I've always thought this if you look at when inventions occur around the world there are a lot of examples of two people who have never met and would have had no way to communicate inventing basically the same thing within a week or two of each other.
But this is weirder because it is two people having the same idea for an invention at the exact same time and then one randomly contacts the other asking for help working on it despite having no connection to each and never having publicly shared the idea
Yeah, it is probably even more common than you think. The examples I was thinking about where back before the age of the internet or phones. People would have to write messages and it would take weeks for them to arrive.
Now that we live in a very different world I assume this is sort of like the birthday paradox. If you have a particular skill and are thinking about things to do with it you might invent something. Others seeking someone for an idea would search for someone with the skill to do so.. its not as strange as it seems. Especially now that communication world-wide is instant in a lot of cases.
You both probably saw something online that contributed to this idea.
Sometimes I want to share a jewtube link about something interesting and realize that someone already did a couple minutes ahead of me. It always feels weird.
You know nothing of divine inspiration!
Yes. I read once that several people had simultaneously come up with the idea for the cotton gin. Eli Whitney got the patent. Odd indeed.
He stole it from some slaves. He even got sued by the slave owner but he had improved it with gears so it was different enough to be his patent.
Lol. This is a joke, right?
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