In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop
In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop
bigthink.com In 1903, New York Times predicted that airplanes would take 10 million years to develop
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
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Key word there is "evolve" which may be reasonable with respect to natural evolution of flight but then even human assisted artificial selection operates much more efficiently than that.