The guy claims this is 'perpetual motion', or is it a hoax? I think the liquid is magnetic and there are magnets at the corners.....maybe.... phil k.
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OT: How does this thing work?
Feb 19, 2011
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Are you sure that you got the link right?
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Dave
Oh oh, that was wrong! Try this one instead:
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Dave
Heh heh, an origami thing eih? Had me going ........:>(( phil
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I vote for hoax, but very nicely done
That link is to The Initiative. Two demerits, Phil.
-- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson
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I vote for Escher. He's not a hoax.
Duh... this one was so obvious to be silly.
LLoyd
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Ignoramus9508 Inscribed thus:
Optical illusion !
Ooohhh maaan, I hope the statistics guy doesn't start tracking demerits now! .... ;>)) phil, the geezer with a cane and a buick...
(Wes, nix the stats on demerits. Anyone with a buick would tally up too many too fast.)
Well, a sword cane or cane defense classes would negate 'em. Gunner recommends these guys:
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-- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson
The fellow has done other CGI animation. There is no way that I know of that physics allows what he showed...
Thanks Larry... anyone wanna buy a buick? Dirt cheap, now...;>)) phil k.
I'll bet it comes with gently used Firestone tires, too!
-- The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. -- Charlotte-Catherine
Yup, winterforce on all four! But I do have a heavy foot..;>)) phil
Analysis and explanation:
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And the diagram:
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A perpetual motion machine is lossless, like the theoretical stimulation by Keynesian economics.
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