Li, from Peter Dickinson’s novel A Bone from a Dry Sea, did not invent the fishing net and splints for broken bones.
Willow, from Jim Kjelgaard’s novel Fire Hunter, did not invent basketry. Hawk, from the same book, did not invent the bow and arrow.
And Jack and Annie from The Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne did not inspire Florence Nightingale to become a nurse, nor teach Alexander the Great how to tame Bucephalus, and a bunch of other things.
I think the proper grammatical phrasing is ; “have been will be”
Actually, it’s called a djinn particle. Djinn being the archaic term for a genie. (I suspect they deliberately chose this name because it is not associated with any characters from Disney movies.)
I already will know you were are going to post that.
He’s not the only one: BBC News | Europe | Russia: mother of invention?
Dr. Nichols did not invent transparent aluminum based on a formula supplied by Montgomery Scott in Star Trek IV.
And how do you know? It was implied the good doctor would need decades to turn the formula into a workable product.
(Actually, I misunderstood the story there the first time or two I watched ST4 - that they traded the formula for a big-ass sheet of plexiglas kind of slides through the dialogue, and I thought they were being absurd in having Nichols not only invent the stuff, but turn out a slab in the same day.)
That’s easy, 6". We keep that size in stock.
It was years after seeing the movie that I found out this was a confusing plot issue for some viewers. It seemed perfectly straightforward to me - Nichols trades stock items for the nifty-looking formula.
What’s actually a far bigger plot hole is that one could make multiple deliveries of large Plexiglas sheets via helicopter to Golden Gate Park (or indeed any park within walking distance of San Francisco) and not attract a lot of attention.
They could have used the cloaking device for the helicopters, couldn’t they?
Another minor nitpik, why did it have to be transparent anything? A steel bulkhead would work just fine. They can monitor things via the Trek-magic computer.
:::following the whales and the whalers:::
Kirk Boy: “On screen.”
Whale Lovin Chick: “You can do that?”
They could have, but they didn’t. They actually showed the helicopter hovering, and the sheets disappearing while being loaded into the cloaked Bird of Prey. I guess the park was empty that day and everyone that lived nearby didn’t notice. (I actually did live near Golden Gate Park, so that entire thing was really hard to swallow. Let alone there’s no empty space that could have a cloaked Bird Of Prey sitting there for more than an hour of daylight without people bumping into it trying to play soccer / jog / play fetch with their dog / etc. I was OK with the time traveling Humpback whale part, however)
Similarly, Hok the Mighty didn’t invent the bow and arrow either (from Manly Wade Wellman’s story “Hok Draws the Bow”).
Just so long as it wasn’t Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex.
In MEAN GIRLS, Gretchen Wieners is rich because her dad invented Toaster Strudel.
She also keeps trying to make “fetch” happen, but it’s not going to happen.
The rotted swans lay festering in the putrid mire…
Amos, the clever mouse and good friend of Ben Franklin in Robert Lawson’s kid’s book Ben and Me, inspires Franklin to invent the Franklin stove and bifocals, and plays a key role (ahem) in the scientist’s famous lightning experiment.
HBO’s The Knick (set in a New York hospital at the start of the 20th Century) is into this, as well. In the most recent episode (it’s not really a plot point but spoilered anyway):
Two characters discuss treatments for syphilis and come up with the idea of treating a patient by deliberately infecting him with malaria - the theory being that the sustained high fever will kill the virus without, hopefully, killing the patient, who can later be treated with quinine. In real life, the idea was discovered by Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who got a Nobel Prize for Medicine for it in 1927.
Who cares about Derek Zoolander anyway? The man has only one look, for Christ’s sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? THEY’RE THE SAME FACE! Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’m taking CRAZY pills! I INVENTED the piano-key necktie, I INVENTED it!