Taxonomy of Flight

Walking around this fantastic collection of aircraft, I was immersed in thoughts of the Technium, the idea that technology is the seventh kingdom of life. The technodiversity surrounding me in the main hangar display was overwhelming. The technological adaptations for vertical flight, human-powered flight, jet propulsion, and numerous others are designed by human minds, which makes them memetic innovations rather than genetic, but they evolve and adapt nonetheless.

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