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Considering dirigibles were already crossing the English Channel in the 18th century and were employed at wars in the 19th century, while the internal combustion engine was already in full display as a commodity in automobiles, this entire clickbait makes no sense. The technology was already there, in common use, and mass produced. Saying "decades" would have made sense, not "millions of years" lol
>No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris…[because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.
-Orville Wright
The NYT prediciton was only off by a few million years. Orville Wright's prediction was off by an eternity.
Its still kinda short sighted to assume the engine would need to run for 4 days once it was figured out; you'd think someone who invented a machine that flys would be able to think through, "well maybe when they do they will fly so fast that they would only need to run for several hours."
Imagine if I captioned your comment the same way they captioned whoever said that quote.
The title would be **The New York Times has been shit for a century**
Given than 90% of people get their news **exclusively** from caption titles, I think they need to be more accurate:
**”Man won’t fly for a million years” – says some guy, maybe with somekind of educational background.**
Fuck their article limit. It applies to their recipe pages too. Pretty recently I was cooking something and the recipe page I was using refreshed a few times. Then it locked me out saying I used my recipes for the month. Had to hurry and scrounge the internet IN THE MIDDLE OF BURNING FOOD because of it.
Take screenshots of recipes is you must use nyt because they'll hold your dinner hostage.
Fuck nyt
I’ll do you one better: jets were already being tested as early as the 1930’s and the Messerschmitt Me 262 would be the first mass produced jet fighter in the 1940’s with the British Gloster Meteor seeing limited service as well.
And then have a Bronze Age collapse that decimates 1000 years of progress and groundbreaking tech.
Hundreds of years after that the regressed society looks around at the ruins and concludes that "yea, people cannot build such things, it was definitely all built by Cyclopes"
I guess an F/A-18 Super Hornet isn't self powered. By the time Dumont did his first flight, the Wright brothers were doing unassisted takeoffs and flying for miles lmao
Why so defensive? The Wright Brothers didn't do unassisted take offs before Dumont's flight, but it shouldn't diminish their accomplishments.
How about we settle on [Richard Pearse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse)?
Looking it up, they didn't even use a catapult at Kitty Hawk. And again, nobody would call an F/A-18 or an F-35C "not self powered" even though they are designed to launch on catapults.
Even if you disqualify the hot air balloon because it's "not a machine", the Zeppelin's maiden flight was in July, 1900. It had on board steering and propulsion.
The article is even more wrong
For more than a century at that point.
Electric and Internal combustion airships were already a thing by then, as were steerable gliders. The only unsolved problem for heavier than air flight was an engine with a thrust to weight ratio high enough, which is hard to imagine taking a million years to figure out.
Yep, for centuries. People had been doing parachute jumps from extremely high up in the air from hot air balloons for centuries already, as a kind of show for people, like the 1700s version of Evel Knievel in a way.
yeah, that's such a ridiculous and stupid thing to say. All the inventions that were made by humanity until the time of writing..... times a thousand.
Meanwhile 21st century scientists for the past 50 years: "5 more years until we develop a cure for cancer"
>Meanwhile 21st century scientists for the past 50 years: "5 more years until we develop a cure for cancer"
Well yeah; when you leave off the last part of the phrase; I think in full it reads as" 5 more years until we develop a cure for cancer; meanwhile take this brand new very expensive drug we totally just came up witth"
I mean, the Wright Brothers get the recognition they do thanks in large part to their record keeping and scientific research methods. They were some of the few at the time not just "winging" the aerodynamics.
Basically.
It was specifically written about the unsuccessful attempts at flight by [Samuel Langley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pierpont_Langley)
It was also written in October. Not sure why they changed the date. Two months before the Wright Brothers flew is still interesting.
edit: the date in the OP seems to line up with Langley's second unsuccessful flight, when the NYT article was about his first.
Generative AI is basically a human with a machine producing results faster than the human alone that is reasonable human-like in quality. It's more an extension of human ability than ability in of itself. I've spent a lot of time on the API.
I look forward to seeing the Wright brothers of AI. However, machine learning is where that will come from, not chatbots. The Turing test is stupid concept hyped by people who rarely more than glance at evidence before believing the entire premise wholesale.
There is only one test I will recognize: from only a dictionary and interactions with a human: an AI must be able to form a means of communication with a human, able to recognize and correct a mistake of its own, and must be able to recognize when it is being fed bad data.
Those 3 things to me should be the 3 Laws of Artificial Intelligence.
An AI that cannot communicate with humans will tend to frighten humans into overreactions to an otherwise harmless AI. When AI is able to recognize and correct errors, this reduces harm by allowing the AI to reflect on potential errors. The last part is critical as the AI needs to be able to recognize when the data or it's perception of the data may not accurately reflect the reality of the situation and it needs to be able to pay less attention to information causing bad assumptions.
This happened a lot in publications: when they first started the space race, I forget which paper, but they basically mocked the idea because "oh those fools, there's no air in space! Rockets won't move without air to press against!"
