Monday, December 17, 2012

Orville & Wilbur Wright - The Men Who Destroyed Our World

On this date, (December 17th) in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight. One hundred and nine years later, airplanes criss-cross our globe by the tens of thousands. Distances that used to take months to travel are now done in hours.

So your question is, how did they destroy our world? Let me elaborate. It's a fairly accepted fact that the Zombie apocalypse will be caused by some sort of virus. If this virus was set loose in a airplane free society, it might spread slow enough that an area could be quarantined and/or a cure found. However, with the number of people that travel internationally and domestically every day, the chance of containing said virus is almost nill. Before we could even grasp what was happening, we would have a zombie epidemic on our hands.

So there you have it. These two men are responsible for creating the vehicle of our destruction.



-Red

PS~ I don't really believe there is going to be a zombie apocalypse. I just thought it would be a fun way to share some history today.




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3 comments:

  1. It would be better to say that the Wright brothers were the first to have a fixed wing, motorized aircraft photographed in flight. Out of 4 flights,the longest was 59 seconds. Two years before, Gustave Whitehead flew his fixed wing aircraft out over Long Island Sound turned it around and flew it back at an altitude of 200 feet and a total distance of 7 miles.
    There was also a preacher, Burrell Cannon, in Texas that built a fixed wing plane based on Scripture. He called it the Ezekiel Airship. It flew several years before the Wrights also. And of course, there was that inventor in Justin Texas that flew his fixed wing plane from the roof of a two floor building. The duration of that flight was...two floors. Still, it was almost longer than the first 3 flights that the Wrights did. Don't cha just love History?
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  2. I will gladly add them to the list of men responsible for the demise of humankind. Being first or not, doesn't matter. They helped usher in the age of flight. Because of these men planes circle the globe daily. So now the zombie virus will be transmitted with no hope of stoping its spread.

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  3. AARGGHH GASP!.... Sniffing the air, he moved off in search of human flesh...

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