This seems to be the
New York Times piece which President Bush alluded to in his remarks today at Kitty Hawk. They were just as supercilious and wrongheaded then as now.
I have inserted some additional paragraph breaks--the original is three long paragraphs.
To: Verginius Rufus
It's been a century, and the NYT is as full of elitist dreck now as it was then. Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
To: Verginius Rufus
All that guvmint money given to Langley for no result...
and two bumpkins running a bicycle shop in Dayton, OH figure out the problem
all on their own.
It was a good thing that Wilbur didn't go to engineering school!
3 posted on
12/17/2003 1:56:59 PM PST by
VOA
To: Timesink
Ping.
4 posted on
12/17/2003 1:58:15 PM PST by
mewzilla
To: Verginius Rufus
What?! The New York Times was WRONG!? Say it isn't so.
5 posted on
12/17/2003 1:58:40 PM PST by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again...")
To: Verginius Rufus
Didn't this appear today with Jayson Blair's byline?
7 posted on
12/17/2003 2:09:53 PM PST by
Buck W.
To: Verginius Rufus
They also had this to say about Robert H. Goddard, Jan. 13, 1920, in letting everyone know he was a crackpot and rocket travel in space was impossible:
That Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react --- to say that would be absurd. Of course, he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
It took until 1969 for them to issue a retraction.
10 posted on
12/17/2003 2:43:45 PM PST by
TomB
To: Verginius Rufus
Know-it-all elitist then.
Know-it-all elitist now.
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