If i have a good idea that can travel very fast in the universe, will soneone in NASA steal my idea?

Question

or any undergraduate astronomer, scientist, and anyone that want to be rich, steal my idea and converts to their idea?

Answer 1

If you have such a great idea that no one figured out before, just stealing an idea would not help much, as they would want to tap the great mind behind. Look at Linus Torvalds, the man behind Linux; Linux is free and the code itself is totally open; yet he is hired by mega corporation (for lots of money) because he has brains.

Answer 2

Yes patent your idea that way the only people who can steal your idea is the government, but at least there not stealing it for personal glory. besides the government = your country & your country = patriotism so everything will be fine.

Answer 3

Hmmm.

I'm not so sure the well spring that produced the question "Will people steal for money?"  is going to produce much NASA is going to find interesting.

Maybe I'm just being mean, but I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Answer 4

Patent it. The US Patent Office now patents all kind of non-working stuff.

Answer 5

If you post it here with all the blueprints and send them a working model, maybe.  But chances are there's something you haven't considered that will keep your idea from working.  You could always write up your idea and send it to a journal - if it gets published, everyone knows it was your idea.  Or if you can build a working model, patent it.  But frankly, if your biggest worry is someone stealing your idea, I doubt it will work.