blaze spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: Come on Jed, you're being purposely obtuse (at least I hope so). >
No, I am serious. What proposition are you betting on: Public opinion? Thermodynamics? Rossi knowing how to fool watt meters? Or something else I have not thought of? Define your terms. Describe what it is you are betting on. > I'm betting that Rossi != Wright brothers. > Well you have a point. The Wrights were a lot more squirrely. They did not trust people as much as Rossi does, which is why they ended up losing several potential fortunes. They spent a lifetime engaged in petty arguments, first on behalf of their father in his fights in the church, then against people they should have ignored. Then against their loving sister because she had the temerity to marry in middle age. Orville finally did forgive her when she was on her deathbed, and he spoke to her for the first time in years. It was Orville and Wilbur against Everyone In the World. That's why Wilbur worked himself to death in lawsuits at age 45, and why Orville never married. See: T. Crouch, "The Bishop's Boys." People such as the Wrights are not often pretty when you look closely. Read their letters. Read Crouch. - Jed
