We've Come Far Since the Wright Brothers -- NOT.
The whole aircraft industry is suffering for want on one honest statement: "We're doing this all wrong."
Because sooner or later someone else is going to come along from the other homoginous societies with a completely different concept that will render
your crowning achievements dead and obsolete. We all have to just get it that no matter how good something is, or how monumental or great -- what? That's right. It's a flop, it's a transition, it's nothing compared to what could be done next, it's just a step on the road of progress.
It wasn't the seven forty seven, it was how it was made. It was how it was flown. It was how the airport system functioned and was built around it. It was how adaptable it was.
If you could make them in a different way without sacrificing safety or quality, three hundred
interchangeable four seven modules, you could have sold them at two-thirds the price and still made a twenty percent profit. And that's just for openers.
I heard a radio interview once where a scientist interjected along the way that while they were planning something at a meeting, their boss piped up with the classic quip: "I'm no scientist, but...". Well, there you go. That's the note of doom right there. That's the end of anything great you could have
accomplished.
Innovation as unusual is the description of daily business in the tech world. Don't you understand that these guys and gals don't make anything unless they're excited about it? But the people who aren't scientists are in the wrong line of work if they're into technology. Everybody should be a scientist. Especially management in any science business.
What are they doing there if they aren't scientists? What idiot hired them? Get rid of them. There is no excuse for that. The only reason why they aren't scientists is because they're just plain LAZY. LAZY, indifferent, careless, unprofessional, incompetent. The list goes on. Get rid of them. Get rid of them now if you want to survive as a technology.
Those parasites worm their way to the top and in order for their hustle and their illusion to work they have to belittle the very people that are the life blood of the
operation. They treat the true scientists like some freaks in a side show and that's why we're flying Boeings and
Airbuses with no passenger emergency ejection systems, no orbiters, no compound aircraft configurations that land then
disassemble then fly to multiple destinations simultaneously. Instead it's the update of the same old thing flying out of
inefficient little pathetic antique airports that are wide open to any outside interference from an individual to an organized terrorist network.
That's your cook-the-books illusionists who just have taken over and kept the aircraft industry in the days of the 1970's. The same ones who have wormed their way into modern public education. They look really good and are smooth talkers, but are mostly incompetent except for great expertise in maintaining a facade.
So you're no scientist? Well, I'm so sorry. Maybe we can find a nice job for you as a dish washer. Even better, just don't bother, you might mess that up too and make the customers sick. Cheer up, you probably would qualify for
welfare. But you wouldn't settle for that, would you? No rights, no lawyers, having to use
Laundromats, the specter of homelessness. You'd rather go out and look for something else to ruin.
Science is taught in public schools. It's a part of life and as essential as reading and writing. The only reason why someone can't grasp high school science enough to be a scientist is because it's taught wrong. Then the kid goes on to be a business major and then management in an aircraft concern and keeps flight in the dark ages. Because the kid gets lazy first and then greedy and just wants to go where the money is. Sift through the homeless and you'll probably find a lot of scientists
among them whom the managers fired because the scientists became innovative.
I heard someone proclaim recently that we had come a long way since the Wright Brothers. All I can say to him is, "Buddy, who are you sucking-up to?" I've heard of the mental illness of "denial" but this one takes the cake. It's typical of American illusion. Instead of going to space, they make space movies instead. Their logic is that they would rather pocket the money in entertainment profits than invest it in creating jobs in the real world aerospace industry.
Anyone can fly to planet Yabayaba in galaxy ng38020 and disembowel a Whogemawhatsa with a
laser flashlight -- IN YOUR DREAMS -- as science fantasy, and I mean nothing but fantasy. But to land a humongous lifting body from space, buddy, you've got to really obey the laws of physics. It may be possible to do without a heat shield, but you've got to know enough about the clastic nature of the outer
atmosphere, about singular and multiple shape vectors, zero velocity entry, flutter descent, stack descent, telescoping lifters,
Venetian blind lifters (like the Wright Brothers used), and so on.
The moment you become a business, forget it, unless the boss is a businessperson, a scientist and an engineer. Oppenheimer was plain lucky. Any other general and Germany would have gotten not only an atom bomb first, they were working on the hydrogen bomb. But they had their illusions as well. It's a human failing. I guess two wrongs do not make a Reich.
But you who are in charge, you don't want that, do you? You want consumers with just
enough education to read the road
signs, don't you? Don't worry, I don't think it a conspiracy, it's not, breathe easy. It's an
incompetency; a co-op of incompetence, you are incompetent; in a real world you couldn't even get a job as a dish
washer, and sooner than you think a dictator is going to come along and just eliminate you. He'll terminate you in the final sense.
I hope it doesn't come to that, but it's in the cards. That's the pattern of history. A dictator steps in just after a wave of mercantilism gums everything up, only this time it isn't a puny outpost along the ancient Nile. It's the world. The jewel of denial. The king of the
rotten potatoes: a potent tater. End of story. The last sequel of the fantasy.
So you think we've come a long way since the Right Brothers? Bud, we haven't even come a long way since Wan Hoo's rocket chair and that was a few thousand years back. Get real. This whole affair personally has been an embarrassment. The little engine that could -- but didn't.
That was one of my first poems, "The Flight of Wan Hoo". It's lost with a pile of homework in some land fill somewhere, but I do remember the last line and I'll quote it to you here because it's so applicable: "If all systems aren't 'go', you may eat crow."
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