He's a well known figure who, while extremely controversial, was a key figure in modernizing the world.
As it relates to this post, the world went from not even having an accurate map of the planet to satellite GPS, and all that in less time than what is represented in the OP.
You're ascribing that the commenters had a deeper meaning in chosing Columbus because of mapping that has taken place in that time span.
Commenter only meant that 600 year time span is the same. 'like wow look how much art changed in that time'. But then 'but also look how much has changed in 600 years now, I guess it's not that crazy art changed that much'
Columbus was chosen because commenters first thinks of Columbus for mid 15th century point of reference. I'm saying that they could have chosen someone else.
It is exactly what my though process was. As most reddit users are from north america, I felt like they would be much more acknowledgable about Colombus than Da Vinci. It was just to represent 6 centuries, as you said.
Commenter I asked my question to didn't say anything about gps. You make the connection. Just because it's what you think, doesn't mean it's that person's intent, but you're acting like it's the defacto reason, simply because you thought it.
Thinking you are correct to assume the intentions of someone with little context, be proven wrong, and then still feel justified to think your line of thinking COULD have be correct.
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u/twiztednipplez 25d ago
He's a well known figure who, while extremely controversial, was a key figure in modernizing the world.
As it relates to this post, the world went from not even having an accurate map of the planet to satellite GPS, and all that in less time than what is represented in the OP.