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To: animoveritas
Perpetual motion is possible. All I have to do is have an experimenter spin a flywheel with instructions to his progeny to do the same.

Is this an attempt to wear me down with sustained silliness? You can invent a crappy model, therefore all models are crappy? Is that really your argument?

perpetual motion, n. - The hypothetical continuous operation of an isolated mechanical device or other closed system without a sustaining energy source.

If'n yer always givin' it a push, it ain't operatin' "without a sustaining energy source", right? Therefore, your model does not reflect the critical aspect of the thing you're supposed to be studying, now does it?

214 posted on 02/16/2005 11:59:38 AM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: general_re; animoveritas
Therefore, your model

What model. He has refused several requests to reveal it.

215 posted on 02/16/2005 12:04:34 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: general_re

The sustained silliness my dear General is with your logically flawed assertion that intelligent interdiction in your cited experiment somehow proves there is no intelligent interdiction in reality.


219 posted on 02/16/2005 2:27:35 PM PST by animoveritas (Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.)
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