>>12747412I unironically know someone whos PhD research touched on similar areas, so I got introduced to this thinking it would just be a bunch of bullshit, but there's a lot of surprisingly nifty gadgets made based on his designs.
Some of his ideas were actually quite interesting and are used in river management and forestry (which is pretty obvious since that was his job).
>>12747438this is wrong, or you may be thinking of the more out there UFO stuff because it's not that hard to find examples of his inventions which work and we're certainly capable of replicating a lot of what he did
