Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet.

The brothers began their experimentation in flight in 1896 at their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. They selected the beach at Kitty Hawk as their proving ground because of the constant wind that added lift to their craft. In 1902 they came to the beach with their glider and made more than 700 successful flights.

Having perfected glided flight, the next step was to move to powered flight. No automobile manufacturer could supply an engine both light enough and powerful enough for their needs. So they designed and built their own. All of their hard work, experimentation and innovation came together that December day as they took to the sky and forever changed the course of history.

A century later we are in space. Who are we? In the blink of an eye of historic time, the human has become turly awesome!

Then when we should feel proud, we see man's inhumanity to man:

Vulture Stalks Starved Child 

 
(The photographer who took this picture

and did not help the child was criticized

and committed suicide. Instructions were

for visitors not to interfer and he did not.) 

WHO ARE WE?

STAY WITH US AS WE EXPLORE THIS QUESTION

Cannibal 1924 

Recent studies (below) show that all humans came from Africa. A small group left eastern Africa to populate the rest of the world.

When do we learn right from wrong? Just what constitutes "wrong"? It is said our closest relative is the Chimpanzee. A male lion will kill and eat the young. Will a Chimpanzee? Will a human? You would think if we are given a no-no in our evolving brain, it would be to not eat one another. Cannibals did in Africa. They boiled or smoked the meat. We witnessed this amazingly as late as the 1920's. If Africans were destroying their own kind for food, what about the rest of the world who by 1924 had automobiles, aircraft and a fully civilized life? Why did those Africans left behind not move ahead? Is it possible the group that left to form the rest of the world and create progressive civilization, were somehow special? Were they different? They turned into several kinds of different races. Chinese, Russian, Eskimo Indian, etc. We almost have to assume they left because they were indeed different. They were not the same and felt compelled to find a new land. To explore. They were curious. The non curious stayed behind.

Very Recent News

Copyright © 2008 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved.

THURSDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- In the largest such examination of human genetic diversity yet conducted, an international team of geneticists has used clues in DNA to track differences and similarities between people around the globe.

Reporting in the Feb. 22 issue of Science, a team led by Richard Myers, of Stanford University, looked at more than 650,000 variants in individual genes, called single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) found in 938 unrelated volunteers in countries around the world.

Among other findings, the new data support the notion that "a small group of individuals migrated out of eastern Africa and their descendants subsequently expanded into most of today's populations,"

Well, this now begs the question: Why did the Africans left behind not progress as did the group that split away becoming the creative the Europeans? Why were the Europeans and Americans and others flying in airplanes while Africans were practicing cannibalism and living as animals? They did have a language and used tools and hunted and gathered together, but did not progress beyond the early man stage. There were sections of Africa where some progress was moving on, however it was dependent upon settlers from other parts of the world.

25 years earlier, this was merely a 
large kite with a motor.

We went from a motorized kite to this aircraft in only 25 years. What made us change from spears and caves to modern progression so fast? We split off from Africa as a small group and made amazing progress. We are still so doing. Who are we?

The limied progress of those that were left behind. Who were those that left?

Those that left pictured below.

 This family, during the ice age, in Europe were our ancestors. DNA has shown they spoke as well as we do.