Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #08272
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Elmo andrewe@ilid.com.au
Date: Tuesday, 14 December 1999 3:21
Subject: Re: BEAMjet
>If your interested.....
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>http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/aerobot/homepage.html
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>Elmo
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>Dennison Bertram wrote:
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>> Oh, I didn't mean my response to sound so harsh. I wasn't criticising you
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>> anyway, infact I'm alot like you. Shoot, if I come up with a good idea,
I'm
>> the first to say so. :-) Anyway, don't worry about it.
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>> dennison
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com [mailto:owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com]On
>> Behalf Of Justin
>> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 12:36 PM
>> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>> Subject: Re: BEAMjet
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>> [Quoting from different posts]
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>> >It's a curious thing to note however, that the BEAMERs on this list
>> >have already come up with a fair amount of stuff. The whole blimp idea
>> isn't
>> >exactly new.
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>> I didn't mean vague concepts of means and motion, unformed ideas (eg
>> blimps, jets) etc, but the more detailed description of mounting an SE
>> on an arm, making that arm into a mobile, putting a propellor on the SE
>> such that it imitates flight when triggered, and dressing the whole
>> thing up as a Fokker . That's specific enough to be a
>> reasonably distinctive description. If he was talking about dressing it
>> up as a bird that flaps its wings when triggered, despite being almost
>> the same idea, it wouldn't be construed as the source of my design. But
>> yes - that someone thought of something so similar indicates it may be a
>> more obvious concept than I took it for. Either that or BEAM attracts
>> people who think very much like me. Me for example... :-)
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>> >Ideas are good. Ideas start the process. But, a finished, beautiful
>> >prototype is the real meat and potatoes.
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>> I agree. Ideas are almost worthless when you always have at least ten
>> great ideas in the space of time it takes to bring just one of them into
>> the world. For this reason, there is little incentive to act on someone
>> else's ideas while your own accumulate dust. Thus continuously acting
>> only on other peoples ideas is often symptomatic of either lack of
>> creativity or low self esteem (or that you're employed :). So when I
>> post to say "yeah - I also thought of that", I'm not saying "Heap glory
>> upon my manly form for my ideas are as gifts from god", I'm checking
>> possible misrepresentation of how I usually build things. It's not a big
>> thing, but it's nicer to have it correct rather than mistaken :-)
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