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In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop (bigthink.com)
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[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Of course the timeframe is wrong, but we did achieve flight exactly as they predict: advancements in materials science that changed the relationship between strength and weight.