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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: "Free Energy Machine"
Message-ID: <459@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 17:09:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 17:09:39 1986
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In article <546@utastro.UUCP> bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) writes:
>> In article <1090@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>> >
>> >The source of the energy is the Earth's rotation.  Perhaps we're
>> >lucky that there isn't enough energy available this way to make it
>> >worthwhile; I don't think that I'd accept a 25-hour day as the cost of
>> >"free energy".
>
>Well, you had better get used to the idea, as the Earth's rotation
>is being slowed down naturally.  In 100 million years or so we will
>have a 25-hour day, so get ready :-)

Sleep research indicates that most people, when kept isolated without
external clues such as daylight, will naturally waken and sleep on
approximately a 25-hour cycle.  (This must be why people want more
hours in the day! :-))  So, it looks as though we're already "ready."  

-- 

Michael McNeil
3Com Corporation     "All disclaimers including this one apply"
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	To name the bigger light, and how the less,
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