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Re: Irish Scientist Throws Down Gauntlet on Perpetual Motion Claim [Re: Xanthas]
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He doesn't need 'large scale production'. All he needs is one working prototype, and the world will be forever changed.

That he can't manage that even after decades of trying is a dead giveaway. That people are throwing money at him is depressing evidence of the sorry state of science education.


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Re: Irish Scientist Throws Down Gauntlet on Perpetual Motion Claim [Re: Diploid]
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> That people are throwing money at him is depressing evidence of the sorry state of science education.

I've always said the same thing about people that spend money to play the lottery. The world is full of gullable people and the world is full of con artists ready to take advantage of gullable people. It is sad.


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Re: Irish Scientist Throws Down Gauntlet on Perpetual Motion Claim [Re: Seuss]
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I think its a little different. When you play a reputable lottery, like one run by the Gov't here in the States, you know SOMEONE is going to win. Granted, the odds that it will be someone other than you so high as to be near certainty, but there will be a winner.

This guys scientific claims are just completely bogus. Nobody will win except him, and that doesnt count.


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Re: Irish Scientist Throws Down Gauntlet on Perpetual Motion Claim [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Actuarially, that one dollar you spend on the lottery is the most horrible investment in the history of investing. You'd be better off buying swampland and hoping for a drought.  :smirk:

People make bad decisions like buying a lottery ticket all the time because they don't understand that they're all but tossing the money in the trash. Actuaries and mathematicians sometimes call the lottery a tax for dumb people.

Think of it this way: betting $1 against 15 million to 1 odds, is the same as betting $1000 against 15 billion to 1 odds, but it pays 1000 times what the first bet pays if you win. Actuarially, they are the same bet.

Would you take the $1000 bet? Probably not, because in the second case, the actuarial absurdity of the bet is pretty obvious, but in the first bet it's not.

Learn to find the truth behind the factors that should govern decisions and it will serve you well in life.


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1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Irish Scientist Throws Down Gauntlet on Perpetual Motion Claim [Re: Diploid]
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Like I said, the odds of you winning are so low as to make it a near certainty that you will lose.

But someone WILL win.

I'm not saying its a good investment. I'm just saying that its different from this mad scientists claim, because nobody will benefit from throwing money at him.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Irish Scientist Throws Down Gauntlet on Perpetual Motion Claim [Re: Gijith]
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I only had to read the first two words of the thread title to know that this was obviously bullshit. Trixy little leprechaun scientists! :lol:


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