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Did you post in it recently? I don't see anything, and somehow I think a thread about peacocks and funding might have caught my attention. Which forum was it in?
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Yes, that thread was deleted. It is up to the Op to start a new one. It was an interesting idea and would deserve a reincarnation.
I want to thank those members who interacted with me a couple of years ago in two Optics Forum threads. They were @Drakkith, @hutchphd, @Gleb1964, and @KAHR-Alpha. I had something I wanted the scientific community to know and slipped a new idea in against the rules. Thank you also to @berkeman for suggesting paths to meet with academia.
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