Cancer Inventors
This topic was created in the Cancer forum by Damnata on Thursday, December 5, 2013 and has 19 replies.
I think I read more about cancer inventors then about any other sign...and they always seemed to be followed by a constant cloud of bad luck..other people downright stealing their ideas or doing everything they could to sabotage them (like Edison who destroyed Tesla's career).
Gregor Mendel
You probably know Mendel as the guy who pioneered the science of genetics, and for keeping eighth-graders busy while science teachers watch porn at their desks. Anybody with a high school diploma has filled out those dominant/recessive trait Punnett squares though astute readers are probably wondering why that technique is called a Punnett square if it predicts patterns Mendel discovered.
What you probably didn't know was that before making his revolutionary discovery, Gregor Mendel flunked his ass out of school and resigned himself to a quiet life as the abbot of a monastery. It had an extensive experimental garden and there Mendel patiently spent the next seven years of his life breeding and cross-breeding peas.
He carefully documented his work and developed what would eventually be known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. Then he wrote it up and got it published in an lesser-known journal, the Journal of the Brno Natural History Society in 1866.
His Genius Was Rewarded By ...
A quiet life of complete anonymity. Mendel's work was read by about zero people, even after he took it upon himself to contact the highest minds of his time by personally sending them copies of his theory. It turns out he would have been better off writing it on a paper bag filled with dog shit and leaving the whole flaming mess on porches.
Why did they ignore him? Because the greatest minds of his time couldn't understand him. It wasn't until 16 years after his death that three independent botanists rediscover Mendel's work and started the genetics ball rolling.
Gregor Mendel
You probably know Mendel as the guy who pioneered the science of genetics, and for keeping eighth-graders busy while science teachers watch porn at their desks. Anybody with a high school diploma has filled out those dominant/recessive trait Punnett squares though astute readers are probably wondering why that technique is called a Punnett square if it predicts patterns Mendel discovered.
What you probably didn't know was that before making his revolutionary discovery, Gregor Mendel flunked his ass out of school and resigned himself to a quiet life as the abbot of a monastery. It had an extensive experimental garden and there Mendel patiently spent the next seven years of his life breeding and cross-breeding peas.
He carefully documented his work and developed what would eventually be known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. Then he wrote it up and got it published in an lesser-known journal, the Journal of the Brno Natural History Society in 1866.
His Genius Was Rewarded By ...
A quiet life of complete anonymity. Mendel's work was read by about zero people, even after he took it upon himself to contact the highest minds of his time by personally sending them copies of his theory. It turns out he would have been better off writing it on a paper bag filled with dog shit and leaving the whole flaming mess on porches.
Why did they ignore him? Because the greatest minds of his time couldn't understand him. It wasn't until 16 years after his death that three independent botanists rediscover Mendel's work and started the genetics ball rolling.
Ignaz Semmelweis
We've brought up poor old Semmelweis once before, but just in case you don't have a running loop of Cracked articles going through your head, here's the recap: Back in 1847, Semmelweis found himself in charge of two maternity clinics. The first clinic was a teaching school, with medical students learning birthing, autopsying and everything in between. The second clinic was intended for women who couldn't afford health care and was serviced by midwives, not actual doctors or students.
Yet it was the second clinic that women of all social statuses begged to get into. Why? Because if they went to the first clinic they'd have a 10 percent chance of dying of puerperal fever, a six percent greater rate of death than in the midwife-run hospital. Women literally had a better chance of surviving a birth on the street than in the first clinic. After an exhaustive study, Semmelweis figured out that medical students were smothered in disease cooties from cadavers, and that maybe, just maybe, they should wash their hands in between the autopsy room and the birthing rooms.
He insisted students perform a simple chlorine wash after handling dead guys and immediately got the death rate down to one to two percent. With numbers like that, you'd think the whole continent of Europe, much less the medical community, would have crowned him "king of live babies" or something.
