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Re: 1905 - A. I. Root "disgusted with the press"... "especially the scientific press"
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Geoff Manning <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:52 +1100
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On 13/01/2014 4:47 AM, J. Waggle wrote:

> Open Question to the Scientific Community.
>
> Perhaps A. I. Root deserves an answer!
>
> 'Does a failure to take amateur inventors/scientists seriously,
> put the scientific community, as Root says "so much behind
> the times"? -and would you consider failures of scientific
> community to take amateur inventor/scientists seriously a
> hindrance to science as Root alludes?

If you happened to be there that day, what would your reaction have 
been?  They flew (sort of) a few yards.  No one foresaw modern 
airliners.  At the time kites and balloons were more reliable.  As that 
great intellect said " it is hard to make predictions, especially about 
the future.

> Please address replies to:  'Dear Mr. Root' I will forward it.

Ah; that does make me sit up and take notice!

Geoff Manning

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