Too many notes: No Plans No Prototype No Backup

The description seems to constantly note that this is an inaccurate trope. I'm going to take a chainsaw to it if nobody gives a good reason not to.

Fight smart, not fair.

Yeah, I don't see any reason why we can't just axe the third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs completely and leave everything else exactly as-is.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Chopped. Left an edit reason.

Anything else?

Fight smart, not fair.

Took out a bit more, about how inventions don't happen in a vacuum; and trimmed, tweaked and replaced the "Doesn't apply" section.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

This doesn't strike me as something that needs a Useful Notes, since most of it is stuff that comes to mind if you think about it and remember "back up and document as much as possible".

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It looks to me like almost all (if not all) Real Life examples don't fit this trope. They generally fit under Lost Forever (which oddly has a very small Real Life section) but most of them were distributed publicly (and/or prototyped meticulously) and simply lost to time. Some examples are even about natural phenomena. What do you guys think?

edited 10th Sep '11 3:50:37 AM by phasmid

I tend to agree. There are also a number of them where while it may be accurate to say there was no prototype, it's not true that there were no plans. And it's not that there was no backup, it's that the backups have been destroyed because the thing was deemed obsolete or useless.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

That, for one, is Wrong On So Many Levels.

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

Bump for cleanup of the Real Life examples.

I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.

I axed quite a few bad ones. May have left a few, though.

Yeah, unwritten rule number one: follow all the unwritten procedures. - Camacan

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edited 19th Jan '12 2:49:26 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.