# Castles, Early Flight, and the Power of Historic Cathedrals

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069650739803070898
- Source account: [@wakenminds](https://x.com/wakenminds)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:16
- Published: 2026-06-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals) People who were fighting, when they were fighting in these wars, they were fighting for these buildings.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=4) Like, these buildings had been around for such a long period of time, and different people would inhabit them or take them, and then the people around them would fight them for them.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=12) And it just blew my mind because I found these pictures of castles, where they just have moats and all kinds of things around them, and now they don't have any of that.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=21) And I started thinking through each fight or war or whatever it was of these different people, then all of a sudden things kind of got broken down.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=28) But it really started to make me question everything.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=30) And then I found one book, which kind of blew my mind.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=32) The Boy's Book of Airships. And they were explaining flight in 1783.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=38) But flight was not displayed until about 1901 with the World Fair.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=43) So, it's made me start to realize that a lot of stuff goes back a lot farther.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=48) There's nothing new under the sun. And the more I would explore this topic and just kind of, you know, just pick one, like flight or materials, whatever, nothing added up.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=57) And I realized that because these buildings, when you walk into them, I went into a couple of cathedrals in New York City.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=63) When you walk into them, they touch your soul.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=66) It's very hard to explain, but you get goosebumps and you can feel this building.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7UIrK7QZaHnF/en/castles-early-flight-and-the-power-of-historic-cathedrals?t=70) And I found footage from that building from 1899.