That's pretty crazy - even for an editorial - still crazy but different than a "hard news" story. Thanks for the link.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Darryl Zanuck, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946
"Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years."
Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
I loled, but not so fast. Helium wastage should be a federal crime. Hydrogen is not as dangerous as you think. Manned ballooney or blimpey aircraft are probably a mistake, but drones are a different matter. I for one would rather play with an r/c dirigible than r/c quadcopter. Endurance and fuel economy are great. As for manned zeppelins: An irresistible alternative to living in a house boat, especially if self-sufficient with photovoltaics.
The Hindenburg disaster happened, because the bags with the H2 were contained in highly flammable dry cloth, wood and glue. Hydrogen is a powerful
explosive when mixed with air, but usually isn't in the bags. I once read about safe experiments with hot carbonmonoxide for bouyancy, but I don't think they ended well.
OP references Doakes, a detective character from the show Dexter. The show is about a serial killer, named after the title, who only kills bad guys and Doakes, after long suspecting him, finally catches him at the end of Season 1 or Season 2 and yells “Surprise Mother fucker!” It’s a great show and sadly they didn’t make any more seasons and nothing else happened. Especially the gay lumberjack, that didn’t happen the most.
More like Democrats in that time period. The Atlantic started out by promoting the progressive idea that going to fight in Europe was heroic. Thanks to Trump we're actually going back to the old party positions.
To put everything into perspective when it comes to science, I always think, the universe is supposedly billions of years old or something, humans have been around for a miniscule fractions of that time, and civilized humans even less. You're going to tell me that humans have discovered everything or a large amount of knowledge of how the universe works in that short space of time?
Its been even crazier in the last hundred years. In a single lifetime we went from being a horse-and-buggy civilization to having human boots landing on the moon.
Here you see what "journalism" is: In the morning you start off with an empty sheet of paper and you have to somehow fill it. Then you think of what currently concerns people and begin writing a story in this area keeping in mind that it has to catch the eye and sell in the end. And if you sit in a publishing house in New York then it's unlikely that your story reflects the reality.
I even re-invented "journalism" together with my brother when we were at school. We hat a Commodore C64 and a "publishing software" where you could create a "newspaper" with text and black/white "pictures". So we had to search something to write. Forest dieback was a fashionable topic at this time so we wrote something like "more and more tries die" and something has to be done about it, even when we have never analyzed the health of trees in a real forest. But we printed it on a needle printer and distributed some copies to classmates. Of course it was fun to do it, but we were a bit late. Forest dieback was already debunked as fake news which we didn't know yet, so the next best approach would have been to copy something from the newspaper of our parents (that of course copies from elsewhere, my parents still read the same newspaper and it brought the story about Giuliani's hair dye, here in Germany) ;)
"Who wants to hear actors talk?" -- Charlie Chaplin
Supersonic aircraft are aerodynamically impossible. Schools will never have computers in class because vandals would break them. Trains can't move faster than 40 mph because draft evacuates passenger cabins and thus suffocate riders. Television is a rather theoretical proposition that can never work in practice. Nobody will ever pay for "sex by phone" whatever that's supposed to mean, Mr Warhol.
UPDATE: The internet is not practical without a table-of-contents. People will keep reading newspapers for information and will read bloggers for laughs.
I doubt very much this is real - but it is a moderately good shit post that may turn into a diamond in one to ten billion years.
http://www.bretswanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Flying-Machines-Which-Do-Not-Fly-graphic-NYT-1903-headline-2.0.pdf
That's pretty crazy - even for an editorial - still crazy but different than a "hard news" story. Thanks for the link.
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
Darryl Zanuck, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946
Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
I'd trade my TV for a nuclear vacuum. For sure.
Maybe a shop vac, otherwise I fear I would lose carpet.
The Iran Deal happened because Obama was afraid Iran would create nuclear vacuums and destroy American vacuum industry.
Obama may have just saved American economy.
Facebook uses CNN op-eds as "facts" for fact-checkers.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Another one I like is "Good luck, Mr Gorsky", as in "I will give you oral sex when the neighbor's boy walks on the moon".
So they don't know what a zeppelin or hot air balloon is, got it.
There was lighter than air travel already - I guess NYT was focusing on fixed wing flight. The million year time frame...just seems unhinged, lol
"Presented without evidence."
Lighter-than-air vs. heavier-than-air was a religious war like pistol vs. revolver or *bsd vs. linux.
