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Originally Posted by cjmarsh81
a leading scientist said you cannot travel at any significant speed because you would be rushing past the air so fast you would not be able to breathe.
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Professor Dionysius Lardner (what a name!) warned that people wouldn't survive a 100mph trip through Brunel's new railway tunnel to Bath.
Also, coal fired steamers could never carry enough coal to cross the Atlantic.
And "men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to communicate electronically across or under the stormy North Atlantic Ocean".
In the end he eloped with an officer's wife and scarpered to the USA.