His Genius Was Rewarded By ...
First dementia, then a beatdown at an insane asylum, then death, by virtually the same disease he had eradicated in his own hospital.
Semmelweis didn't just have the disregard of his contemporaries, he had their flat-out scorn. Maybe it was because he didn't get around to explaining himself on paper right away, so no one understood what hand-washing had to do with keeping people alive. Some doctors were actually insulted that he was accusing Viennese medical students being dirty enough to kill people.
Within 14 years of his groundbreaking discovery, Semmelweis just stopped giving a fuck. He got drunk all the time and called all his detractors "ignoramuses" and "murderers." He started chilling with prostitutes and lashing out at family. That last part proved to be a bad move, because in 1865 they had him committed to an insane asylum, where he was promptly beat up and stuck in a dark cellar...
We've brought up poor old Semmelweis once before, but just in case you don't have a running loop of Cracked articles going through your head, here's the recap: Back in 1847, Semmelweis found himself in charge of two maternity clinics. The first clinic was a teaching school, with medical students learning birthing, autopsying and everything in between. The second clinic was intended for women who couldn't afford health care and was serviced by midwives, not actual doctors or students.
Yet it was the second clinic that women of all social statuses begged to get into. Why? Because if they went to the first clinic they'd have a 10 percent chance of dying of puerperal fever, a six percent greater rate of death than in the midwife-run hospital. Women literally had a better chance of surviving a birth on the street than in the first clinic. After an exhaustive study, Semmelweis figured out that medical students were smothered in disease cooties from cadavers, and that maybe, just maybe, they should wash their hands in between the autopsy room and the birthing rooms.
He insisted students perform a simple chlorine wash after handling dead guys and immediately got the death rate down to one to two percent. With numbers like that, you'd think the whole continent of Europe, much less the medical community, would have crowned him "king of live babies" or something.
His Genius Was Rewarded By ...
First dementia, then a beatdown at an insane asylum, then death, by virtually the same disease he had eradicated in his own hospital.
Semmelweis didn't just have the disregard of his contemporaries, he had their flat-out scorn. Maybe it was because he didn't get around to explaining himself on paper right away, so no one understood what hand-washing had to do with keeping people alive. Some doctors were actually insulted that he was accusing Viennese medical students being dirty enough to kill people.
Within 14 years of his groundbreaking discovery, Semmelweis just stopped giving a fuck. He got drunk all the time and called all his detractors "ignoramuses" and "murderers." He started chilling with prostitutes and lashing out at family. That last part proved to be a bad move, because in 1865 they had him committed to an insane asylum, where he was promptly beat up and stuck in a dark cellar...
...
He died two weeks later. It took another 20 years and Louis Pasteur's germ theory for the rest of the world to come around to the concept of washing your hands to keep from getting sick.
Article: http://www.cracked.com/article_18822_5-famous-scientists-dismissed-as-morons-in-their-time.html
He died two weeks later. It took another 20 years and Louis Pasteur's germ theory for the rest of the world to come around to the concept of washing your hands to keep from getting sick.
Article: http://www.cracked.com/article_18822_5-famous-scientists-dismissed-as-morons-in-their-time.html
Einstein-pisces
Newton-capricorn
Darwin-aquarius
What other cancer inventors are you referring to bc i actually haven't noticed them dominating in that dept... Not a lot of bulls i noticed lol :-P
Newton-capricorn
Darwin-aquarius
What other cancer inventors are you referring to bc i actually haven't noticed them dominating in that dept... Not a lot of bulls i noticed lol :-P
Nikola Tesla
(July 10, 1856 ??? January 7, 1943) was a world-renowned Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He is best known for his revolutionary work in and numerous contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Tesla's patents and theoretical work form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture.[2] After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents," he was widely respected as America's greatest electrical engineer.[3] Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio. Never putting much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished and forgotten at the age of 86.
