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In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop (bigthink.com)
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[-] piotrm@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Key word there is "evolve" which may be reasonable with respect to natural evolution of flight but then even human assisted artificial selection operates much more efficiently than that.

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