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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Magic Engine???  Probably not.
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 08:31:20 EDT
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( This is a followup to all that junk about machines with 
efficiency >>1 )
There was a show on PBS a couple years ago, NOVA or SCIENCE, or something,
which spent a delightful half hour with an admitted liar. This gent
spends his time building perpetual motion machines, which he puts in a room,
turns on, and says:
	" THis is a fake perpetual motion machine. You may measure it with
any instrument you like, but you may not touch it, disassemble it, or 
stop it. Try to find out what really makes it go."
	The TV show had teams of MIT or some tech school students go at it
with marginal success. 
My point is : it's much harder to find the fakery than it is to create it.



        Darwin's Dad (Carl Witthoft)
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