Quote Originally Posted by Dubbag View Post
I recall reading about the guy who first suggested using the new steel been produced in abundance in the 17th/18th century asking if it would be possible to make boats and ships out of steel. He was laughed out of the room for ages...until someone understood the law of flotation....the law was there all the time we just hadn't evolved to figure it out...
We are still a very young species......
Absolutely. Someone who came from Napoleonic times would still have recognised most things at the end of the nine****th century, but the world changed immensely in the next hundred years, and has changed again in the last twenty years.