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From: Brimstone on 23 Apr 2010 07:04 "Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:83dbgoFop4U8(a)mid.individual.net... > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like > they were saying: > >>> I'm not defending flying per se , but as a method of transport its not >>> much more polluting per person than a car or bus (so long as the plane >>> is full of course). What it does do however is encourage people to >>> travel huge distances that without aircraft they wouldn't or even >>> couldn't do. > >> So Australia and New Zealand weren't colonised until the aircraft was >> invented? That's not the history I was taught at school. > > Didn't you know that Christopher Columbus was shagging Amelia Earhart? Yeah, but I put that down to the ancient Greeks inventing time travel.
From: Brimstone on 23 Apr 2010 07:07 "ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:0av2t5l01f7045f37mfs4ipp1vjin57k21(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:33:04 +0100, "Brimstone" > <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>So Australia and New Zealand weren't colonised until the aircraft was >>invented? That's not the history I was taught at school. > > if people went there, it was *slowly*. The early colonisers used wind > power. Now, some people arrange consecutive meetings in Tokyo and New > York. > > There's no problem going long distances if you do it *slowly* Speed isn't the problem, the amount of crud spewed out it. Britain built its empire with wind power.
From: Adrian on 23 Apr 2010 07:36 "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > Britain built its empire with wind power. That poor James Watt. Wasted his time completely, and added nothing to the world...
From: Brimstone on 23 Apr 2010 07:56 "Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:83df2lFop4U10(a)mid.individual.net... > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like > they were saying: > >> Britain built its empire with wind power. > > That poor James Watt. Wasted his time completely, and added nothing to > the world... Indeed, the Greeks, the Romans, Newcomen, Cugnot, Trevithick and Brunel all did much more. Watt merely tinkered with someone else's design while Boulton did the marketing and selling.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 23 Apr 2010 08:04
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:07:50 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> There's no problem going long distances if you do it *slowly* > >Speed isn't the problem, the amount of crud spewed out it. Britain built its >empire with wind power. crud increases as a function of speed. The wind power that powered Nelson was s l o w. One day we may have fast and clean, but not yet. -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine. |