http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/05/connecticut-senate-passes-bill-writing-wright-brothers-out-history/

6/5/2013 3:44:40 PM

I don't celebrate things I had nothing to do with. That would be borderline schizophrenic.

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6/5/2013 3:45:48 PM

thats ok, they still have rising sea levels in connecticut.

6/5/2013 3:46:11 PM

state's rights! woooooooooo


lolz

[Edited on June 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM. Reason : ]

6/5/2013 3:59:02 PM

They may very well be correct. The invention of powered flight is pretty unimportant these days anyway.

6/5/2013 4:02:09 PM

Ohio will be even more pissed.

6/5/2013 4:08:14 PM

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

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

1984, memory hole, newspeak, 2+2=5, etc

6/5/2013 4:30:59 PM

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

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

Quote :

"Besides, history is factual, not based on laws"

Some of y'all need to remember this.

6/5/2013 5:10:23 PM

History is highly subjective.

6/5/2013 5:23:21 PM

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"History is completely subjective."

Said the Christians.

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6/5/2013 5:24:08 PM

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

I mean, NC legislators have been acting like asses too. It's, like, their job.

6/5/2013 7:30:43 PM

shut up, Meg

6/5/2013 7:31:13 PM

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

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

Let connecticut burn.

6/5/2013 8:08:59 PM

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"...it rose over the darkened streets of Bridgeport, Conn., and covered an estimated 1.5 miles at a height of 50 feet, he said. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/05/connecticut-senate-passes-bill-writing-wright-brothers-out-history/#ixzz2VOTFPVky "

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