The Daily Populous Thursday May 29th, 2025 night edition
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zenos_dog on May 28th, 2025 at 02:31 UTC »

Must have been a hell of a feeling to trek across the plains with a horse drawn cart at 10 miles a day and then see those mountains on the horizon.

Dr_Zoidberg003 on May 28th, 2025 at 02:34 UTC »

Sometimes on a clear day, if you look out on the horizon, you can see the back of your own head

PoetryOfLogicalIdeas on May 28th, 2025 at 03:36 UTC »

My great grandfather was born in 1880 and lived to be 108.

We drove him from his home in the northeast through the western US. He was simply dumbstruck by the vastness of the Great Plains. He would get out at the frequent pee breaks and just look up and around and gasp that "I had no idea that there was a place where you could see all the way to the curve of the earth and not see a single tree or hill."

He was born into the world of horse and buggy and lived to see space travel become routine, but this is the thing that he commented on the most.