Rogue Keeper on 6/9/2006 at 09:54
internet :cool:
ercles on 6/9/2006 at 13:41
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
No, this has TIMECUBE written all over it! I told you guys TIMECUBE was legit!
Oh god, I thought that awful placed was gone....
Agent Monkeysee on 6/9/2006 at 15:05
This isn't even a debate. If there was *any* credible evidence that this machine worked at higher than carnot efficiency the entire scientific community would be mobbing all over each other to publish the findings. It would literally reverse virtually every single physical principle known to humankind.
Not to mention solve all our problems and give us all massive penises.
d0om on 6/9/2006 at 15:43
Is anyone else tempted to fill in the form to be chosen to test it?
I remember someone a long time ago made a "infinite energy clock" which used a bag which expanded and contracted by the changes in air pressure to power it.
I imagine this (if it works at all) uses some similar method.
Nicker on 6/9/2006 at 19:53
Energy from nowhere smacks of scam but I will wait and see if anything comes of it. While this would break all the rules that objection alone always puts me in mind of the classic "rocks don't fall from the sky" refutation of meteors. The fact that rocks actually do fall from the sky, or that jupiter has moons, did not prevent the scientific authorities of their day refusing to even consider the evidence.
Schattentänzer on 6/9/2006 at 20:29
Well, energy from nowhere would whop physic's ass. Energy from somewhere (but we don't know exactly where) is something different. If they found some way to channel energy from a source yet unknown to us with that thing, it would be possible (And that's their argument, actually).
Just to be clear, I don't think this thing works like it's said it does. I was just trying to say that the discovery of something like that wouldn't be so nice, because we'd probably use it to blow ourselves up.
Mortal Monkey on 6/9/2006 at 20:31
Quote Posted by Agent Monkeysee
Not to mention solve all our problems and give us all massive penises.
The problem with the Tesla coil is as with lightening - it produces such a lot of energy that even the best regulators can't handle it. Your penis would simply explode.
Nicker on 6/9/2006 at 21:04
Quote Posted by Schattentänzer
Well, energy from
nowhere would whop physic's ass. Energy from
somewhere (but we don't know exactly where) is something different. If they found some way to channel energy from a source yet unknown to us with that thing, it would be possible (And that's their argument, actually).
Just to be clear, I don't think this thing works like it's said it does. I was just trying to say that the discovery of something like that wouldn't be so nice, because we'd probably use it to blow ourselves up.
I was being a bit flip about that - the energy would have to come from somewhere but that somewhere is pretty vague in this case.
Apart from powering conventional or fanciful weapon systems, a machine that can output more energy than is put in to it (rather than simply converting one form to another) might be weaponised by creating a feedback loop. Of course the device would have to remain in a cohesive state long enough to accumulate sufficient force to create an explosion.
Phaser on overload!
Mortal Monkey on 7/9/2006 at 00:16
Problem is that the device would likely only operate at a certain voltage/amperage, thus you could not create a feedback loop.
