princesamurai45
princesamurai45 t1_j2bmv1y wrote
Reply to Was Bruce Willis in Die Hard the ushering in of the modern everyman action star? by SquatOnAPitbull
I would say Clint Eastwood. He is the first Everyman tough guy I remember seeing. You could also say Paul Newman, but he is widely regarded as a very handsome man in his prime. Might take him out of the Everyman category.
princesamurai45 t1_j2143hd wrote
Reply to comment by At0m_1k in Characters that hold shows back by mranimal2
He is an old character from OG Dragonball that Goku met while going train with Karin. He like Yamaha just become cannon fodder and comic relief by Z.
princesamurai45 t1_j7sp478 wrote
Reply to What's your estimation for the minimum size of global population required for preserving modern civilization with advanced technology and medicine, and even progressing further? by Evgeneey
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1800, there was about 1 Billion people. It took until 1927 for that to double to 2 billion, and go from the cotton gin to automatic weapons. I definitely think we could go from that to the society we have today without a 4x population increase in the last 96 years. We were already making basic computers during WW2. I don’t think the growth of population is the primary driver of the development the semi conductor, or silicon wafers, or transistors, or really any of the technological hallmarks of our current civilization. The institutions and wealth available would facilitate these developments among the highly trained academics, even if the population growth from 1927 to current was cut in half or even more.