(July 10, 1856 ??? January 7, 1943) was a world-renowned Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He is best known for his revolutionary work in and numerous contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Tesla's patents and theoretical work form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture.[2] After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents," he was widely respected as America's greatest electrical engineer.[3] Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio. Never putting much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished and forgotten at the age of 86.
Inventors are largely unknown to much of the world today. If only they had reality television to help them stay relevant. You will have to do a bit of research.
Posted by Rabbit
Those aren't really inventors.
Innovators maybe.
Brilliant men, no doubt.
But they didn't "invent" anything.
Yup, innovators. I was searching for the term in my mind
Posted by Rabbit
Those aren't really inventors.
Innovators maybe.
Brilliant men, no doubt.
But they didn't "invent" anything.
Posted by AbbyNormal
Einstein-pisces
Newton-capricorn
Darwin-aquarius
What other cancer inventors are you referring to bc i actually haven't noticed them dominating in that dept...click to expand
This is one of the reasons Cancers have to push themselves more to "prove" their ideas and thoughts. It takes an emotional toll on them and I can see where they give up and say *fuk the world* They have to overcome the facts that
People jump on the negative first...
People don't take Cancers too seriously...
Notice both signs that posted to challenge, not the OP, but IF Cancers are indeed "inventors" or how famous of inventors they are, were Fixed signs. Mutables can go either way but I'm sure there were some Fixed fuckers behind the demise of the Cancer inventors you mentioned in the OP
Tesla is one of my heroes 
And yes Rabbit innovators they were... Look up "invent" and tell me what you think and im sure you will... Taurus v. Scorpio... Fixed v. Fixed... Lol
For the sake of time, you're right you could say innovators is a more fitting term :-P
And yes Rabbit innovators they were... Look up "invent" and tell me what you think and im sure you will... Taurus v. Scorpio... Fixed v. Fixed... Lol
For the sake of time, you're right you could say innovators is a more fitting term :-P
Posted by shellshockerPosted by Rabbit
Those aren't really inventors.
Innovators maybe.
Brilliant men, no doubt.
But they didn't "invent" anything.
Posted by AbbyNormal
Einstein-pisces
Newton-capricorn
Darwin-aquarius
What other cancer inventors are you referring to bc i actually haven't noticed them dominating in that dept...
This is one of the reasons Cancers have to push themselves more to "prove" their ideas and thoughts. It takes an emotional toll on them and I can see where they give up and say *fuk the world* They have to overcome the facts that
People jump on the negative first...
People don't take Cancers too seriously...
Notice both signs that posted to challenge, not the OP, but IF Cancers are indeed "inventors" or how famous of inventors they are, were Fixed signs. Mutables can go either way but I'm sure there were some Fixed fuckers behind the demise of the Cancer inventors you mentioned in the OPclick to expand
Oh I meant no harm in my first statement and i probably could have worded it better... I was really asking who else... Im really interested in stuff like this...
A lot of my fav comedians are cancers
that's where they dominate for me! Them and virgos :-PPosted by CluelessCancer
Isn't this a fuking CANCER thread, did it say Scorpio or any other wack sign, unless you have anything positive to share, you can get the FUK out...
Oh calm down and put your pinchers up... Aint nobody cancer bashing here just interested folks talking about an interesting topic
I had an honest question that came across wrong
yes, yes.. we know this
It's not that there was intent to be negative or have something come out wrong... it just that (fixed) type roots are on the opposite spectrum of (cardinal) type innovation.
example:
My son is a Taurus... his sister a Gemini. She tells crazy, wild stories that are obviously fabricated but she is expressing her creativity. She knows it, I know it... but all the bull wants to do is point out her inconsistencies and non-facts. He's a total kill joy but that's just the way he is.
I find the same with Aqua/Scorpio/Leo. They tend to look at what is wrong with your theory... rather than what is right about it.
no harm, no foul just interesting to observe..
