Forum Archive Index - May 2000

[Richard Scott <richard@tkf.att.ne.jp>]

Tremendous reply Nigel. Most entertaining.

Ril's mate.


>Mike Nelson wrote:
>> http://www.inertialessdrive.co.nz/
>
>Woo-hoo! <wipes tears of laughter from face> Cheers for that link.
>
>Ah, the inertialess drive, that wonderful bit of nonsense which powered
>the ships of the Galactic Patrol in the "Lensman" novels of E.E. "Doc"
>Smith!
>
>Of course, the "Doc" could get away with it because a) his Ph.D. was in
>food science, not physics, and b) plausibility was never that important
>for the "sensawunder" school of early science fiction and the Doc's habit
>of periodically jumping things up another order of magnitude in scale,
>and c) he didn't bother with the details.
>
>> What do you people make of this company?
>
>The authors of the website either have a delicious sense of humour, or they
>have a keen nose for human gullibilty.
>
>> Has anyone heard of it before ?
>
>No. But then, that's hardly surprising, since it's another way of dressing
>up the concept of perpetual motion.
>
>Seen a perpetual motion machine in action lately?
>
>> Are there any technical types out there who can get a grip of this
>> technology ?
>
>I'd say that anyone who claimed to _understand_ this nonsense had lost
>their grip :-). Remember the old U.S. patent office policy of requiring a
>working model of an invention, *particularly* for perpetual motion machines.
>Despite that a few cranks have still managed to slip the idea past patent
>examiners over the years, a tribute to the enduring attraction of the idea.
>
>> If it does all the things the webpage claims then it is a potential multi
>> billion dollar operation I would think. What do you think ?
>
>It's funny, but not very creative. I give then full marks for trying.
>
>Mind you, I've had the delight of a first-hand view of people trying to
>sell the idea of "recursive" data compression to an investor. The proof
>of impossibility for *that* is simple enough, but those people seemed
>quite earnest too, although it was hard to keep a straight face at some
>points in the presentation.
>
>All that said, perhaps some of the products may or may not do *something*.
>But inertialessness is the stuff of fantasy and will alas always remain so.
>
>
>
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