Comments by "MM2" (@MM22966) on "“Manned Aircraft are Dead” – A Lesson from History; the Jeune Ecole" video.

  1. I had to look up the Fashoda Incident, which I did not know of. It is interesting how it intertwined with so many other matters that were much more well-known at the time. (Briefly, for others: the French and British tried to claim the Upper Nile at the same time for purposes of securing communication across their other African colonial possessions. The French were forced to back down - in no small part because, as Nash pointed out, they simply did not have a navy capable of playing games with the RN. It happened in 1898)
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  2. Those two events were more than 140 years apart. Seems like a poor analogy.
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  3. But...he does launch rockets. He launches more rockets than everybody else on the planet. We're going back to the Moon and eventually to Mars because of him. He's made internet available for cheap to the most remote places on the planet. He still makes boneheaded statements sometimes, but he's a public figure. I can't think of one that doesn't do that eventually.
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  4. One crashed and they cancelled the program. (in another timeline)
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  5. 1:40 Love the pivot-analogy, lol
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  6. Start a spelling bee?
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