"What if" is the Fulcrum of Faith!
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Garth Heckman
What if?
The press called it before they even tried. On October 9, 1903 — just 69 days before the Wright Brothers and the Kitty Hawk —
New York Times published an editorial titled "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly," declaring that a working flying machine might be developed "by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years." That editorial was actually a response to the very public failure of Samuel Langley, a Smithsonian scientist whose government-funded "Aerodrome"…
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