Is the Shelby cobra GT.350 the most typical car in the world? Or was that car the most common car in the world or even in the USA when it first time rolled out from the factory in 1965? That legendary car is back in production again. But the image portrays the 1965 model. The car is classic, but are those classics very often today?
Media is the place where the extraordinary is turning regular things. Typical news and articles are handling superlatives or something very extraordinary things. Things like the fastest aircraft, tallest buildings, and tallest trees fill all articles. When we are looking at media, we might think that regular people are misters or they are some kind of president. We might think that a regular Russian is Vladimir Putin. When we look at war movies we might think, that all U.S. soldiers are fighter pilots or some SEAL team members.
We might think that a regular person in the western world is some kind of millionaire. If we look at car magazines we might think that all people are driving muscle cars. We might think that Shelby GT.350 is the most common car in the world. That car is over 50 years old. And maybe somebody put there the electric engine series. But otherwise, those cars are mainly in a museum or some movies.
Is SR-71 a typical aircraft? That aircraft is well-known. But is it a typical U.S. aircraft, even in the military sector?
How good a question. The universe where we live is the only known universe in the third dimension. Because we don't know other universes, the universe where we are living is typical for us. Same way if we only see skyscrapers and we ever go out from an area where are skyscrapers we might think that skyscraper is the typical house where people are living.
If we see only people who are similar to us, we might think that we are typical people. The thing is that we might think very extraordinary things very ordinary. When we are reading about things like scientific writing we might think that typical researchers are working with a Large Hadron accelerator in CERN. And typical physicists are working with some kind of Higgs boson research.
Almost all published scientific stories about particles are connected with the Large Hadron collider and Higgs boson. But we can say that those things are not typical. They are the most high-energy particle and the most high-energy tools in physics. But the fact is that those superlatives are far away from the typical scientific tools.
Same way if we think about the SR-71 "Blackbird" and the stories that are published about the fastest aircraft in the world we might think that the typical recon plane is some kind of SR-71. The fact is that the most unusual airplane in the world is not the SR-71 that is retired.
Superlatives are fascinating things. They are always interesting. We might find the tallest tree in the world from the Guinness book of records or Wikipedia.
That tree is Coastal redwood in California. But regular trees are a little bit shorter. But what if we spend our entire life in the forest where are only coastal redwoods? We might think that coastal redwoods are typical trees on our planet.
So extraordinary fills most of the articles in the world. And that means we are facing one thing. Most of the articles and facts that are searched and written handle very extraordinary things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_trees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Mustang
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