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Trying to predict human ingenuity is hard (lemmy.world)
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[–] Blaster_M 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Wright Brothers built their flying machine in a shed! With a box of bicycle parts!

[–] venoft 5 points 6 months ago

And paper airplanes (and birds...) existed for ages already, someone just needed to scale it up.

[–] Alexstarfire 3 points 6 months ago

Well I'm not Wilbur Wright.