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From: ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc,net.research
Subject: Re: Joseph Newman's Energy Machine
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Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 19:36:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 13 19:36:05 1985
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Keywords: jokes, fraud, perpetual motion machines
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In article <173@tulane.UUCP> kpc@tulane.UUCP (Kevin Centanni) writes:
>     Today, I had the oppurnity to attend the first public showing of the
>Energy Machine of Joseph Newman.  For those of you not familiar with Mr.
>Newman and his "energy machine":  It seems that a man from a place called
>Lucedale, Mississippi has invented a motor that has a production efficiency
>of over 800% (yes, that is correct, eight hundred percent).  Somehow, this
>rather small (less than 2 feet high and 1 foot wide) device consisting of
>over 200 pounds of copper wire can put out more external energy than the
>amount of external energy put into it.  
> ... 
>     It seems that since March 22, 1979 Mr. Newman has been trying to obtain
>a patent for the U.S. Patent Office; but they have refused on what seems to
>be "arbitrary, capricious, and contradictory treatment" of Mr. Newman and
>his invention.  

  Actually I am sure that the Patent Office has seen patents for machines
  like Mr. Newman's before.

>
>                                  Kevin P. Centanni
>                                  Dept. of Computer Science
>                                  Tulane University
>

    There seem to be three possible reasons for posting this note to
    the net:

      1. Mr. Centanni is pulling our collective legs.

      2. He bet a friend that the people on the net are highly gullable
	 and he posted this as a test case.

      3. Mr. Centanni is totally ignorant of the laws of physics and 
	 actually believes that the Energy Machine is possible.  If this is
	 the case I recommend that Mr. Centanni sit in on some physics
	 classes.  Knowledge of computer science is no excuss for ignorance
	 in other areas.

    If this is not a joke, then I would ask Mr. Centanni if the purpose
    of Mr. Newman's demonstration was to raise money for this invention
    that was sure to sweep the world.  Perpetual motion machines and Ponzi
    schemes are old but they never seem to fail to gull people.

		     Ian Kaplan
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