home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   sci.physics      Physical laws, properties, etc.      178,769 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 177,182 of 178,769   
   Athel Cornish-Bowden to Jim Pennino   
   Re: Radiation   
   26 Feb 25 17:27:16   
   
   From: me@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2025-02-25 21:24:56 +0000, Jim Pennino said:   
      
   > neus  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Out there in space, there are all those energetic particles flying about.   
   >>   
   >> If they could be harnessed and put to work, we would have unlimited power.   
   > The same can be said for lightning and cow farts.   
      
   The same could also be said of all those water molecules in the   
   swimming pool rushing about in Brownian motion. There would just be the   
   little matter of the 2nd law of thermodynamics to overcome, but one of   
   our local geniuses could surely find a way to do that. After all,   
   Arindam Banerjee already knows how to make a perpetual-motion machine.   
      
      
   --   
   Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly   
   in England until 1987.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca