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I am afraid I am not in the flight for “aerial navigation”. I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in a
by madaxe_again 10y ago
I am afraid I am not in the flight for “aerial navigation”. I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the aëronautical Society.
What precisely is Stross talking about other than the engineering and economic realities of our time? No physical law prohibits interstellar travel.
When did I say faster-than-light travel?
- icebraining 10y agoThe person you replied to was talking about the physical limits, and you replied "in the same vein".
- bronson 10y agoYou said, "proved that heavier-than-air flying machines were physically impossible". That's rather an extreme statement that isn't supported by the passage you quoted or, it seems, what you're saying now.