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Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 6:40 am
I have always struggled with really original thinking. I can read and absorb what others have written and decide wether I agree, disagree or simply don't know. I am just not a very inventive thinker.
My wife had brilliant idea of a collapsible ironing board for people that live in flats. But a quick google search showed you could buy one for 15 quid at the local Argos, so back to the collapsible drawing board.
Any inventors, novel philosophies or not batshit insane scientific hypotheses that members here have had a Eureka moment with?
N.B flats=apartments for those that do not speak the Queen's English.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 7:08 am
You know how Christmas tree stands are utter shit? When I was a kid (14, I think), I saw Da trying to get all four screws on the stand aligned just so to keep the tree straight, and using bad language the whole time - almost never worked right, he usually ended up tying it to the wall. After the tree came down, I got permission to modify the stand. I ground off that pathetic little tooth at the bottom and soldered in a 6" spike. I took the ring with the screws off the top and made a sort of clamp out of a 4" wide piece of saddle leather with a pair of screws to adjust it.
The next year, we drilled a hole a smidge smaller than the spike vertically up the base of the trunk and hammered the stand onto it. The leather clamp went round the upper legs of the stand and the bottom of the truck. The spike held the tree firmly into the stand and the clamp could be let in or out with the two screws to keep the tree straight. Used it for years.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 7:21 am
I've had some far out scientific ideas, but my scientific publications mostly contain rather conservative material. I invented a fun experiment to disprove that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light involving a giant prism, but then it turned out that it was a simple measurement error.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 7:26 am
I've written some songs I think are good. That's as close as I've come to "brilliance" -- I could see it with a pair of powerful binoculars.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 7:33 am
Yes, but everyone else think they suck.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 8:52 am
In 1976 I made a music "video" for a friend's band. Super 8 ! Cable TV was new. I thought it would be great to have an all music video channel. Then I smoked another joint and TimeWarner beat me to it.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 9:10 am
I removed the concrete base for a grain bin without hiring a heavy equipment contractor to do it.
Dug out underneath one section of the edge and then waited for winter. After the ground froze, I was able to arrange blocking in the hole and then put 2 hydraulic bottle jacks on the blocking and was able to raise the slab up quite a ways. (The slab didn't freeze to the ground since there was sand under it)
After I lifted it on one side, I drove our largest tractor on it, and it fractured. I kept raising the edge in places and driving the tractor on it to crack it in more places until the pieces were small enough to move with the equipment I have.
Just took time and some diesel fuel, saved money doing it myself.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 9:14 am
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I've had a fantastic idea to make me rich... But it was flawed. I had an idea about inventing a machine I would call a helicopter but then realised that gravity is too strong for it to fly!
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 2, 2017 at 9:15 am
As a writer, it is particularly difficult to create a brilliant idea.
Soon after I conceptualize my idea, I discover that other writers have already written it.
Of course, it is also true that there are no new ideas in the realm of writing. Rather, how the writer approaches the idea and creates the world around that idea is what tends to be different for each book that incorporates the same idea.
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