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By , About.com GuideApril 29, 2013

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Bad PredictionsYou might find this in some way encouraging, the facts are that  many inventions that are now famous and have achieved a tremendous amount of success, were once ridiculed and laughed at. That's right. The telephone, television, radio, movies, computers, lightbulbs, and the airplane were all predicted to fail. So maybe, if they are laughing at what you are inventing today, tomorrow will prove them all wrong. Photo credit: Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images

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April 6, 2012 at 10:05 am
(1) aaron says:

My philosophy & experience regarding inventions is this:
If everyone likes your idea when you first introduce it, your idea is probably no good.But, if they don’t think it will work or they don’t like it, then you probably have something…This happened,in particular, with my mach 60+centriponic aerospace propulsion concept.The Air Force Research Lab at Wright Patterson said that my idea would produce no thrust. And years before that a Youngstown State University professor said that he was not impressed. But I built an electric centriponic propulsion working model and it propelled a small boat across a swimming pool.Battelle Institute’s answer to that was” I don’t care if appears to be working, it’s not working”,even though they never saw it…But, believe it or not Centriponic propulsion can pass the NASA pendulum test,a test created by NASA to determine whether or not a new propulsion idea is spaceworthy.— Centriponic propulsion came within one vote of being funded by NASA …

May 2, 2013 at 10:33 am
(2) loko says:

you know nothing

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