Rewinding to Sunday, October 18, 1987…
Sunday · San Luis Obispo, California, United States
Zac, you arrived on October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 82°F in San Luis Obispo.
82°F/ 28°C high
Low of 56°F · dry · wind up to 7 mph
The sun rose at 7:11 am and set at 6:24 pm — 11h 13m of daylight.
Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
13% lit · 26.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from San Luis Obispo that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 247,483 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Lost In Emotion”
by Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Here I Go Again”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
SAN LUIS OBISPO · 1987-10-18
BREAD COSTS 3.3× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
2,037 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
39 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Libra.
Star sign
Libra
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Fire Rabbit
Birthstone
Opal
for your month
Birth flower
Marigold
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Sunday
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