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Re: OT Sail downwind faster than the wind!

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From: John Fields
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:34
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On 10 Aug 2010 15:34:54 GMT, John Doe <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> wrote:

>Rick Cavallaro <rick.spork gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Ken S. Tucker" <dynam... vianet.on.ca> wrote:
>
>>> Learn about POWER, you could do much better.
>> 
>> Much better that WHAT?  Conceiving of, designing, building, and
>> piloting a vehicle that went directly downwind, powered only by the
>> wind 
>
>There is an explicit example of Rick Cavallaro pretending to be
>the inventor, right here in this thread. 

---
I disagree, in that it's entirely possible for someone to have
conceived of something without knowing that it had been invented
earlier.

Matter of fact, that's just what patent searches are for; to see
whether what you conceived of was conceived of earlier by someone
else.

-- 
JF
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