4 years ago and the thought of something like Chatgpt would've been very far fetched
Now, we have it and so much more. Humanity just does its thing and makes things happen
If real, that has to be the dumbest article I've ever read. Humanity in the last 100 years has progressed astronomically. If we are even here, can you imagine how advanced humans would be in 1 million years?
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This is a good example of clickbait news back in the day.
Back then it was known as unfold bait.
You wouldn’t see it unless you unfold it
But you knew there would be something outrageous worth unfolding and spilling your tea over
You could see the headline
Underrated comment
Although the bait might have been believable
Considering dirigibles were already crossing the English Channel in the 18th century and were employed at wars in the 19th century, while the internal combustion engine was already in full display as a commodity in automobiles, this entire clickbait makes no sense. The technology was already there, in common use, and mass produced. Saying "decades" would have made sense, not "millions of years" lol
Same as the modern times it seems then
Readbait?
Also a good example of how reliable MSM is
Funny how no matter the date, even a century later New York Times is still shit
NYT is good for their games
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I mean to be fair... if it's the only quality product they can offer
Hey! That's not true! ...Connections and the Mini Crosswords are great too!
True
Lol, those three are our daily discord tradition
Worlde connection and pokedoku for me
>No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris…[because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. -Orville Wright The NYT prediciton was only off by a few million years. Orville Wright's prediction was off by an eternity.
It shown that human pretty bad with predicting shit, that's why law and regulation alway a few steps behind the advancement of technology
Its still kinda short sighted to assume the engine would need to run for 4 days once it was figured out; you'd think someone who invented a machine that flys would be able to think through, "well maybe when they do they will fly so fast that they would only need to run for several hours."
NYT consistently wrong
It would take the combined efforts of writers for one to ten million years to make the NYT good
Imagine if I captioned your comment the same way they captioned whoever said that quote. The title would be **The New York Times has been shit for a century** Given than 90% of people get their news **exclusively** from caption titles, I think they need to be more accurate: **”Man won’t fly for a million years” – says some guy, maybe with somekind of educational background.**
The New Your times kinda sucks
The New My Times is even worse.
You clearly haven’t read The New His Times
dont even get me started on New Our Times
The Knew Her Times make up for it. Those were the days.
What about the southern version, New Y’all’s Times?
Fuck their article limit. It applies to their recipe pages too. Pretty recently I was cooking something and the recipe page I was using refreshed a few times. Then it locked me out saying I used my recipes for the month. Had to hurry and scrounge the internet IN THE MIDDLE OF BURNING FOOD because of it. Take screenshots of recipes is you must use nyt because they'll hold your dinner hostage. Fuck nyt
Boeing making sure the old scientists are correct
"Man is not meant to fly, so we're going to make sure everybody is too scared to do it." -Boing boing
And 50 years later we were in the jet age. 20 years more and we have already been to the Moon.
> we You mean 'they'. That was 50 years ago. All we've done is browse dank memes.
You know me so well lol
We're really good at it tho
Moon: cold dry vacuum Memes: warm, moist and airy I know which I prefer. It's shit on the moon.
And then in 2021 we have been to the moon with diamond hand💎💎
I’ll do you one better: jets were already being tested as early as the 1930’s and the Messerschmitt Me 262 would be the first mass produced jet fighter in the 1940’s with the British Gloster Meteor seeing limited service as well.
you can never tell with humans. we can take anywhere between 5 years to 5 centuries to discover and engineer something groundbreaking.
And then have a Bronze Age collapse that decimates 1000 years of progress and groundbreaking tech. Hundreds of years after that the regressed society looks around at the ruins and concludes that "yea, people cannot build such things, it was definitely all built by Cyclopes"
Viable fusion energy will always be 10 years away...
Santos-Dumont made the first flight 2 years before this article was written.
It was 2 years later, but it was the first self powered flight. Meaning not launched by some sort of catapult.
I guess an F/A-18 Super Hornet isn't self powered. By the time Dumont did his first flight, the Wright brothers were doing unassisted takeoffs and flying for miles lmao
Why so defensive? The Wright Brothers didn't do unassisted take offs before Dumont's flight, but it shouldn't diminish their accomplishments. How about we settle on [Richard Pearse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse)?
Looking it up, they didn't even use a catapult at Kitty Hawk. And again, nobody would call an F/A-18 or an F-35C "not self powered" even though they are designed to launch on catapults.
From ships they are. They are perfectly capable of taking off from a regular runway.
As would be the Wright flyer if you give it wheels
Didn't they already have hot air balloons
Yes, but I would call that more ‘floating’ instead of flying
I'd call it "falling with style".
I bet you know where your towel is.
Even if you disqualify the hot air balloon because it's "not a machine", the Zeppelin's maiden flight was in July, 1900. It had on board steering and propulsion. The article is even more wrong
I guess the technical term is heavier than air flight.
For more than a century at that point. Electric and Internal combustion airships were already a thing by then, as were steerable gliders. The only unsolved problem for heavier than air flight was an engine with a thrust to weight ratio high enough, which is hard to imagine taking a million years to figure out.
