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To: Road Walker who wrote (4327)	2/25/2008 1:05:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 16955

When Ashley says <Any attempt to generate power is likely* to impede the movement of the air and create drag.* > "likely" is being assigned a probability of 1, meaning absolutely certain. There were allegedly attempts to invent perpetual motion machines, but mostly people have given up on that. Car manufacturers understand physics and don't try to run their cars by absorbing energy from the pressure of the air coming in the front. You might have heard of scram jets which run by air being rammed in the front which avoids the need for turbne blades to compress the air before combustion. That doesn't provide energy. The energy comes from the fuel which is injected into the air stream. You can't put drag to use by producing more energy. All you can do is reduce it by streamlining. That's for sure: < BWDIK the last thing anyone would call my is an engineer or physicist.> Human ignorance is vast. No wonder we love Google - it's like having a huge brain right there at our fingertips. There is huge evolutionary advantage in having a bigger and better brain. No wonder the Flynn Effect occurs. [See Google for Flynn Effect]. If I could have increased life expectancy or a better brain, I think I'd go with the brain. But both are nice. Humans already live a long time because wasting such a resource as a brain full of information is counterproductive. Mayflies, which don't have big brains, last a day. Viruses don't wait even a day before reproducing - clueless but effective. We wade through our personal fogs of ignorance, hoping that we don't bump into anything too painful or fatal. Mqurice PS: We remain very ignorant because perpetual motion machine can be created, as proven by us being here. The Cosmos is one giant perpetual motion machine. We have no idea how it works. We talk about gravity and stuff, but remain bewildered and certainly can't make perpetual motion machines ourselves - even small ones, let alone big ones like the Cosmos. Entropy and drag are obviously reversible. Don't ask me how.

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