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Message 2133856 - Posted: 13 Mar 2024, 16:15:10 UTC

We already had this prophetic post on 2019-02-20 by Michael Watson, here in this very thread:
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[...] but the history of the development of technology suggests that it doesn't always go as expected.

I recall reading that the well-funded and famous Professor Langley thought that he would invent sustained powered flight, but his planes just plopped into the Potomac River. It was for two obscure, self-funded bicycle mechanics to actually solve that problem; the Wright brothers.
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