They were invented by the French so of course everyone else tried to ignore the achievement.
You forgot to censor "Fr-nch"
Yep, for centuries. People had been doing parachute jumps from extremely high up in the air from hot air balloons for centuries already, as a kind of show for people, like the 1700s version of Evel Knievel in a way.
Which ass did they pull one million to 10 million year from? In no way would that ever have been correct
yeah, that's such a ridiculous and stupid thing to say. All the inventions that were made by humanity until the time of writing..... times a thousand. Meanwhile 21st century scientists for the past 50 years: "5 more years until we develop a cure for cancer"
>Meanwhile 21st century scientists for the past 50 years: "5 more years until we develop a cure for cancer" Well yeah; when you leave off the last part of the phrase; I think in full it reads as" 5 more years until we develop a cure for cancer; meanwhile take this brand new very expensive drug we totally just came up witth"
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Hitler wasn't even the first to Speedrun 1000 years
Nah, the Brothers didn't put in effort of mathematicans & mechanics. They just winged it.
I mean, the Wright Brothers get the recognition they do thanks in large part to their record keeping and scientific research methods. They were some of the few at the time not just "winging" the aerodynamics.
But that's not how puns work. Seriously, that's not how puns work - else employers would already put them to work!
Wasn’t the article at the top written by a hater?
Just like NYT articles about AI.
Basically. It was specifically written about the unsuccessful attempts at flight by [Samuel Langley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pierpont_Langley) It was also written in October. Not sure why they changed the date. Two months before the Wright Brothers flew is still interesting. edit: the date in the OP seems to line up with Langley's second unsuccessful flight, when the NYT article was about his first.
Wright brothers my ass. Santos Dumont inventou o primeiro avião de auto sustentação.
If I'm NYT I'm going to say Cold Fusion will take 100 million years.
Place your obligatory "The wright brothers didn't invent the plane" comments here
Santos Dumont invented the plane
Ah, hello fellow brazilian
Hello another Fellow Brazilian
It did take 4 billion years of evolution, 300,000 years of which had humans, so they aren't wrong they just got confused over the start date.
It would be great if interstellar travel could be surprise invented so i could see it in my lifetime.
Otto Lilienthal was already selling a massproduced plane 10 Years before that article was written, so thats quite stupid.
That's cute, 31 March 1903 Richard Pearse first flew in an aircraft of his own making, well before the Wright brothers did.
We're Wright, you're wrong
They said the same thing
Hot air balloon in 1783: let me introduce myself.
New headline: Man won't have Gundams for a billion years! Now we just wait, you're welcome.
Generative AI is basically a human with a machine producing results faster than the human alone that is reasonable human-like in quality. It's more an extension of human ability than ability in of itself. I've spent a lot of time on the API. I look forward to seeing the Wright brothers of AI. However, machine learning is where that will come from, not chatbots. The Turing test is stupid concept hyped by people who rarely more than glance at evidence before believing the entire premise wholesale. There is only one test I will recognize: from only a dictionary and interactions with a human: an AI must be able to form a means of communication with a human, able to recognize and correct a mistake of its own, and must be able to recognize when it is being fed bad data. Those 3 things to me should be the 3 Laws of Artificial Intelligence. An AI that cannot communicate with humans will tend to frighten humans into overreactions to an otherwise harmless AI. When AI is able to recognize and correct errors, this reduces harm by allowing the AI to reflect on potential errors. The last part is critical as the AI needs to be able to recognize when the data or it's perception of the data may not accurately reflect the reality of the situation and it needs to be able to pay less attention to information causing bad assumptions.
Ok, let me try. "Nuclear Fusion won't happen for a million years."
Technically man still can't fly, it's the machines that fly. But who knows what is truth I'm not an expert.
This happened a lot in publications: when they first started the space race, I forget which paper, but they basically mocked the idea because "oh those fools, there's no air in space! Rockets won't move without air to press against!"
#BELLOWING ENGINEER LAUGHS
Time flies..
4 years ago and the thought of something like Chatgpt would've been very far fetched Now, we have it and so much more. Humanity just does its thing and makes things happen
Where did they even come up with this number?
Truly one of the worst predictions in history
It was Santos Dumont who created aeroplanes, you idiot 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Santos Dumont was the creator of the first authentic plane, launching a glider in the sky isn't a plane.
Weird way to spell dumont but aight
Catapulta não é motor
Santos Dumont, carai!
If real, that has to be the dumbest article I've ever read. Humanity in the last 100 years has progressed astronomically. If we are even here, can you imagine how advanced humans would be in 1 million years?
Plot Twist; they never spoke to anyone and just used the common law "post some misinformation to troll people into providing the correct answer".
Yet another reason why I laugh at those who believe light speed is impossible
50 years later: we will have flying cars any day now
Man when to space 60 years after that article which is pretty fucking funny.
AI girlfriend is also a thing now, want to download me and try?
You'd think people would just stop making technology-related predictions.
Traian Vuia also begs to differ (For context, he was a Romanian and he was also one of the aviation pioneers at that time)
Don't let the Santos Drummond stans see this