Why does time fly by as you get older?

[RandomAnthony]

Interesting story on NPR this morning....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...

What do you think? Does time fly by as you get older? I think about time a lot...what I want to do before I die, etc. Comments?

[Kevin]

i think it has to do with looking back as you get older and looking forward when you are younger along with the feeling of time compression when you get older thinking about where you are in relation to the possible ending point (life expectancy). think about christmas, the older you are the more it flies up on you and when you are a kid it takes forever to get here. anticipation of what is to come takes longer than reality of what is here

ok... smoked a huge fatty and wrote that and now as my buzz fades i realize it made no sense. sorry

[RandomAnthony]

You didn't pass the dutchie to the left hand side?

[janine]

the theory i made up about this comes very close to the proportional theory.

[[deleted user]]

Time is a relative concept anyhow. Time isn't really flying by, it's going by really, really, really slowly, but we're too busy to notice that.

Or something like that.

[Kevin]

i passed the lefty to gus

[Catalina]

I agree with Janine. A year to a 5-year-old is 20% of its lifespan. A year to a 20-year-old is 5%.

[Kevin]

i love this convo. reminds me of the scene from animal house where they are all smoking pot and discussing how an entire universe could be in your fingernail

[[deleted user]]

Huh?

I'm hungry. Who's got Cool Whip?

[Lori]

Yo Gus. I'm on your left side. Don't bogie.

[[deleted user]]

Hoggin' the spliff is my forte.

Well, used to be my forte.

[Kevin]

i love when i can turn a thread :)

[janine]

now i want to make a spiderweb.

[Félix]

Life is like a roll of TP. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it seems to go.

[Kevin]

i must either be high or a bad rapper cause at first i thought that rhymed janine

[[deleted user]]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i must either be high or a bad rapper cause at first i thought that rhymed janine "

Well either Gus or Lori are hogging it appears, so I won't be joining you any time soon.

[janine]

and you didn't think i might be the bad rapper here? i'm flattered.

[RandomAnthony]

I tried reading this one and could have used some pre-dawn pot to help me make sense of it....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/sci...