XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Thomas Heger  wrote:   
      
   > 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   
   >   
   > ...   
      
   You forgot about the everlasting tinfoil hats...   
      
   Jan   
      
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