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Where Are The Edges Of Today's Technology World?
Veeru writes "As
mentioned on Nova,
my great-great-grandfather Amos Ives
Root published the first eye witness account of the Wright Brothers flight
almost 100 years ago. Scientific
American had rejected
his article as 'unbelievable' and 'having no practical application'. The secretive Wright Brothers
allowed Amos to publish
the article in his own Gleanings Bee magazine instead. Because of his objective account, other
experimenters may not have received the credit
they deserved. I recently realized
that Amos was intent on investigating
the highest tech advances of the day and that the airplane was the most
advanced phenomenon he could find. If
Amos were alive today, what obscure technology would he be
pursuing?"
Well, if your grandfather were still alive today, I imagine he would be most interested medical technology.
specifically, in the next generation of Viagra, Rogaine, and the technology to keep human heads alive in jars as foretold by Futurama.
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As mentioned on Nova, my great-great-grandfather Amos Ives Root published the first eye witness account of the Wright Brothers flight almost 100 years ago.
Score:-1 Buffing my own pole.
Excessive forking causes un-wanted children.
I think Billy the Bigmouth talking bass would really blow that dudes mind...
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Why the fuck would anyone want to come here/now?
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
Haven't you ever seen Star Trek IV?
They're all back in 1986.
Gliding is just falling gracefully.
Excessive forking causes un-wanted children.
Scientific American had rejected his article as 'unbelievable' and 'having no practical application'.
Hmmm, and you are the great-great-grandson of Mr. Root? I wonder...the reason why all of my good slashdot story submissions get bounced every freakin' time. Maybe CmdrTaco and pals are the great-great-grandsons of those same Scientific American editors!
This may seem obvious to us today...
Apparently not:
Feel free to mod this +1 Scary.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
Help, I'm dying of polio!
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Stop dropping hints to these primatives or I'm going to have to report you to the Continuity Monitors.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
On the other hand, the Centre of the Known Universe is here, in some podunk called Rockall (motto: "There's fuck all in Rockall").
Cherokee Indians claim that the Center of the World (and therefore the known universe) is about ten miles north-northwest of Elberton, Georgia, near a bizarre roadside attraction called the Georgia Guidestones.
According to my deranged ex-fiancee, however, the center of the known universe is wherever the hell she happens to be at the moment. In other words, the center of the known universe is underneath whatever guy she met not twenty minutes ago.
So opinions vary, as do spellings. Personally, I'm going to agree with the aboriginal Americans, because I can get there in about two hours. See, there's nothing like being near the CotKU without actually having to be there. It's kinda like being in the suburbs.
This is not my sandwich.