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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3631664" data-attributes="member: 25191">If it is to amount to anything, the “gained” aspect needs considerable investigation and clinical analysis. However, with the physiological differences I keep harping on in place, I doubt enough impetus would be found for manufacturers to invest a dollar in another mechanism to worry about it—thus: BB stacking.Even so, that kid Omid is doing a great job in getting patents and making a name for himself. If given his head, he might open new vistas for those who follow. Thomas Edison didn’t fail as many times as people think. He just discovered hundreds of filaments that would not work in making the incandescent light bulb. Philo Farnsworth was a 14-year old following a mule in a field near Rigby, Idaho when he struck with the notion of raster graphics. “Great” minds had been working on the problem for many years but coming up short.More often than not our understanding rests with our humble willingness to understand. You can’t fill a glass that’s already full. Those great minds were already full. To be humble is to be teachable. We have ALL benefitted from Philo's humility.Bill</blockquote>