Smath74 All American 93281 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/05/connecticut-senate-passes-bill-writing-wright-brothers-out-history/ 6/5/2013 3:44:40 PM
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Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
I don't celebrate things I had nothing to do with. That would be borderline schizophrenic.
I'm Krallum and I approved this message. 6/5/2013 3:45:48 PM
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justinh524 Sprots Talk Mod 28489 Posts user info edit post |
thats ok, they still have rising sea levels in connecticut. 6/5/2013 3:46:11 PM
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Meg All American 6759 Posts user info edit post |
state's rights! woooooooooo
lolz
[Edited on June 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM. Reason : ] 6/5/2013 3:59:02 PM
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smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
They may very well be correct. The invention of powered flight is pretty unimportant these days anyway. 6/5/2013 4:02:09 PM
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ALkatraz All American 11299 Posts user info edit post |
Ohio will be even more pissed. 6/5/2013 4:08:14 PM
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Ragged All American 23473 Posts user info edit post |
So is the home phone but graham bell will always be a historic figure for it.
Fuck conneticut. 6/5/2013 4:09:28 PM
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Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
That POS never left the ground. Photo was shopped. Source: I was there. And I have a keen eye for pixel recognition. 6/5/2013 4:12:30 PM
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Førte All American 23525 Posts user info edit post |
1984, memory hole, newspeak, 2+2=5, etc 6/5/2013 4:30:59 PM
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ncsuallday Sink the Flagship 9818 Posts user info edit post |
what will the motto on our license plates be now?
If they change it, I bet it would be "The Tar Heel State" 6/5/2013 4:54:21 PM
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AstralEngine All American 3864 Posts user info edit post |
A picture of some vehicle in the air is not "proof" of anything. That thing certainly looks heavier than air, but there's no reason to believe it's not a fancy hang glider. There's no telling if it was self propelled.
I believe the account that it flew several miles is another black mark. The Wright brothers went 860 some feet in their first flight and this guy is going 2 miles 2 years before them?
mmhmm 6/5/2013 5:05:10 PM
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HCH All American 3895 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Besides, history is factual, not based on laws" |
Some of y'all need to remember this. 6/5/2013 5:10:23 PM
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smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
History is highly subjective. 6/5/2013 5:23:21 PM
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Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "History is completely subjective." |
Said the Christians.
I'm Krallum and I approved this message. 6/5/2013 5:24:08 PM
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Netstorm All American 7547 Posts user info edit post |
ONE historian unveiled controversial evidence three months ago and they decide that's good enough basis for a law? This shit be ridiculous. I think it's possible that the Wright brothers are wrongly given the first powered flight recognition, but this is not sufficient evidence nor widely embraced by historians, so why pass a law? And what's the partisan motivation for this? Tourism? 6/5/2013 5:58:03 PM
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Meg All American 6759 Posts user info edit post |
I mean, NC legislators have been acting like asses too. It's, like, their job. 6/5/2013 7:30:43 PM
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Førte All American 23525 Posts user info edit post |
shut up, Meg 6/5/2013 7:31:13 PM
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ussjbroli All American 4518 Posts user info edit post |
Seeing as how modern enthusiasts have only been able to get replicas of his designs with modern engines to fly a few hundred feet, i am gonna go ahead and call bullshit 6/5/2013 7:45:25 PM
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smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
Funnily enough Glenn Curtis used that same trick to make Langely's old Aerodrome fly, and he laughed all the way to the bank. 6/5/2013 8:05:45 PM
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ComputerGuy (IN)Sensitive 5052 Posts user info edit post |
Let connecticut burn. 6/5/2013 8:08:59 PM
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Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
Am I the only one having trouble believing the first plane to take flight in the history of mankind happened at night, on a street, in a town and nobody paid much attention to it? 
do do do do doooo...Yep, I'm the first person to fly. Time to pack this shit up and go home and never do it again...
I bet that dude had a girlfriend from Oklahoma, but she couldn't be there because she was busy doing some modeling.  6/5/2013 9:09:56 PM
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