The massive structure of information available in a wiki, or an open source software project such as the FreeBSD kernel could be compared to a termite nest ; one initial user leaves a seed of an idea ( a mudball ) which attracts other users who then build upon and modify this initial concept, eventually constructing an elaborate structure of connected thoughts.

The idea of constructing Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft using helicopter-like rotors at the wingtips originated in the 1930s.

Charles V is credited with the first idea of constructing an American Isthmus canal in Panama as early as 1520.

This work struck de Lesseps's imagination, and gave him the idea of constructing a canal across the African isthmus.

Hans Peter Kürten, at that time Mayor of Remagen, had long considered the idea of constructing a memorial.

Ezra made his fortune in the telegraph business as an associate of Samuel Morse, having gained his trust by constructing and stringing the telegraph poles between Washington, D. C. and Baltimore, Maryland, as the first ever telegraph line of substance in the U. S. To address the problem of telegraph lines shorting out to the ground, Cornell invented the idea of using glass insulators at the point where telegraph lines are connected to supporting poles.

The MTA and Caltrans, an ardent proponent of the extension, has recently proposed the idea of constructing an underground tunnel to complete the so-called " 710 gap.

The idea for constructing the canal is credited to Morristown businessman George P. MacCulloch, who reportedly conceived the idea while visiting Lake Hopatcong.

The idea of constructing a covered stadium for a major league football and / or baseball team was first proposed to Seattle officials in 1959.

Hence, in constructing a synthetic idea of God, before one can apply to the Divinity any concept or term expressing a perfection found in created being, it must be subjected to rigorous correction.

Young had become infatuated with the idea of constructing the Tabernacle in an elongated dome shape.

Having witnessed the death of a talented Russian pilot Lev Matsivich and been shocked by it, he became obsessed with the idea of constructing a parachute, to which he devoted several years of his life as well as all his personal savings.

The current two giant statues of workers constructing the Metro were to have been accompanied by a third, representing a foreman, but this idea was judged superfluous and scrapped.

The idea of constructing a grand Indonesian national mosque was launched by KH.

The idea of constructing the causeway was based on improving the links and bonds between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

But the idea of building a dignified edifice to serve as a theatre matured in the autumn of 1844 at the gatherings of patriots in Prague and began to be implemented by an application submitted by František Palacký to the Provincial Committee of the Czech Assembly on January 29, 1845, having requested " the privilege of constructing, furnishing, maintaining and managing " of an independent Czech theatre.

Newspeak ideas are expressed using those few roots and constructing a new idea by synthesis ; for example, doubleplusungood means " extremely unsatisfactory ".

The idea of an automated spacecraft capable of constructing copies of itself was first proposed in scientific literature in 1974 by Michael A. Arbib, but the concept had appeared earlier in science fiction such as the 1967 novel Berserker by Fred Saberhagen or the 1950 novellette trilogy The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt ( see self-replicating machines in fiction, below ).

Bruno Cavallo, a local sign manufacturer and artist, also had an idea of constructing a five-cent coin out of chromium.

This approach is essentially the idea behind the post-Newtonian approximations used in constructing models of a gravitating system such as a binary pulsar.

The idea of constructing a northern bypass for Wilmington was initially identified by the North Carolina Department of Transportation ( NCDOT ) as a need in 1972.

Some environmental groups protested against this project, but the constructing of this tunnel still hasn't progressed further than the idea stage.

The idea of constructing a rapid transit line in the country was initiated in 1967, when a four year State and City Planning study conducted by the Singapore government and the United Nations Development Programme.

I mean such concepts as the presence of the supernatural in human affairs, the sacraments of grace and divine retribution, the idea of preordainment ( the oracle over Oedipus, the prophecy of the witches to Macbeth, or God's covenant with His people in Athalie ).

The trouble is that at first glance the idea looks like such a good one.

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.

But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.

The idea has received much attention in philosophy, in literature, and in a few works of general social criticism, such as The Sane Society.

He contends this idea doesn't conflict with experiments on which the principle of conservation of matter and energy is based because some slight error must be assumed in such experiments.

His recent experience in motor car advertising, a love for cars of themselves, the existence of A-Z's useless Wisconsin set-up, exposure to exciting conceptions of Hamrick's that nobody would buy, and the coincidental recent failure of a respected but out-dated small-car manufacturer called Ticonderoga Motors had given him an idea of such dimensions he was almost afraid to broach it.

The idea that alternative mathematical systems might exist was very troubling to mathematicians of the 19th century and the developers of systems such as Boolean algebra made elaborate efforts to derive them from traditional arithmetic.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

Another problem is that Dutton's categories seek to universalise traditional European notions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as André Malraux and others have pointed out, there have been large numbers of cultures in which such ideas ( including the idea " art " itself ) were non-existent.

As such, the idea of alcohol for analgesia is generally considered a primitive practice in virtually all industrialized countries today.

One such example is the idea of original sin as a lack of justice.

Chains of abstractions can therefore be constructed moving from neural impulses arising from sensory perception to basic abstractions such as color or shape to experiential abstractions such as a specific cat to semantic abstractions such as the " idea " of a CAT to classes of objects such as " mammals " and even categories such as " object " as opposed to " action ".

This idea has been considered in detail back in time to extreme densities and temperatures, and large particle accelerators have been built to experiment in such conditions, resulting in further development of the model.

That is, when one sees these things for what they are, the idea of forming positions on such metaphysical questions simply does not occ.

Johnson ( 1724 ) described him as " such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.

It was Greg Stafford's idea to simplify the rules ( eliminating such things as Strike Ranks and Hit Locations ) and issue them in a 16 page booklet called Basic Role Playing.

Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium ( such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape, or a computer file ), the copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights.

Feature films such as Enemy of the State and Shooter, among scores of others, propound conspiracies as a normal state of affairs, having dropped the idea of questioning conspiracies typical of movies of eras prior to about 1970.