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Is this the earliest recorded manned rocket flight?
by josh2600 4y ago
Is this the earliest recorded manned rocket flight?
- system2 4y agoLikely. There are so many fringe scientists in middle east who tried many experiments centuries before west rebranded them.
- gnulinux 4y agoCalling this "Middle East" is inaccurate given the article claims it happened in "Sarayburnu" which is geographically in continental Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarayburnu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarayburnu
- SaulJLH 4y agoOr Eurasia (even that's a bit of a stretch), but def not the Middle East.
- barabba 4y agoI don’t see why that would be a stretch at all.
- throwntoday 4y agoBecause you appear to be using middle-east as a catch-all for any predominantly muslim area.
- barabba 4y agoHow so? 1) The stretch in the comment I replied to was referring to calling the area below the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul as belonging to Eurasia. I simply pointed out there is no stretch in there, since it does objectively belong to Eurasia, which unlike Middle-East is far of a more settled geographical definition. 2) In my other comment you are probably referring to, I simply pointed out that the definition of "Middle East" is not set in stone, and it might include the area in question. You can double check, if you don't believe me. I never came up with my own definition of it, and I definitely would not have tossed Indonesia in there.
- barabba 4y agoThe definition of “Middle East” is a rather flexible one, and can definitely include continentally European Turkey. It’s a political concept at least as much as a geographical one.
- Bayart 4y agoTurkey is almost the definition of Near East.
- nurettin 4y agoThere is probably a Chinese story a thousand years older than this one.
- ginko 4y agoI mean, it's even linked in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu
- AzzieElbab 4y agoOf course, but if you actually read the linked article: "The possibly farcical text proceeds to describe several other fictional stories of ancient aviators.[3] A date of 2000 BCE pre-dates the emergence of writing in China by three or four centuries and pre-dates the invention of gunpowder-based rockets in China by about 3,000 years"