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In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop (bigthink.com)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Of course the timeframe is wrong, but we did achieve flight exactly as they predict: advancements in materials science that changed the relationship between strength and weight.

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Material science is literally magic

[–] piotrm@lemmy.world 1 points 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.