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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Climate change, same sex marriage (though, perhaps not as shocking as some might expect, ditto anything trans related), potential mars colonization, coming off the heels of the Spanish flu, COVID news would probably freak em out. Ooh, the USSR being gone, and China being a world super power. The USSR would have been new to them, and it collapsing less than a century later would probably feel quite odd, especially if you could make them understand just how incredibly advanced the USSR got in such a short amount of time. Tons of stuff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

potential mars colonization

Yeah because we're real close to doing that in 2023

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah because we're real close to doing that in 2023

my-hero has been hyping Martian adventures only 20 years from now for... over 20 years now.

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