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The Museum of Unworkable Devices
Jippy_ writes "The quest for perpetual motion has been going on since at least the 11th century according to this site, and scientists have been getting it wrong ever since. Take a gander at some of the most valiant efforts (and ultimately the biggest failures) in trying to beat the laws of physics through the last 1000 years, along with other impossible inventions and devices."
the server that hosted the site!
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
MS-Windows Museum :-P
(somebody had to say it)
Table-ized A.I.
do they have a BeBox?
...Lisa Simpson?
alias uptime="echo '5:33pm up 22342352324 days, 6:28, 2124315623 users, load average: 2432.40, 12312.31, 123123.19'"
For new bogus-physics product companies to get coverage from wired.com and get 10 million in funding
I think that the problem with these devices isn't the laws of physics per se, I think its just that they were never properly marketed.
Hey, I'm just your average shit and piss factory.
My nomination for the museum of unworkable devices is DRM
Where's the cat with buttered toast attached to its back?
Hydrogen Fuel Cells?
;-)
Surely they must be there, at least for another 10 years
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
The quest for perpetual motion has been going on since at least the 11th century
Without ever stopping!
what of the timecube?
I have requested that the UCS, or
Union of Concerned Scientists, act
to evaluate Nature's Harmonic Time
Cube Principle of Creation - for the
welfare of children, nature and the
future of all humanity. The dumb,
stupid and evil bastards have ignored
their obligation to their humanity
fellowship to research Time Cube,
and deserve to be spit upon publicly.
It is their moral duty to test Time
Cube, and a curse of evil if they ignore
the greatest discovery of humanity.
I have offered $10,000.00 to the evil
bastards if they disprove Time Cube.
They can't disprove it, so they hide
like yellow-belly bastards they are.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
A flawless design for a perpetual motion machine... the only thing I need to make it work are a couple monopole magnets and a room-temperature superconductor. Honest!
Send $1,000 to P.O. box 324, NY, NY 20002 to get in on the ground floor!!
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
I mean even the server follows the spirit of the exhibits!
I stole this Sig
The Troll Engine.
what it does is post a comment extoling the virtues of Windows 95 over Linux. It then uses the heat generated by the ensuing flamewar to power a small town.
I have a design for a perpetual motion machine that almost works.
It was cool !! Metal wheels and magnets to pull itself along !! Never figured out how to stop it though.
They think that perpetual motion is impossible, but I'm almost there!
There's just one small problem with friction in the defrobnication rotor. All I need is some funding to fabricate a new one out of frictionless unobtainium, and then we'll see who's laughing!
I'd be happy to demo the system to anyone willing to make a nominal million dollar investment. Second Law, make your time!
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
www.fogbound.net
theyre named ididntdoit (3) and where did he go? (6) they never run out of energy (just ask my wife!!!!)
...everything is invested in helping a destitute royal from Nigeria. As soon as I get the millions promised in the email, I will invest in your project.
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My father didn't understand why you can't build a car that ran forever off battery energy forever replenished by an electric generator on each wheel, more wheels added as needed.