Many new ideas seem ridiculous and laughable to begin with and some ideas are found to be practical, like the bouncing bomb, while other ideas are not, like the example above. Many people, at one time, thought the notion of a jet engine to provide the propulsion for powered flight to be totally ridiculous or the idea that a tank could be useful on the battlefield as laughable.
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