The Evolution of the Airliner"This is how the airliner originated. One day there was a terrific thunderstorm. Lightning played upon are-bearing rocks & fused the various ores into lumps of molten iron, copper & bauxite. Again the lightning struck before the metals had cooled, so that the mettals formed themselves into patterns inherent in their atomic particals. This resulted in simple components being formed - nuts, bolts, aluminium plates, etc. Again the lightning struck & formed more complex components - cylinder heads, pistons, rings, wires (ready insulated), turbines, blades, propeller parts, wheels, & melted some rubber trees into tyres & left all these in a heap. "Again the lightning struck & flung the heap high into the air. Some of the nuts were near enough to the bolts to respond to an to an inherent attraction process & screw themsleves together, capture another component in the process, & so were selected for the developing plane. Other pieces fell uselessly as unwanted debris & so were not selected. After repeated lightning the major units were formed: engines, panel instruments, struts, fuselage, tanks, seats & lavatory pans. "Coincidentally an earthwuake ruptured the strata & reeased oil from an anticline. The oil spouted & poured itself into the tanks, refining & separating into frades on the way. "Afinal burst of lighning flung everything up into the air. There were far more parts than those required by any one aeroplane but those which were lucky enough to fall into a viable position made up a complete aeroplane which throbbed into life & made a safe landing." Excerpted from "Who was Adam?", Victor Pearce.
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