July
@july
"Nobody will fly for a thousand years!" - Wilbur Wright in 1901, reflecting on the Wright brothers' initial glider experiments at Kitty Hawk, NC
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Drew Volpe
@drew
“As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket is a practicable and therefore promising device. It is when one considers the multiple-charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt ... for after the rocket quits our air and really starts on its journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to re-action, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react ... Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” -- New York Times Editorial, 1920
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cqb
@cqb
Weren't people already doing balloons at this point too? Or did that somehow not count?
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DV
@degenveteran.eth
I have yet to see a half person half bird fly
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Funut
@funut.eth
“Never say never.” Humans are a fountain of surprises.
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp
lol, didn’t know the name Kitty Hawk came from there thank you 🙏🏾
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Jake Casey
@jakeacasey
Have you read about this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse
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Ayann 🎩
@ayann
Never ever no one can
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Hurric4n3 🌊✨🌪️✨🌊
@hurric4n3ike
“We’re never getting rid of Student Loan Debt for a thousand years!” Me: Yeah Right: https://flaunch.gg/base/coin/0x03315307b202bf9c55ebebb8e9341d30411a0bc4
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Diana Ⓜ️🎩🔵
@dianaa
This quote is a sign of frustration , when a human even an expert like Wilbur Wright faces difficulties .
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D-wayñe 🎩🕴
@drrrner
Little did he know, just two years later he would help humankind take to the skies.
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