Ah, that finally explains the mystery of the Quimbaya Jets!

See, Malayo-Polynesians expanded across the Pacific, made contact with Amerindians in Colombia, and apparently traded their fighter jet technology for kūmara (sweet potato, a New World crop that the Polynesians had before the Columbian exchange too). Then those Amerindians time-traveled 1000 years into their past to give the jet plans to their ancestors who, through a hilarious error in metric-ancient unit conversion, made tiny gold models of them instead.

[Big, fat

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for about half of that.]

Anyone can fly, once.

She’s going to regret turning down that six-month payout lol

Flying kung fu? Is she saying Kung Fu Hustle is historically accurate?

This is so wack it makes me wonder if there is more going on here

Yeah well, drug abuse is not welcome in academia.

Anything can fly if you strap a big enough rocket to it.

Though I’m guessing that’s not what she meant.

The earliest flight legend in Islamic history is Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi, and even with historical records whether it has been successful is still a topic of debate among historians.

Claiming an earlier flight without any historical record to show as proof is a really dumb move.