re: What's a great idea you had that you sadly discovered somebody already came up with?

The fax machine

Had an idea once that I pursued a bit until I thought it would be a tech and legal nightmare.

I found out years later someone actually did it....and Facebook sued them out of existence

No splash urinal cakes.... I could have made a fortune

Bottled water

The illumibowl is the GOAT

Feed mayonnaise to the tuna, call Starkist

I postulated all of these concepts.....

1. Horizontal Gene Transfer

2. Epigenesis

3. (Through-Space) Chemical Interactions

4. Pissing in someone's trench-coat pocket on a crowded elevator through a rolled up newspaper.

I came up with the concept of a rail gun/gauss rifle when I was like nine or ten. I was playing around with those little homemade electromagnets you can make with a nail, copper wire, and battery that I did for a science project. My dad helped me install a simple switch in the chain and I thought about having hundreds of them in a row synchronized to pull a projectile through a barrel without any propellant. I told my friend about the idea and he said it was the dumbest thing he had ever heard of.

Bringing Bud's Boiler to Baton Rouge

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