Art wrote:" but I don't think it would be wise to share anything online under the circumstances."
Thats ok Dwayne , I'll send you my private mailing address by mail if you could give me yours so as I can do that ! . I promise to let you know before I drop in - if I happen to be in the neighbourhood to deliver a reply .
I'll be the one dressed in black ! :)
...lol
Maybe I should reconsider my reckless offline behavior?!
Normally, people I share my ideas with will perhaps show a little bit of interest and then will just go on about their business. Seeing that no one really seemed to stop what they had been doing so as to start building prototypes of my "inventions" (...or, of course, crazy half-baked notions), actually helped me get over any sort of youthful fears I had of getting my inventive ideas stolen.
(Heck, if I, being the one with the ideas, don't have the passion to get them built and tested, it's certainly not very likely someone else will.)
I was once surprised by an exception to what seemed to be people's typical behavior, though. I told a friend's new wife (who I found out had graduated 2nd in her high school class and taught college courses in molecular biology) about one of my most promising gravity related ideas. Not only did she seem to be excited about it, but when I saw her some time later, she told me she had actually been thinking about it and believed there might really be something to it and compared it to some process that happens in cellular biology!
Now that they've moved away, I can no longer keep tabs on her, either! I hope she doesn't get it working before I do! ;)
...or she's started wearing black!
Maybe I need my paranoia back!