I wish this were a joke...

[reefermadness]

Ya.....radical thinkers like the Ron Popeil and his spray on hair......or the inventor of the snuggie.

J/K.....I actually like my snuggie.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Check this out for another idea that may well have been formulated in the mind of a radical thinker, and it is real...

http://www.marinabaysands.com/

Very cool. That's creativity... a little different. I don't see any mention of them tipping the resort on a massive teeter-totter to slide occupants around rather than use elevators. I think that'd be comparing apples to apples =)

[StirCrazy]

is kind of silly, but the idea of moving the tank around hmm.. that would be much easier......

as for sleeping fish if the rocks move as one thats no problem as they are inside the moving mass and it would be the same to them as an alternating current. actualy there are several natural habatats that would act the same way.

but way to expensive to be practical.

Steve

[Bloodasp]

He was just brainstorming I think. Like he said there he is open to critics and as to why it would or wouldn't work.
Just like someone said here the best creations come from the most ubsurd ideas. One I could think of is the horseless carriage. Everyone thought ford was crazy to think that a carriage can run without a horse, yet we are all ride one everyday.

[reefermadness]

Who thought Ford was crazy? If I was riding a horse and someone showed me a combustible engine, I would call that a good idea......it was a welcome and useful invention.

Now show me some plotter or robotics to move rocks in water and I have to ask why? What is the usefulness or benefit....if an invention is not useful or improves something what is the point.

[BMahura]

This is just ridiculous

[Bloodasp]

You might not since you are already exeriencing the benefits of it but those who lived during his time did. Which is what I was driving at and why those here who disagreed with those who called the poster of that thread an idiot. And I do agree at one thing that was pointed out here that it might not work for what he intended it to but someone else might, or it might formulate an idea which would actually make sense from to use.
And besides you missed the whole point. The poster had an idea based on what he thought was creative. He asked others if it was a viable thought and based on the thread he never made it since the thread died the second day without any updates. But at least he was thinking outside the box, and I would hope he was not stubborn about doing it the way he originally thought.

[spawn]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

pretty sure that's an insult to idiots

+1 but now there is proof that even crack heads love salt water tanks.