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Fuckin assholes stole my idea and had it patented 30 years before I was born!
“What do you mean a double gyroscopic core self-rectifying monorail was built in 1962?! Thats impossible…”
wait…it’s 2024 and 1995 was 29 years ago…
I meant this more as a thing that happened to me, rather than ain direct reference to the post.
I had a super cool idea the other day, but of course it’s been patented and not explored furtherp
If it’s an old patent, chances are it’s expired and free to use now.
Was your idea time travel?
I once was in the mirror with some dental floss trying to get at a stuck piece of romaine lettuce. When I finally dislodged it, instead of coming out of my mouth with the floss, it decided to sit on the front of my tooth.
As I’m ineffectively swiping at it with the floss I get an idea: what if I had a bunch of pieces of floss, instead of just one… And if I made them stiffer, it’d be easier to just get in there and swipe things off the sides of my teeth… Like a little mouth broom… Or a toothbrush! …I’m an idiot.
Context for us uneducated?
Step 1. Have an idea
Step 2. Google idea
Step 3. Someone thought of it before you were born
Even worse if you think your idea is just the best darn thing to come along since sliced bread. And then Dr. 1995 comes along and lays out the whole thing in a footnote in a paper on a different topic.
Which most likely is written in much more detail than you ever could do.
Step 3 doesn’t need to be before you were born, just a seemingly long time ago. 1995 definitely wouldn’t be before the person in the picture was born.
Nearly all of the grad students today were born after 95
I don’t think any context is needed, it’s just about when you have an idea that you think is great and novel but it turns out it has already been done 30 years prior.
Appreciate it. Thought it was a specific reference and i don’t know who the person in the shot is
you have a genius giga brain blast moment, you feel like the most intelligent person on the world, and you immediately google it.
Only to find that it’s been a thing for the last 50 years and nobody seems to care about it…
Okay thanks, thought i missed something that was being referenced
yeah no you’re not missing out on anything except despair lol
Oh no. No no no. That ive got in spades. Feel free to steal as much of it as you want from me, it won’t be missed if you do
fair enough, i’ve got plenty myself though, maybe you can sell it someone else.
I guess you could just take the shotgun approach and come up with so many completely crazy hypotheses that one of them is bound to be correct eventually.
This comes at the risk of being REALLY disappointed… 😝
I think p-hacking was invented sometime around the 90s as well, congratulations you matched the meme!
I had the idea for Hyperloop when I was 12. Elon too, but he has the track record where he could convince people he could actually build it.
Time out it’s not a very good idea though.
You and elon will just have to legally fight out the question of who invented the idea of building specific infrastructurally distinct transit ways specific to a certain type of vehicle optimised for transporting goods and people along those
railroad tracksI mean hyperloops.It was the vacuum tube part, but yeah I’m definitely fighting
skummusk in court
I’m the one who scooped your idea and traveled back in time to publish it. Green lantern rings have time-travel abilities…and universal translation too, very handy
“I know that, that doesn’t matter, I know you Mr. Rainey, that’s what matters. You stole my story.”
Do a confirmation study?
Actually no.
Realistically, I was never going to capitalize on the idea anyway. but on top of that if someone else has already had the idea and it’s at least mildly successful then boom: automatic validation that it was a good idea.deleted by creator
I call it, “Billy and the Cloneasaurus.”
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