On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:26:26 -0500, Dan wrote:

Kyle Boatright wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
ps.com...
http://www.time.com/time/politics/ar...665835,00.html

V-22 Osprey: A Flying Shame
By Mark Thompson


In hindsight, it would have been wise to give up the idea of military
aviation after Thomas Selfridge was killed.

;-)

Excellent idea. No air forces, no aerial war, no civil transport and
mankind will always remember Wright Fliers as the epitome of man's folly
in the air. Now, if the Montgolfiers hadn't invented lighter than air
flight, think of all the lives that could have been saved there also.

Even more lives would have been saved if railroads hadn't been
invented. Man was never intended to fly nor travel faster than a horse.

We/ve raised and trained horses for the last 20 years. Hundreds of
persons are killed world wide each year in equestrian accidents.

The hard fact is that life has hazards that cannot be reduced to zero.
The advocates of the "nanny state" do not wish to acknowledge this,
but there it is.

Of course maybe the greatest human-invented killer of all time may be
steam power. Be it a steam boat blowing up or a locomotive blowing up
or steam boiler in an industrial facility blowing up it's real killer.
We should exhume the body of Mr. Watt, try him for murder, and then
execute him for his crimes against humanity.