tilthat

TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that building a flying machine would be possible in 1-10 Million years.

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To understand how ridiculous this is, the first successful powered airplane flew this same year, 1903

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You’re understating how ridiculous

it wasn’t just the same year. it was nine days later

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how do newspaper clippings from a hundred years ago violate community guidelines

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