On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Joshua Cude is reminiscent of the old geezers who righteously proclaimed > from their wheelchairs that man would never fly, set in their sclerotic > attitudes pressed into their brains through years behind the reins of their > horse drawn wagons. > > > You should keep an open mind to the possibility that cold fusion is not the Wright brothers' airplane. Maybe it's Blondlott’s N-rays. It’s Fedyakin’s polywater. It’s the alchemists’ gold from lead. It’s Lorentz’s ether. It’s Le Verrier’s planet vulcan. It’s Popoff’s faith healing. It’s L Ron Hubbard’s Xenu. It’s Uri Geller’s bent spoon. It’s Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. It's Agricola's dowsing. It's Hahnemann's homeopathy. It’s Wakefield’s autism from vaccines… Remember Asimov's comment: to be a persecuted genius, it is not enough to be persecuted. And by the way, it was not only geezers who were skeptical of aviation. Wilbur Wright said in 1901, "If man ever flies, it will not be within our lifetime, not within a thousand years." Meanwhile, Langley, a pioneer of aviation, started investigating aerodynamics as his second career. He was near 70 (and a strong advocate) when the Wrights first flew.
