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Ramus
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Not a fan of Skyrim...but to the ones that are.
K0rN_b4LL
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Synalon
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The 'information' here about Columbus is a common misconception and is not true. He was basically a complete moron and by all rights should have died at sea but got incredibly lucky and bumped into America instead. You can find out more about it by Googling something like "Columbus misconceptions" or even just reading his Wikipedia article.
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K0rN_b4LL
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Each dot is moving in a straight line-
Some food for thought-
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K0rN_b4LL
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K0rN_b4LL
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I am so bored.
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BlackDragon37
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A blick person is a black person whose skin is so dark, so blacker than black, that when you look at them, you'll stare at the abyss, and the abyss will stare back at you.
Ghengis_John
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Many of these are actually horrible popular misconceptions. Which is ironic, because who ever made this was trying to be a smart ass, yet wound up looking like a dumb ass. The Wright brothers for instance were not laughed at, nor did anyone doubt a machine could fly through the air. They actually had several competitors and people had been trying to build flying machines for years before theirs succeeded.
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SpaghettiViking
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What the fuck did I just watch?
K0rN_b4LL
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^ I take it you've never seen the Gmod Idiot Box before?
Jrasta111
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Well actually the way I've heard it told is that people did call them crazy not because exactly they thought a machine could fly. It was because of the way they expected to do it. You see there had been much research up until this point in time and it was widely accepted as the basis for a working model. The Wright Brothers disagreed and re-wrote the book. That's why people called them crazy. But I'm no expert on the subject.
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Ghengis_John
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Well actually the way I've heard it told is that people did call them crazy not because exactly they thought a machine could fly. It was because of the way they expected to do it. You see there had been much research up until this point in time and it was widely accepted as the basis for a working model. The Wright Brothers disagreed and re-wrote the book. That's why people called them crazy. But I'm no expert on the subject.
I read thier biography. What they did differently was that they used the scientific approach, built a wind tunnel, and models, compiled tables. Their closest competitor was a German who died essentially trying to build the same craft they did, with the exception being he was trying to get the tail to do all the steering. That is not the same thing as being "condemned and ridiculed for believing a machine could fly.".
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