They called me mad at the academy...
Apr. 10th, 2003 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetI am, as you might have guessed, not having a productive workday.
I just spent a little time surfing the "quack science" world on the web, and it strikes me how many people seem convinced that because they are misunderstood and mocked, they *must* be geniuses.
Which leads me to wonder: Are there examples of fictional mad scientists whose doomsday devices just plain don't work, whose theories were mocked because they were, in fact, ridiculous and impossible?
"And now, Mr. Bond, you will watch helplessly as I test my earthquake machine on... Oh. Hmm. Maybe if it had more francium."
I think that would make for a fine climax to a movie.
I just spent a little time surfing the "quack science" world on the web, and it strikes me how many people seem convinced that because they are misunderstood and mocked, they *must* be geniuses.
Which leads me to wonder: Are there examples of fictional mad scientists whose doomsday devices just plain don't work, whose theories were mocked because they were, in fact, ridiculous and impossible?
"And now, Mr. Bond, you will watch helplessly as I test my earthquake machine on... Oh. Hmm. Maybe if it had more francium."
I think that would make for a fine climax to a movie.
