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Cavyherd

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @odoben

And also blindingly obvious—once you've noticed them.

Not *directly* related, but somebody (Clarke? Asimov? Sagan? Adams?) once pointed out that every breakthrough in science starts with somebody walking past a thing they've seen a thousand times before, pausing, looking closer, & thinking, "Hm. That's odd—"

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Cavyherd

@daico @failedLyndonLaRouchite @odoben

Yes, that sounds right. I'm always charry of specific attribution, though, due to the whole [Wrong famous person quoted as saying plausible Clever Thing] thing. (Seriously, there's gotta be a word for this.)

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