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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

  • Apathy TreeEnglish
    8•5 months ago

    Probably far fewer than never had the opportunity to realize they could be great in the first place.

    If greatness is one in a billion we have 8 (boy would the richest like us to believe that!). If it’s one in 100 million (I’m bad at math. I think it’s like) 80. Or if it’s one in a million, that’s 350 in the US alone. I’m inclined to lean toward the later, after all, if there aren’t a lot of greats waiting to be called up, how the fuck did we beat the odds by such a large margin??

    • @deur@feddit.nlEnglish
      0•5 months ago

      The greats are beat into submission by capitalism and the horrors they went through to achieve greatness (usually a garbage childhood of some variety)