I'm amazed that it took so long for mankind to figure out flying. We've had the necessary materials since the Neanderthals, and the principle is pretty obvious. If you showed an ancient Greek a modern glider, he'd probably say: Of course, I could have thought of that. But they never quite pulled off the greatest dream of man over all those centuries. When you consider how advanced mathematics were thousands of years before anybody flew, it seems like the whole species had a brain fart on flying.
Glenn wrote:I'm amazed that it took so long for mankind to figure out ...
I can't explain how we figured out the orbits of the planets, yet didn't figure out germ theory. Seems that the everyday man would figure out how "filth = sickness" but they didn't until late in the game.
Einstein's theories where non sequtuer. Coming long before the observations could prove them correct.
In the future looking back, what are we obviously missing out on?
Jim wrote:I hope you weren't drinking something sticky...
It was Coke Zero...
Busto wrote:
Somebody please hand me a Kleenex. My monitor just got sprayed.
Easy there Pee Wee.
...just like Doug and Paul Rubens were drinking when Mr. Playhouse was Busto'd for wanking in the cinema. Doug managed to teleport out of there before the constabulary arrived on the scene of the offending act.
