Yeah, I originally thought of the concept for "Dances With Wolves" ... but my version was a musical.
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Yeah, I originally thought of the concept for "Dances With Wolves" ... but my version was a musical.
Hmph - dry humour + americans = mud.
I don't really think that this show stole my idea. There's a business theory that when you have an idea don't talk about it to anyone until you either do it, or have copyrighted it. Chinese whispers, inference and otherwise mean that you're idea might be taken up by someone else who actually believes they had the original idea.
The guy who mentioned "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" or "Big" and "Vice Versa", "Turner & Hooch" and "K9" thats not conincidence it's by whispers through the studios.
Here's a good way to win a bet - ask the local know it all who invented the light bulb. Chances are he's wrong.
seanchai
seanchai, you're doubtlessly thinking of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan of England, the first to construct a functioning electric light bulb in 1879. Most people would credit Thomas Alva Edison, who was just as instrumental but whose contribution wasn't the light bulb itself, it was solving the problem Swan had with maintaining a vacuum in the bulb (the vacuum is necessary because otherwise oxygen in the bulb would cause the filament to burn). Swan's bulb would only light briefly; Edison in October of 1879 used a carbon filament which burned for 40 hours. He eventually found a carbonized cotton filament which lasted for 1500 hours and marketed the bulb. So both men really deserve credit, as Swan invented the light bulb but Edison made it practical.
It wasn't until 1910 that William David Coolidge of the General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, invented the tungsten filament, and the true long-life bulb was invented.
Ultimate credit though goes to another Briton: Sir Humphrey Davy, who in 1811 discovered that an electrical arc passed between two poles produced light. The first public (though experimental) electric lighting was in Paris in 1841, when arc lights were installed as public lighting along the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Nice - so take that info to your local propellorhead and play him for a few bucks. Ecstatic and I will take 15% split.
seanchai
Sounds good to me!
Seanchai,
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