It's not that there was intent to be negative or have something come out wrong... it just that (fixed) type roots are on the opposite spectrum of (cardinal) type innovation.
example:
My son is a Taurus... his sister a Gemini. She tells crazy, wild stories that are obviously fabricated but she is expressing her creativity. She knows it, I know it... but all the bull wants to do is point out her inconsistencies and non-facts. He's a total kill joy but that's just the way he is.
I find the same with Aqua/Scorpio/Leo. They tend to look at what is wrong with your theory... rather than what is right about it.
no harm, no foul just interesting to observe..
I assumed Tesla is well known to everyone. The other two weren't. I was reading that article and it made me realize how many brilliant people die without an ounce of recognition. I find Cancers to be brilliant but unassuming people and they get looked over a lot.
lol @ your virgo wife. scorpios can give virgos a run for their money in the criticism department any day of the week.
lol @ your virgo wife. scorpios can give virgos a run for their money in the criticism department any day of the week.
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Posted by shellshocker
This is one of the reasons Cancers have to push themselves more to "prove" their ideas and thoughts. It takes an emotional toll on them and I can see where they give up and say *fuk the world* They have to overcome the facts that
People jump on the negative first...
People don't take Cancers too seriously...
Notice both signs that posted to challenge, not the OP, but IF Cancers are indeed "inventors" or how famous of inventors they are, were Fixed signs. Mutables can go either way but I'm sure there were some Fixed fuckers behind the demise of the Cancer inventors you mentioned in the OP
Hey don't hate.. appreciate
Edison was Aquarius though haha... and a fucking asshole -_-
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Posted by shellshocker
yes, yes.. we know this
It's not that there was intent to be negative or have something come out wrong... it just that (fixed) type roots are on the opposite spectrum of (cardinal) type innovation.
example:
My son is a Taurus... his sister a Gemini. She tells crazy, wild stories that are obviously fabricated but she is expressing her creativity. She knows it, I know it... but all the bull wants to do is point out her inconsistencies and non-facts. He's a total kill joy but that's just the way he is.
I find the same with Aqua/Scorpio/Leo. They tend to look at what is wrong with your theory... rather than what is right about it.
no harm, no foul just interesting to observe..
Well I dunno about wild stories. I mean if it's obvious and all about fun then okay, the only punching holes in the story for me would be I'd want a wild story that had creative non holes to it or w/e which should be easy to do considering it's fiction... meaning anything is possible.
As far as pointing out holes in a scientific theory... I mean I would want you to do the same to me no? LOL.. why should I accept some theory that has questionable things about it ^.^?
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Sad thing is this thread totally went off topic :/
Over all I think Cancers are a lot more bad ass then their astrological definition would give them. There are also quite a lot of great well known successful Cancers in history... I dunno why there is a need to prove it.
Over all I think Cancers are a lot more bad ass then their astrological definition would give them. There are also quite a lot of great well known successful Cancers in history... I dunno why there is a need to prove it.
Posted by NotYourAverageAquariusPosted by shellshocker
Notice both signs that posted to challenge, not the OP, but IF Cancers are indeed "inventors" or how famous of inventors they are, were Fixed signs. Mutables can go either way but I'm sure there were some Fixed fuckers behind the demise of the Cancer inventors you mentioned in the OP
Hey don't hate.. appreciate
Edison was Aquarius though haha... and a fucking asshole -_-click to expand
The thing about a Fixed sign is if you have one that believes in your idea/theory and will do their own research without dumping too many negatives... you have a great ali. Fixed has the staying power and stubbornness that can make a Cardinal idea take root.
Aquas are good for this.. their ideas are endless
Nicola Tesla
R. Buckminster Fuller
George Eastman
Johannes Gutenberg
Samuel Colt
Frederick Maytag
The Mayo Brothers
William Lear
R. Buckminster Fuller
George Eastman
Johannes Gutenberg
Samuel Colt
Frederick Maytag
The Mayo Brothers
William Lear
lol
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