![]() ![]() In fact, most scientists continued to believe that flying was impossible for several years after the Wrights were flying on a daily basis in front of thousands of witnesses. (An interesting side note: In the Spring 1999 issue of Exercise Protocol, Arthur Jones stated in his article Strength Testing VII - "Eventually, the Wright Brothers did build an airplane that would fly, but only after many years of trial and error tinkering, with no slightest help from the scientific community. ![]() Think of what is actually involved in television: the artificial generation of radio and TV waves, inserting perfect color images and sound into the waves then broadcasting them to every millimeter of space in a prescribed area - and so on. ![]() The idea of an actual television never, ever occurred to them because there was no imitation of it in nature, nothing that existed provided the slightest clue that someday there might exist such a superlative, unrivalled device. It's not that they questioned the possibility, or plausibility, it might happen, as was the case with the airplane after all, men had been attempting to simulate the flight of birds since time immemorial. It wasn't that many decades ago that the philistine public had the attitude: "Go to the moon? Impossible!" And what about the television which, to my mind, is the greatest invention in history? Before its invention, the overwhelming, predominant majority never even conceived that the television might some day exist. Damned few, aside from the literal tiny minority of scientists researching those areas. Prior to the advent of most - no, all! - of this century's greatest scientific discoveries, e.g., the airplane, the radio, the television, interplanetary travel and personal computers, how many of the great American unwashed would have granted any plausibility to such. ![]()
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