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Old 01-23-2018, 05:19 PM   #391
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Elephants are not domesticated and never have been. Trained is not at all the same thing.
I think that is more an artifact of culture rather than an artifact of biology. Elephants are very expensive to keep and, until the 1900s, there were always a lot of wild elephants that could be captured and trained (though in a rather cruel fashion). With the reduced numbers of wild elephants though, it might be worthwhile to domesticate the survivors (though they might end up domestication us instead because elephants are very, very intelligent).
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Old 01-23-2018, 05:22 PM   #392
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Here's another thing to bring back from some parallel somewhere:

A new office supply. Some tiny useful item we never thought of.
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Old 01-23-2018, 08:05 PM   #393
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That's a good one. I remember a story where someone got displaced between worlds. He ended up rich by introducing the paperclip and stapler.
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Old 01-23-2018, 08:05 PM   #394
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Now I'm imagining some cross-time inventor failing at every get quick scheme except the "modern" paperclip design.
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Old 01-24-2018, 04:32 AM   #395
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That's a good one. I remember a story where someone got displaced between worlds. He ended up rich by introducing the paperclip and stapler.
Larry Niven, "On a Foggy Night."
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Old 01-24-2018, 05:41 AM   #396
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It's the simple little inventions that are the hardest to think up and the most profitable in this setting. Mainly because of the ease of introducing the invention to the marketplace.
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Old 01-24-2018, 11:31 AM   #397
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Larry Niven, "On a Foggy Night."
Thanks. Now I know where to start looking if I want to reread it.
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Old 01-24-2018, 03:30 PM   #398
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IIRC the adhesive for Post-It notes was an accident, it just didn't dry as expected. One of the 3M R&D people came up with the idea afterwards and couldn't get approval. So he made a batch and gave them to the executive secretaries. When they ran out and asked for more he told them that management had said that the postits were not worth making. A short secretarial revolt later they changed their mind.
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Old 01-24-2018, 03:42 PM   #399
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That's a good one. I remember a story where someone got displaced between worlds. He ended up rich by introducing the paperclip and stapler.
Ninja-ed by what must have been literally seconds as both our time stamps are the same.
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Old 01-25-2018, 01:00 AM   #400
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Elephants are not domesticated and never have been. Trained is not at all the same thing.
Not sure what distinction you're making, but domesticated elephants are pretty common in Thailand, for example.
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