[SI-LIST] Re: AW: Re: Not quite ready to let go of the WOM gag yet ....
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- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:03:00 -0600
There is a guy who lives a few blocks from me who has an actual windmill
mounted on the back of his pickup. I asked him about it one day and he said
"You wouldn't believe the gas I save by generating electricity with the
windmill." He didn't look like the type who would want to know about the Second
Law, so I just said, "What an interesting idea." Hope - and suckers - spring
eternal, as the saying goes. Actually no one has satisfactorily proven the
Second Law yet, so who knows? The Universe looks sort of like a Perpetuum
Mobile in some ways. At least it's been going for several billion years, and
appears to be speeding up, not slowing down.
Art Porter
Agilent Technologies
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Some people try to make money with gags. I found I site where a guy offers
books that tell you how to refit your car into a hydrogene driven "perpetuum
mobile".
For me this is absolutely hilorious (especially the reactor he's showing)
http://www.buildahydrogenengine.info/
Unfortunately there are people believing this sh*t and buying the book.
Gert Havermann
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You can find us in hall 11, stand C13.
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My favorite was the flashdark. You turn it on in the daylight and it casts a
beam of darkness. Kind of like some managers, college professors, and
politicians, just to name three groups who frequently cast darkness on things
that are otherwise fully illuminated.
Art Porter
Agilent Technologies
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Two other favorites of mine, wondering if anyone knows of a link to them ...
The Dark Emitting Diode (DeD) - I think this was a magazine article. The
devices were produced by taking ordinary LEDs and subjecting them to 120VAC.
They were reported to be useful as power-off indicators, and boasted a
manufacturing yield of 100%.
The Vacuum Tube Modem - also a magazine article (I think). Reported to achieve
incredible speeds by taking advantage of nonlinear behavior intrinsicto the
device. Also reported in the same article - a Russian tube-based
microprocessor, based on a single tube. It was called the PentiumProtubeski,
if my memory is correctly functioning in a write-read capacity.
If you've got links to those articles, they'd be greatly appreciated.
Todd.
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