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Originally Posted by tk13
What does that have to do with anything? You of all people being this close-minded is fairly surprising.
I didn't say we'd all be out there flying on Solar Airlines in 10 years. But all technological advances start somewhere. There aren't any other solar powered jumbo jets or fighter planes out there, unless I've missed something. Computers used to take up a room. Cell phones used to be giant bricks you held to your head. Nobody stopped improving those things because we already had landline phones, or refused to make laptops because we had desktop computers. I don't understand why anyone would be so irritable about this.
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Why does everyone keep saying I'm irritable or pissed or bitter about this? I think it's hilarious, not a source of angst like all of you seem to be taking it.
The Wright brothers, working by themselves, fashioned a whole new technology for a smattering of dollars, and could barely get themselves noticed for a few years. A horde of scientists spending millions created an underpowered fragile slow-as-shit monstrosity and their accomplishment is plastered all over the news.
Look, solar cells have been around for at least half a century, and improvements in them have been incremental at best. We now have a multimillion dollar solar-powered glider that can generate as much power as a cigarette lighter.
I don't care
who you are, that's funny.