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The balloon travelled for “forty-five minutes and fifteen miles to the village of Genoesse, where it was attacked by frightened peasants on landing.”
The balloon travelled for “forty-five minutes and fifteen miles to the village of Genoesse, where it was attacked by frightened peasants on landing.”
Supposedly they started carrying Champagne with them after this so that the locals where they landed would know that they were fellow Frenchmen.
This feels a little bit like where ML is at the moment. A lot of very excited people, not too much evidence for concrete value right now, and airplanes over the horizon. (less than 100 years though, I would have guessed. Wrights flew 1903, this was 1783).
If ML mania is like Balloonomania, then what are the airplanes over the horizon?