Roll on the 20th June

[Bobbotov]

Newton himself said flight was not possible.

When did Newton say flight was impossible? Please cite a link. I am curious.

[ThothTheSecond]

When did Newton say flight was impossible? Please cite a link. I am curious.

Actually I think it was Lord Kelvin, from what I can find anyways.  Here are some notable quotes:

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." (Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876)

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." (Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" (David Sarnoff's associates, in response to his urgings for investment in radio in the 1920's)

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." (New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" (Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927)

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." (Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)

"The [flying] machine will eventually be fast; they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers." --Octave Chanute, aviation pioneer, 1904.

"The ordinary 'horseless carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never come into as common use as the bicycle." --The Literary Digest, 1889.

"[It] is, of course, altogether valueless.... Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, party of whites to visit this profitless locality." --Lt. Joseph D. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1861, on the Grand Canyon.

"Landing and moving around on the moon offer so many serious problems for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them." --Science Digest, August, 1948.

"X rays are a hoax." "Aircraft flight is impossible." "Radio has no future." --Physicist and mathematician Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, Chairman, IBM, 1943.

"The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." --Adm. William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Energy Project, 1945.

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, 1949.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co., in rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

All quotes taken from: http://keelynet.com/primer.htm

[jratcliff]

Is it just me or is Archer acting like he making this shit up as he goes along?  He started by claiming he had done this before, and knew exactly how to do it.  Then his several attempts at building a wheel failed and he has gone off onto various tangents.  He makes videos that do *not* show a running wheel and acts all excited as if he accomplished something.

Very strange..

[Bobbotov]

Actually I think it was Lord Kelvin, from what I can find anyways.  Here are some notable quotes:

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)

Well, I knew about Kelvin but never heard of Newton saying flight was impossible. Plus that was 270 years after Newton died.

And while we are on the subject of Newton can someone point out where Newton came up with the laws of thermodynamics? He seems to be so maligned and yet I cannot find where he actually wrote the "laws."

[Alexioco]

You lot are wasteing your time on this topic, just look at that, 119 pages and NO perpetual wheel of any kind! We are in July now, not june! This forum is not about how many pages you can make, its about finding this wheel out and you wont find it here doing this i'm sorry to say...