Yeah, I wish we lived in a world that had more dirigibles - minus the whole use of hydrogen gas thing. Damn helium embargo.
I loled, but not so fast. Helium wastage should be a federal crime. Hydrogen is not as dangerous as you think. Manned ballooney or blimpey aircraft are probably a mistake, but drones are a different matter. I for one would rather play with an r/c dirigible than r/c quadcopter. Endurance and fuel economy are great. As for manned zeppelins: An irresistible alternative to living in a house boat, especially if self-sufficient with photovoltaics.
The Hindenburg disaster happened, because the bags with the H2 were contained in highly flammable dry cloth, wood and glue. Hydrogen is a powerful explosive when mixed with air, but usually isn't in the bags. I once read about safe experiments with hot carbonmonoxide for bouyancy, but I don't think they ended well.
Upvote for superior usage of Doakes’ best line.
I love how that show ended after that season and nothing happens and he didn’t become a gay lumberjack.
This is my favorite comment haha
Lol, what’s that in reference to?
OP references Doakes, a detective character from the show Dexter. The show is about a serial killer, named after the title, who only kills bad guys and Doakes, after long suspecting him, finally catches him at the end of Season 1 or Season 2 and yells “Surprise Mother fucker!” It’s a great show and sadly they didn’t make any more seasons and nothing else happened. Especially the gay lumberjack, that didn’t happen the most.
Haha, the hilarious part is I watched the whole series. I remember the gay lumberjack now. Hahaha. Thanks for the explanation, it all makes sense now!
I’m sorry I brought up those terrible memories after you successfully repressed them. But now we can suffer together.
Journalists were low quality, low knowledge idiots back then and its the same now.
Always has been.
🔫
Even Jefferson knew
They also said it wouldn’t snow anymore in 2009.
Lol, but small detail, the oil wasnt a discovered till the 20s, and its been downhill since
More like Democrats in that time period. The Atlantic started out by promoting the progressive idea that going to fight in Europe was heroic. Thanks to Trump we're actually going back to the old party positions.
Tesla had figured out magneto-gravitics around the same time, but that was black shelved by jp morgan and westinghouse.
Richard Pearce even had his plane hopping before then.
Didn't get the sustained flight the wright brothers got. But was a bit earlier.
A retard had to have composed that article.
or a journalist, but then again whats the difference!
to be fair we still have 0 fuckin' idea how planes stay in the air.
To put everything into perspective when it comes to science, I always think, the universe is supposedly billions of years old or something, humans have been around for a miniscule fractions of that time, and civilized humans even less. You're going to tell me that humans have discovered everything or a large amount of knowledge of how the universe works in that short space of time?
Its been even crazier in the last hundred years. In a single lifetime we went from being a horse-and-buggy civilization to having human boots landing on the moon.
Shit flies, motherfucker!
Here you see what "journalism" is: In the morning you start off with an empty sheet of paper and you have to somehow fill it. Then you think of what currently concerns people and begin writing a story in this area keeping in mind that it has to catch the eye and sell in the end. And if you sit in a publishing house in New York then it's unlikely that your story reflects the reality. I even re-invented "journalism" together with my brother when we were at school. We hat a Commodore C64 and a "publishing software" where you could create a "newspaper" with text and black/white "pictures". So we had to search something to write. Forest dieback was a fashionable topic at this time so we wrote something like "more and more tries die" and something has to be done about it, even when we have never analyzed the health of trees in a real forest. But we printed it on a needle printer and distributed some copies to classmates. Of course it was fun to do it, but we were a bit late. Forest dieback was already debunked as fake news which we didn't know yet, so the next best approach would have been to copy something from the newspaper of our parents (that of course copies from elsewhere, my parents still read the same newspaper and it brought the story about Giuliani's hair dye, here in Germany) ;)
"Who wants to hear actors talk?" -- Charlie Chaplin
Supersonic aircraft are aerodynamically impossible. Schools will never have computers in class because vandals would break them. Trains can't move faster than 40 mph because draft evacuates passenger cabins and thus suffocate riders. Television is a rather theoretical proposition that can never work in practice. Nobody will ever pay for "sex by phone" whatever that's supposed to mean, Mr Warhol.
UPDATE: The internet is not practical without a table-of-contents. People will keep reading newspapers for information and will read bloggers for laughs.
It was a “scientific consensus”.