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I like this guy. Everyone is making fun of him for "not understanding" but what better way to gain understanding than direct experimentation. Yeah, he could stu

I like this guy. Everyone is making fun of him for "not understanding" but what better way to gain understanding than direct experimentation. Yeah, he could study other people's work, and recreate it...but following a recipe, well, you end up baking someone else's cake.

onecommentman 5y ago
There used to be a lot of these sort of things in the early days of aviation and automobiles…1890s-1930s. The magazine “Modern Mechanix and Invention Magazine” had some great covers with similar retro future schemes. Nineteen silly one-off ideas for every brilliant one is still great odds for a society, even if the death rate among experimental aviators was distressingly high. Let me also make a nod to “Everyday Mechanics” magazine in the 1910s for similar ideas…for kids. Build your own small gas engine by casting your own parts. Build a wireless torpedo. Build a radiotelephone. Build a fan-driven snowmobile…