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Dec 02, 2009
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Absurd Ideas

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Albert Einstein was once quoted as saying if at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Absurd indeed.

When I first started my work on Cable-Propelled Transit (CPT), I hid it from everyone.  I knew it was an absurd idea and the last thing I wanted to get tagged as was that lunatic who thinks we should use ski-lifts for transit.

I didn’t even tell my girlfriend, and I tell her everything.

It was only after intense digging through obscure research that I realized the idea wasn’t absurd at all. In fact, it wasn’t even my idea; CPT had been implemented successfully in several different places.

Was the idea unique? Totally. Absurd? Not at all.

Suddenly, there was hope.

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