I really enjoyed thehomage paid by Google today for the birthday of Alberto Santos-Dumont. This isperhaps Brazil's most relevant personality, which stand to be the rightfulinventor of autonomous aircraft heavier than air.Leaving that polemicaside, I would like to salute Google initiative.Cheers! The idea of Santos=Dumontto share knowledge, without any compromise with patent laws, focusing only thesole purpose of conquering the flight, certainly caused the anticipation of discoveringof the aircraft to the beginning of the 20th century. But was also the greatcause of the misinterpretation of Americans conferring to the Wright brothers' thestatus of inventors of the airplane.leia esta materia em PortuguesSantos=Dumontanticipated the 'wiki' philosophy for over 100 years, in which all the informationabout an invention, in a specific development process, are placed at thedisposal of everybody, in order to multiply the chances of advancement -opening opportunities to a greater number of people involved in the issue, aimingthe final creation of such invention (the term 'wiki' to designate this phenomenonappears today in the Wikipedia site and also in the book "Wikinomics"by Anthony D. Williams and Don Tapscott ) - know more about Santos=Dumont father of wiki philosophyWhat is known today as"philosophy of post-scarcity" was also created by Santos=Dumont - buttoday the term 'post-scarcity' is still taken more like science fiction, than ascience.The process ofinvention/creation through the method of 'post-scarcity' implies in using fullmental devotion, seeking to resolve the issues, concerning the stages ofcreation, taking into consideration that "we can find in nature any andall recourse in order to resolve any and all issue".The 'post-scarcity' isthe method in which the profound observation of nature, combined with the mostperfect use of the creative mind, allows to test all possibilities to theexhaustion, in order to obtain the invention of something in its best form.- scarcity ends at the time when realize the unlimited nature of resources that we consider, in ignorance, as scarce. -As the name says, themethod of 'post-scarcity' also implies in measuring well the use theseresources to avoid waste and misuse.See the followingarticle in which Santos=Dumont presents the use of "aeroplanes " aspart of the solution for the development of a dirigible designed to carrypassengers, such as an air bus, and draw your own conclusions.Dirigible Santos=Dumont n.10 - "The Bus" with its "aeroplanes"Evening JournalArtist, Coffin, Interviews Inventor and Explains His Ideas - July 30, 1902By G. A Coffin.Nerve, intellectualand physical.That is the impressionyou receive in talking with Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian aeronaut. He is afatalist. Generally speaking, navigators of the air will avail themselves ofevery safeguard in their dangerous undertakings, but M. Santos trusts entirelyto his airship, discarding the parachute and merely says, with expensive shrug,when the possibility of an accident during his flight is broached:Well then, it is allover.In discussing aerialnavigation, M. Santos is rather cuscreative, He admits that the only way tocarry passengers is an airship is by enormously increasing the size of theballoon and that of course makes it more unwieldy in unfavorable weather.The limit of buoyancyor lifting power has been practically reached by using hydrogen gas forinflations.Theoretically it mightbe possible to obtain a gas that would give an increased lifting power.