What is Revolutionary?

For just less than a decade, NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts was the staid space agency’s big-vision mashup of Willy Wonka’s factory, DARPA and your crazy uncle’s garage workshop. And now experts want to bring it back.

"Party on dude." - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure or...

What is Revolutionary?

1. The genius is in the generalities, and not the details.
2. The new idea illuminates a pathway toward an expansion of knowledge and may address a significant roadblock.
3. It inspires others to produce useful science and further elaboration of the fundamental idea.
4. It contributes to a major change in the framework of aerospace possibilities,
5. It triggers a transformation of intuition.
6. Revolutionary paradigm shifts are simple, elegant, majestic, beautiful and characterized by order and symmetry.

Sounds like creativity to me.
To get more info on the crazy side of NASA, click here.

Pretty awesome I must say.