I have always been fascinated by the rise of Thomas Edison and his nemesis(?) Nikola Tesla. While I believe that Nikola was clearly the superior of the two, Thomas Edison seemed to embody this naive sense of "Can do" that we associate with the golden era of American innovation. Edison was cranking out gadget after gadget that the engineering minds of Europe had deemed "impossible", he was too dumb to know that these things "shouldn't work". Now that America has mostly "grown-up", it seems that all the "impossible" innovations are coming from Pacific rim nations that still seem to have a sense of mysticism about what is within the realm of possible rather than a stern engineering mind-set. I think this concept of "just try it, even if it makes no sense" can be applied even here to this mod. For example, many of the better veteran mappers had concluded that Melan's "Return to the City" was simply a design that could never be made to visportal well, yet Bikerdude simply put some elbow-grease in and "trial 'n error"-ed his way to 60FPS. Until the Ground Zero mod, LOD was deemed a wash for any performance benefit by most of the smartest folks at Doom3world. Conversely, Rich_is_Bored pulled-off a more Nikola Tesla style innovation by carefully studying Vertex blending properties for his "Real Translucency" method. Are there any other examples that you know of where not knowing what's "impossible" has lead to a break-through? Would it be better all around if we encouraged more random trials for things that engineers and scientists have "written-off"?