From: nospam@buzz.off   
      
   On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:48:13 -0400, the following appeared   
   in talk.origins, posted by WolfFan :   
      
   >On Aug 18, 2025, James Nicoll wrote   
   >(in article <107ve2g$1qs$1@reader1.panix.com>):   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Has Norman Lorimer Dean come back from the dead?   
   >   
   >I already mentioned the Dean Drive. This boy’s stuff is much better than   
   >the Dean Drive, it’s a perpetual motion machine of the second type.   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion   
   >   
   >Alas, he cannot demonstrate anything. He can’t lift one kilo to an altitude   
   >of one meter and sustain it for one minute. Hey, he can’t lift a gram to a   
   >centimeter for 1 second. He has, according to his own stuff, been working at   
   >this since 1998, possibly earlier, with no results. Apparenntly he uses   
   >magnets in some fashion; I am reminded of the Magnetic Space Coupe in 1960s   
   >Dick Tracy comic strips.   
   >   
   >https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Space_Coupe   
   >   
   >Gotta love it.   
   >   
   Well, with 2-way wrist radios (and now TVs), also made   
   famous by Dick Tracy, can Magnetic Space Coupes be far   
   behind? ;-)   
   >   
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