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So, I wish I were joking, but I may have seriously had an idea over the weekend that would, in the fullness of time, lead to my attempted assasination and pre or post humous award of the Nobel Prize.
Steps to achieving world domination:
1) Read. Read, read, read. List in progress for trip to Powell's.
2) Actually do the reading. Cannot read without books.
3) Test the theory.
3a) required materials: pinball shooter mechanism, pump action mechanism from shotgun, squirt gun; many more to be determined.
4) Build.
5) Test the item.
6) ????
7) Die happy.
On a much more serious note, I don't want to discuss this in too much detail because these things go pearshaped, always, but if this could be done, it HAS to be done, and...I am not the person to do that, except that it would make my life a lot better if I didn't randomly wake up screaming in the night anymore. I mean, this is not something I can back out of unless I can do the reading to prove that someone has gotten there first (entirely possible) and the world doesn't need me. But..yeah, this would be a lot bigger than me, and if I didn't do it, I'd spend the rest of my life kicking myself, however little I want to commit several years to a project that is not in my native language of creativity.
For one thing, I'm not a mechanical engineer, nor do I particularly understand math and physics, and this will take both. And oh my god I had not realised how much I'd forgotten about electricity until someone tried to explain volts and amps to me. Please don't try; when my head bleeds I will get it on you on purpose.
Also: relatedly. My subconscious has gotten really really vocal about how I need to go out on a date. Yay.
Steps to achieving world domination:
1) Read. Read, read, read. List in progress for trip to Powell's.
2) Actually do the reading. Cannot read without books.
3) Test the theory.
3a) required materials: pinball shooter mechanism, pump action mechanism from shotgun, squirt gun; many more to be determined.
4) Build.
5) Test the item.
6) ????
7) Die happy.
On a much more serious note, I don't want to discuss this in too much detail because these things go pearshaped, always, but if this could be done, it HAS to be done, and...I am not the person to do that, except that it would make my life a lot better if I didn't randomly wake up screaming in the night anymore. I mean, this is not something I can back out of unless I can do the reading to prove that someone has gotten there first (entirely possible) and the world doesn't need me. But..yeah, this would be a lot bigger than me, and if I didn't do it, I'd spend the rest of my life kicking myself, however little I want to commit several years to a project that is not in my native language of creativity.
For one thing, I'm not a mechanical engineer, nor do I particularly understand math and physics, and this will take both. And oh my god I had not realised how much I'd forgotten about electricity until someone tried to explain volts and amps to me. Please don't try; when my head bleeds I will get it on you on purpose.
Also: relatedly. My subconscious has gotten really really vocal about how I need to go out on a date. Yay.
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