motion

I just saw this on DIGG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvZJ9xGutI Enjoy :)

Would a perpetual motion machine be disqualified by the fact that the sun will someday go supernova then become a black hole causing the machine to be destroyed? Would a perpetual motion machine be disqualified because the earth will one day fall out of orbit and crash into the sun? Would a...

I have a couple of reasons for starting this thread. One is to ask for suggestions for a protocol for a perpetual motion machine (pmm). Another is to state unequivocally that I don't have a physical model of a pmm. I've been accused of saying I did so I'd like to clear that matter up. In...

Where required take g=9.8ms-2 7)A post of mass 3kg is pushed downwards by a force 300 N and experiences resisting forces of 325N form the ground. Find the accelration of the post. Heres how i tried to work it out. using f=ma 300+9.8=309.8 325-309.8=3xa 15.2=3 x a 15.2/3=a a=5.06ms-2 wrong...

CT is Conspiracy Theorists, by the way I admit I'm way out of school and the part of my brain that housed this information (whatever of it there ever was) has long been archived and replaced by newer stuff :) Check out this thread and help me understand what slick is trying to say...

One of the books the wife gave me for Xmas was a reprint of Gardner D. Hiscox's "970 Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction" first published in 1904. Basically an encyclopedia of machines and mechanics, beautiful drawings. Anyroad, he included a chapter on perpetual motion which is...

I was wondering just how one would go about testing for a claim perporting to have invented a perpetual motion machine. Any ideas?? HTC.

I am one of the biggest bashers of Kofi Annan. I think he is a two-faced slimeball. It's nice to see others do to. UN staff to vote on no-confidence motion against Annan - Fri Nov 19, 1:16 PM ET But true to form the UN even weasles out of that reponsibility. UN staff blast officials, spare...

A study that might be if interest Efficacy of acupressure and acustimulation bands for the prevention of motion sickness. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15018290

Not sure if this belongs here or in humor but it's worth watching. http://blade.rit.edu/Perpetual_Motion.asx

Magic Motion: How Nothing Propels Things Unlike hard-working humans on Earth, objects in space may be able to get something from nothing, propelling themselves through the universe with the inherent energy of emptiness. While such motion has not been observed directly it is theoretically...

Drill a hole through the earth right through the core from one side to the other. Throw something down the hole. Whatdayaget!?! simple harmonic motion! Kaching! $1million please! :D

Ran across this over on Metafilter . Apparently someone's trying to sell a perpetual motion machine on Ebay. Actually, unless I'm reading it wrong it looks like someone bought 2 of them. Yikes! Anyway, take a look for yourself: Ebay Item # 3001165002 BrotherB