"There are now, for example, more than six million articles published in well over 100,000 scientific journals each year."
From: Why people believe weird things, Michael Shermer.
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Transportation speed has also shown geometric progression, with most of the change being made in the last 1 percent of human history. French historian Fernand Braudel tells us, for example, that "Napoleon moved no faster than Julius Caesar" (1981, p. 429). But in the twentieth century the speed of transportation has increased astronomically (figuratively and literally), as the following list shows: :
1784 Stagecoach .................. 10 mph
1825 Steam locomotive ............ 13 mph
1870 Bicycle ..................... 17 mph
1880 Steam-powered train ......... 100 mph
1906 Steam-powered automobile..... 127 mph
1919 Early aircraft............... 164 mph
1938 Airplane .................... 400 mph
1945 Combat airplane ............. 606 mph
1947 Bell X-l rocket-plane ....... 769 mph
1960 Rocket....................... 4,000 mph
1985 Space shuttle................ 18,000 mph
2000 TAU deep-space probe......... 225,000 mph
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