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To: camle
Oh, I agree with you. Why, do you know that some crackpot actually stated that man would someday be able to talk across the oceans using radio waves? And another crackpot claimed that men would fly!

We have to be grounded in reality and I am so happy to see that you are helping us maintain a solid, traditional perspective! After all, if it hasn't already been done, and it hasn't be stated in the Bible, then it can never be done!

14 posted on 03/14/2007 5:06:03 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Heaven is home...I am just TDY here!)
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To: Redleg Duke

actually, long range wireless communication IS in the bible - the Ark of the covenant, as is flying men - Ezekiel's wheel withint the wheel...

but if you beleieve this is such a great deal, why not put a little of your cash into it - he's looking for investors!;-)


17 posted on 03/14/2007 5:14:45 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Redleg Duke

But just in case it can be done, best to stick on red skateboard wheels, gears and odd-shaped plastic bits to make it look impressive.


18 posted on 03/14/2007 5:14:54 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: Redleg Duke
Oh, I agree with you. Why, do you know that some crackpot actually stated that man would someday be able to talk across the oceans using radio waves? And another crackpot claimed that men would fly!

And the Royal Society declaimed that an incandescent light bulb was an impossibility, and numerous doctors predicted that above the speed of a horse, Life would cease because breathing would not be possible.

Technically, men do not fly. Their machines do.

Men cannot fly, because, like the bumblebee, the weight and drag exceed lift and power.

Oh wait...

19 posted on 03/14/2007 5:15:14 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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To: Redleg Duke

A dear friend, retired stationary engineer of some reknown, at 83 designed a plastic box with tubes in it that he said could generate more pressure than was used to start it. He frightened himself with the only test when it nearly exploded.
Some of these geezers understand things in a way that the rest of us do not. The problem seems to be that they lose the ability to communicate with the rest of us unable to keep up.
I have no doubt but that all of these principles - antigravity, expanding energy, space warp travel, et al - will become daily principles when we are able to wrap our brains around a world that includes them. Until then, we are trapped in a mind set that says a resounding "NO!" to all such possibilities.


33 posted on 03/14/2007 6:05:40 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (here come I, gravitas in tow.)
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To: Redleg Duke

"Why, do you know that some crackpot actually stated that man would someday be able to talk across the oceans using radio waves? And another crackpot claimed that men would fly!"

Neither of which required breaking any of the laws of physics or thermodynamics known at the time. It was just a question of actually inventing the technology to do it.


37 posted on 03/14/2007 6:13:29 AM PDT by -YYZ-
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To: Redleg Duke
Oh, I agree with you. Why, do you know that some crackpot actually stated that man would someday be able to talk across the oceans using radio waves? And another crackpot claimed that men would fly!

You don't get it. He says that he has done it. Maybe people can be wrong but by now money would have found his perpetual motion machine regardless of the skeptics.

40 posted on 03/14/2007 7:26:01 AM PDT by bkepley
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