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WIBNI-Man
Able to leap tall obstacles of science and reality in a single bound | |
To help you through those times when reality just isn't cooperating with your brilliant idea. WIBNI-Man, for instance, will connect your equator-generator-car cable to the moon for you....
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http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/SarcasMo Or don't. [globaltourniquet, May 25 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Look ! Up in the Pie in the Sky! |
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Senator, I've read some of Vernon's posts--Vernon was a good friend--and Senator, globaltourniquet is no Vernon. (I mean that in a good way.) |
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Mephista: I'm sure they all did. The difference, however, is that an invention is the "follow-through", or attempt at solving a specifc portion of a WIBNI idea. As jutta explains, the WIBNI: |
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"Describes something desirable, but unobtainable, without giving any new clues as to how it could be done. Ideas that already occur in existing science fiction usually belong here - time travel, stopping time, flying cars, infinite resources." |
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Argh: was going to post this (or something like it) myself after the latest round of Wibnis. You missed out anti-gravity (unless that's the leaping bit), genetic engineering and free energy, all key elements in the uber-Wibni. |
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