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To: Brumar89 who wrote (9865)11/13/2010 6:37:56 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
Urf. My failure to be clear. By gas turbine I meant a fuel-burning one, like the Whittle engine.
Gas turbines going back 2000 years? Surely you don't mean Hero's aeolipile. That was not a turbine. No blades. Imo...



To: Brumar89 who wrote (9865)11/14/2010 5:28:10 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 69300
 
"Maybe rapid technological development requires a particular type of society and economy to happen. I hope we're not structuring our society in such a way that we slow down things."

That's funny coming from a Tea Bagger......a drill baby drill, anti-education, anti-intellectual advocate who thinks Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell are brilliant......


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