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From: derek@uwvax.UUCP (Derek Zahn)
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Subject: Re: perpetual motion
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 12:12:17 EST
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> ...The conservation of momentum is so fundamental (and easy to verify) that 
> even most laymen believe it....

Wow.  Thanx for the vote of confidence :-).

> Unfortunately, most of the public doesn't know about this implication.
> Thus these "inventors" are trying to devise a machine which would break a
> law of physics which *they themselves* accept, although they don't know it.

Well, I was more under the impression that most so-called Perpetual Motion
Machines were never really that -- but rather got their energy from the
Earth's rotation and things like that.

As for vacuum PMM's, go out between the galaxies somewhere and spin a 
frisbee inside a perfectly evacuated box.

> "No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the
> interests of the right of nations to self-determination." -Lenin, 1918

Phooey.

-- 
Derek Zahn @ wisconsin
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