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by landryraccoon 2514 days ago
Your point is that since it wasn’t able to work before, it’ll never work? I mean, Leonardo Da Vinci wasn’t able to build a working flying machine, does that mean the Wrights were dumb to think they would succeed where Leonardo failed?
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If the wrights had taken Da Vinci's design and rebuilt the invention without understanding why it failed the first time, absolutely.