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The future is a branching path (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

first successful manned powered flight was in 1903. People have been killing themselves by strapping into gliders for centuries. there was also that French guy who flew in a hot air balloon in the 1800s.

Also, fuck the wright brothers.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Wait, why fuck the Wright brothers? I'm out of the loop

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

they were patent trolls, essentially. tried to patent the entire concept of an airplane, and tried to sue Curtiss over him creating a plane that actually didn't use the technology they had patented.

[-] ArcoIris@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Wait, really? I heard that what happened is they’d decided to be sneaky by patenting the control system for a heavier-than-air flying machine since they couldn’t patent the idea of the machine itself. Do you have sources I can research?

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Oh right, gotcha. I think I've read somewhere that they were pushed into suing by other outside influences, and that at least one of the brothers was opposed to suing at all, but that very well may have been from a whitewashed source. Either way, fuck patent trolls