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Quack quack quack.
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
I'll sell you a perpetual motion device at half that price. 
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And I'll sell you a flux capacitor for a tenner?
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LOL, I've seen better photoshop jobs in Nigerian e-mails.
I go chop your dollar!
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If you found a way to produce electricity with out any fuel... why would you sell it on Ebay?
To produce electricity you simply convert energy from one form into electrical energy. One needs a fuel source to supply this energy.
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Newton's law of Thermodynamics state you cannot create nor can you destroy energy you can only change its shape.
Not a hope of that working.
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Hasn't Newton been proven wrong on so many other things? Why just today I was reading a science magazine that looked down on Newtonian physics.
We can hope it works. We just have to hope that Newton's law was wrong. It's not really a law anyways... it's more of a guess at how he thought things probably worked.
Remember, they laughed at the theory of relativity!
Actually, I doubt many people have laughed at the theory of relativity. It's hard to make math funny.
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"Remember, they laughed at the theory of relativity! "
Remember, they laughed at the theory of evolution!
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have you seen what other crap they're selling?!!
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Hasn't Newton been proven wrong on so many other things? Why just today I was reading a science magazine that looked down on Newtonian physics.
thats because of his theories on gravity and anvances in special relativity. I think the laws of thermodynamics still hold some sway.
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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i like how it self destructs if you open it
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That's hilarious!
Pyrowill, I'll take 3 flux capacitors. Do you take paypal?
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Since when did ebay UK have cgi in front on the web address anyway?
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Written by: Patriarch917
Hasn't Newton been proven wrong on so many other things? Why just today I was reading a science magazine that looked down on Newtonian physics.
We can hope it works. We just have to hope that Newton's law was wrong. It's not really a law anyways... it's more of a guess at how he thought things probably worked.
Remember, they laughed at the theory of relativity!
Actually, I doubt many people have laughed at the theory of relativity. It's hard to make math funny.
Okay considering when the principa mathematica was written Newton was ahead of his time. In fact most of his equations and systems describing the movements are still used to help predict future positions of objects in the solar system now. Today it is only when you start to count on larger sections of the cosmos that Newtons theory of the movement of the stellar objects starts to show cracks. Newton wasn't wrong in fact he was more right than anyone before or after him till Einstein, who with his theory of general relativity started to fill the gaps in Newtons work.
The laws of thermodynamics hold out till now and so far are still the most valid description of energy movement and production in the universe. You cannot create or destroy energy you can only change its shape and in any energy transformation you lose a certain amount of energy in the form of heat. The examples are all over the world and universe.
You don't get something for nothing. Thats why the ideas of perpetual motion machine makes me laugh.
But you ever find one that work you let me know.
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hehe... that's hilarious...
especially- https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40967&item=9521259824
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i think i mite put my cold fusion bomb device on ebay too
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Since when did ebay UK have cgi in front on the web address anyway?
For as long as I've been using them. I'm not sure how exactly the web site works, but the cgi subdomain has been there for a long time. they have a few of them actually, there is a cgi6.ebay.com subdomain linked to in the "other items" page. This is not a phishing site at all - they would have some thing before the .com and after the ebay.
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I've done no research or put much thought into this, but i'd like to throw it out there at the risk of it getting shot down.
its said that you cant create something from nothing, but then how can one cell split and becomes two cells? i know this is effectively spiltting one thing in two, so how can the other two halves appear to make two wholes?
theres probably a really simple explanation that u'm just not seeing here.help anyone?
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Cells are made up of many, many molecules and when they divide the number of molecules is still divided in two, but the cells have developed their own nucleus etc. If they're to grow and divide again, they'll need food.
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of course *slaps self*.
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LOL
love the way that the machine changes shape when photographed from different angles- pipes appearing / vanishing, dials bending / twistng etc.
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Squarefish, it's a six-dimentional machine. that's how it works.
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This particular machine may not work at producing electricity the way the site claims. It is perfectly possible to create an electricity generator that creates elevctricity without using any external fuel sources and uses heat transfer (in parts) to its advantage. And there is nothing Newton, Einstien or anyone else for that matter has writen that contradicts it. Although Newton's work actually supports it.
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The fact a motor powers a generator and that generator powers the motor... very clever... yes yes...
But how'd you get it started without "external fuel sources"...
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mice on wheels, Asena. Mice on wheels.
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O dear god... you might be onto something!... sell it on eBay
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You would never be able to make something that was 100% efficient, it would always make noise/heat and therefore lose energy (well, it's transfered to something else...). Plus, what use would a machine that used all it's power to run itself be?
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reliable?
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