Vacuum Airship - Hackdot

Re:Vacuum Airship by justinclift on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:28AM (#36799055)

> His patent application was eventually denied on the basis that it was "wholly theoretical, everything being based upon calculation and nothing upon trial or demonstration."

The standards for what's considered patentable have certainly changed for the worse since then.

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Re:Vacuum Airship by dvh on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:34AM (#36799103)

These days it's more like:

    for x in `cat /usr/share/dict/words`; do
        submit-patent "airship filled with $x"
    done

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Re:Vacuum Airship by dodslaser on Thursday July 20, 2023 @08:34AM (#36799573)

My airship is full of eels

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Re:Vacuum Airship by glumreaper on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:13AM (#36799957)

Outstanding comment! Bound to fly over the head of some in HN.

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Re:Vacuum Airship by appplication on Thursday July 20, 2023 @01:42PM (#36803977)

It’s an airship, it’s bound to fly over all of our heads. Unlike those pesky hovercraft.

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Re:Vacuum Airship by rascul on Thursday July 20, 2023 @09:05AM (#36799867)

Sorry, I can't help myself.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/DontReadLinesWithFor

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Re:Vacuum Airship by adolph on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:09AM (#36800692)

Oh hai, I see you are building a bike shed. You might consider a curl call over to OpenAI for all the method/apparatus/etc patent-talk.

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