MikeMc:

You'd think that as the holder of a Masters degree in Engineering <<cough>> you'd be familiar with the concept of PROGRESSION.

Was Calculus your first math class?

Was Mt Everest the first hill that Sir Edmund Hillery climbed? I think not. And if you could bend his ear for two minutes and tell him that you wanted to learn to climb by peaking K2, I'll bet that the word "stupid" would certainly be used in that conversation.

Is it POSSIBLE? I guess.

Is it STUIPD? Yes.

What I don't understand is this: You claim that you are visionary, and we're all narrow minded "sheep". In a hundred years why would we be learning to fly with turbines? Why not Mag-Lev? Or Anti-Matter? or Anti-Gravity?