In 1903, New York Times predicted that airplanes would take 10 million years to develop
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Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Interesting how resistant people are to progress. Why can’t they just dream and be excited?

  • piotrm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Key word there is “evolve” which may be reasonable with respect to natural evolution of flight but then even human assisted artificial selection operates much more efficiently than that.