Message from @ethan
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They thought the bulletholes on the crashed plane's wing were intentional
@Alexmikli Early trains, cars, airplanes and tanks were pretty far from shitty
So doesn't really aply for everything
Another funny thing Russians copied American CPUs. We know this because a developer left their intials as Easter eggs in silicone die and the Russians left it in their CPUs
Russians are trash
Basically
Why bother reverse engineering when you can just copy it whole?
Russia doesn't invent anything
Really
Communists fucked them hard
You're not wrong, yeah
well actually didn't the first couple of trains have boiler explosions on the regular?
And there were a lot of pre-Wright brother's planes that crashed constantly
I guess it really depends on what you consider the first plane and first car, too
"Pre Wright" airplanes are more like prototypes
In the dirst world war airplanes were already in vast use
Well a lot of those early cannons and rockets were essentially prototypes too
But yeah, you're right, they weren't really "known' to the public til they were at least capable of doing as advertised.
It took hundreds of years for the concept to be usefull
Like there were a lot of automatic handguns before the c93 Borschart but they fucking sucked.
You just put a engine
On a something that looked like it could fly
See what happened
"Rajneesh, how does this work?"
"Fuck man, Vishnu maybe?"
Wright brothers had the advantage of being bike makers
Making compact light weight designs
They also need combustion engine technology to become efficient enough
To make a plane you need a good car engine to be invented too
To make rockets work you need good fuel and knowledge of ballistics
but any schmuck can stick an arrow to a firework and fire off 200 from a cart
I don't know much about the Wright bros, but it sounded like they couldn't afford many engines.
And then struggled to sell the invention.
And the fucking French called fake news on them (later apologized.)
about what?
The press there, were calling them frauds, liars.
About the plane?
Yeah, that they didn't fly, their plane didn't exist, etc.
that's because Santos Dummon flew in the middle of Paris
At a time the Wrights stopped doing public demonstrations because they didn't want anyone to copy their design.