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I’d say your comment put us at stage 2. New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3)
by melling 9y ago
I’d say your comment put us at stage 2.
New ideas pass through three periods:
1) It can’t be done.
2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing.
3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
- wyattpeak 9y agoSure, but the point is only good as a quip. We can probably make nuclear powered vacuum cleaners, but it's not worth doing.
- nanomonkey 9y agoExcept that they exist already...anytime you plug in a vacuum cleaner that is run off of electricity generated by a nuclear power plant.