XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Samstag000014, 14.02.2026 um 17:10 schrieb john larkin:   
   ...   
   >>> There's no legal restrictions on inventing things here in the USA.   
   >>> Lots of people do it, amateurs included.   
   >>>   
   >>> The vacuum diode (Edison effect), the triode, the airplane, the   
   >>> klystron, electronic TV, the personal computer, lots of stuff was   
   >>> invented by unauthorized people.   
   >>   
   >> Sure, but the USA has also some reputation for confiscating unwanted   
   >> inventions.   
   >>   
   >> There had been several instances, where patents got locked away, because   
   >> they would threaten 'national security'.   
   >>   
   >> There were interesting inventions, which could eventually had advanced   
   >> mankind, but were allegedly threatening some interests.   
   >>   
   >> E.g. there was Stan Meyers' 'Watercar', Tesla's 'Wardencliff Tower' or   
   >> Wilhelm Reich's 'Cloudbuster', the 'cure for cancer' by Royal Raimund   
   >> Reife or magnetic levitation in Coral Castle.   
   >>   
   >> I personally had the idea, that 'cold fusion' actually worked and was   
   >> possibly the real cause of the implosion of the twintowers on 9/11.   
   >>   
   >> So, yes, inventions are allowed in the USA, but are actually a risky   
   >> thing, because all of the above got in trouble.   
   >>   
   >> ...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> TH   
   >   
   > Exactly. Risk is encouraged in the USA.   
   >   
   > I go to maker/startup meetings where people present really nutty (and   
   > often funded) ideas. That sort of thing is admired here.   
      
   Sure, but I have written already, that inventions are encouraged in the USA.   
      
   What isn't encouraged, that are new products, which endanger established   
   economic interests.   
      
   So: inventing a 'perpetuum mobile', for instance, is actually allowed.   
   But beware of selling one!   
      
   And there is actually a long list of things, which people would love to   
   have:   
      
   Rife's cure for cancer for instance   
      
   or:   
      
   'cold fusion'   
      
   'water cars'   
      
   Reich's 'cloudbusters'   
      
   a 'Haunebu IV' of the Nazis   
      
   'Starlight' shielding   
      
   Hemp cars   
      
   light bulbs lasting one hundred years   
      
   ...   
      
   TH   
      
      
      
   TH   
      
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