entering service

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