Having a brain fart right now trying to think of some famous examples of person A making some sort of discovery and not seeing the importance or usefulness and then person B coming in and finding a groundbreaking application for person A's work.

this has nothing to do with the obama "you didn't build that" quote btw.

8/29/2012 7:21:03 PM

LSD?

8/29/2012 7:28:45 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut-RWCAY7fU

8/29/2012 7:35:03 PM

Fermat came up with RSA, shit wasn't used for a while

8/29/2012 8:28:52 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPjxtxTqnnI

8/29/2012 8:38:44 PM

lol i swear i thought this was about obama's socialist rant

8/29/2012 8:39:18 PM

Plasma displays weren't invented to be used as tv's.

8/29/2012 8:44:55 PM

Microsoft tablet pc-->. Apple ipad

8/29/2012 9:28:50 PM

Indians didn't do shit with America until white people came and showed them what's up

8/29/2012 9:32:53 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS

8/29/2012 9:34:17 PM

Steve jobs stealing the GUI from Xerox Park
Bill Gates stealing his operating system from some some rinky-dink company

8/29/2012 9:38:26 PM

Fleming wasn't the first to discover penicillin's antibiotic properties. he was just the first to actually get somewhere with it.

8/29/2012 9:38:52 PM

Or how about Preston Tucker and the ideas his car pioneered

8/29/2012 9:48:30 PM

NASA is full of these examples (... I think )

8/29/2012 10:48:47 PM

it would be a cool if there were a lamp that replicates the original light bulb

8/29/2012 10:55:00 PM

So like Thog the caveman one day discovers fire and is like "Hmmmm this isn't really useful" but then a few days later his brother Og starts using it to cook meat?

8/29/2012 11:03:00 PM

I think NASA invented Velcro which is now used by everyone for 1000 different things.

Not sure if that is good or even true. I don't know write your own damn papers.

8/29/2012 11:03:45 PM

lorentz contraction by lorentz i assume. hamilton did some math stuff too. then einstein use em as fundamental parts of special relativity. the person A's never used these new math tricks to show that there was no need for a medium

am i remember it right?

8/29/2012 11:08:07 PM

^^Actually that is a common misconception. NASA didn't invent velcro, they just improved upon it and made it popular. Back in the early days of space travel it was a pain in the ass to keep tools/pencils/etc. from floating around when not in use -- velcro was the perfect solution.

8/29/2012 11:33:18 PM

I thought NASA just made it popular and nothing else.

[Edited on August 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM. Reason : .]

8/30/2012 8:52:40 AM

8/30/2012 11:27:54 AM

Copernicus was the first to provide scientific justification for heliocentrism via publishing his De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. Kepler and Galileo et al. continued to push it, the latter to his detriment. It wasn't until Newton applied his physics to the planets in Principia Mathematica that people started to wake up. And the rest, as you know, is history.

8/30/2012 11:51:07 AM

I was wondering when Tesla was going to show up.

8/30/2012 11:51:51 AM

Watson and Crick "discovered" the double helix by just doing literature review.

8/30/2012 11:52:15 AM