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Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention
Many users have written to tell us about a magnetic machine promising "infinite clean energy". Engadget has the first picture of the device and is reporting that the announcement (along with a short video) of this supposed device will be released later tonight. "CEO Sean McCarthy tells SilconRepublic how it works. Namely, the time variance in magnetic fields allows the Orbo platform to 'consistently produce power, going against the law of conservation of energy which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.' He goes on to say 'It's too good to be true but it is true. It will have such an impact on everything we do. The only analogy I can give is if you had absolute proof that God wasn't real.'" In my experience if something seems too good to be true it generally is. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
it is like Microsoft paying you for using Vista...oh! wait
Well, if you really invented something like this, the thing to do would be to openly publish the specs, and openly exhibit the engine. Also, openly explain how you think the machine works instead of spewing mumbo-jumbo (if you don't know how, say you don't know).
What the scam artists do instead is allow only a very limited observation of the device, and ask for more money to 'develop' the idea. This is exactly what these guys also do: going to allow you to spectate the machine from the pre-defined angles only, and ask for venture capital to continue.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
It was scientific LAW that the world was FLAT. 'Science' got that one wrong, to.
There's some really strong evidence that God isn't real.
What do you mean. Where's that evidence. The only evidence we have is that most religious books like the Bible and the Koran are childish, naive and wrong.
We don't know if there's no intelligence somewhere up the chain that caused what's down the chain. We're not even quite sure about what the bing bang is (start of time? how come it started. anything before it? or was it the beginning, or end and beginning is the same thing? and so on)
It's the loonies on the left that will fight this tooth-and-nail. I remember when Cold Fusion looked like it might actually happen. Clean, cheap energy in almost unlimited amounts. What happened? Jeremy Rifkin led the charge that any such development would be The Worst Thing Possible, because it would lead to more people since we would be able to make previously uninhabitable areas not only inhabitable, but even comfortable. I expect no less now.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Wasn't there something in that Roswell deathbed confession about a perpetual motion machine?
Did someone at the slashdot story submission approval have a brainfart? Why are they approving bullshit stories like the perpetual motion machines and Roswell? Somebody must feel they have to compete with Digg.
Santorum defined.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
This attitude shows why you will always be single.
Some guy has a web page that says the real value of PI is exactly 3... why don't you splash that up on the front page? ;-)