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u/LionShuttle 54m ago
Didn't we have cars and bicycles a 100 years ago?
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u/ItzLoganM 32m ago
If we are talking about internal combustion engines, then it was almost exactly 100 after the invention of the engine when the B2 spirit was manufactured. I don't know how to feel about that honestly.
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u/anotherfrud 39m ago
Yes. In the US a little under 20% of adults had one compared to about 85% today. They definitely existed but weren't quite as ubiquitous as they are today.
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u/JimbooJoness 32m ago
What percentage of people own stealth bombers now?
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u/OldJames47 23m ago
As a US tax payer, I co-own 20. But like a timeshare, the rules on when I get to use one are pretty restrictive.
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u/BlackmoorGoldfsh 30m ago
An airplane is an invention, not evolution.
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u/Crazy-Crocodile 1m ago
Well yes, but no. It's an evolution in a sense that it follows from earlier inventions. I can't just drop a team of highly skilled engineers on a desert island and say: make me a B2 stealth bomber. You need everything that came previously both practical and theoretical to do that. So it is an invention.
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u/Slothrop-was-here 28m ago
Funny how the riderāManifest Destiny firmly on his mindāheads west, while the Bā2 flies toward the Middle East: American imperialism over the centuries, from settlements to securing the Petro Dollar and world hegemony, genocide always in there somewhere...
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u/OhItsMrCow 11m ago
oh so people don't ride on horses anymore, they just fly in their B-2 to the store?
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