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A historic moment in history at 10:35 EST today. 100 years ago, two bicycle shop owners from Dayton, Ohio launched an ungainly machine of wood, sateen fabric, cables and a hand-built 8 horsepower engine into the sky at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Although many had tried before them, Orville and Wilbur Wright managed to overcome weather, numerous design flaws, and erroneous data from other pioneers to create the first heavier than air powered flight in the world.
They flew less of a distance than the length of most of today's commercial airliners (121 feet to be exact), but their invention would revolutionize the world in ways they could not possibly have imagined. It would spell the end of ocean liners and seriously weaken passenger train service. It created new vectors for disease transmission and would spawn global smuggling operations. It became a new tool for world armies and, most recently and brutally, it became a high speed bomb for terrorists. Click here for more information on the celebrations going on today.
A head cold is starting to take the lead on me, so I will be brief today. I got my Christmas bonus today (95% of a week's pay which, after taxes, comes out to two unbroken clamshells and six inches of twine). I also got promoted. Not much of a promotion, but up is always better than down or, even worse, out.
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