BesslerWheel.com

I rarely post anymore, but this was definitely worth mentioning. Just recently an etching we are all familiar with sold on Ebay for $69. It looks like it might have been original. I suspect that someone here either sold it or bought it. It's just not something you see everyday. I'm curious as to whe...

"NASA's New 'EM Drive' defies the laws of physics."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberl ... 9c0e2376e2

Finally some good ammunition to throw back at the skeptics.

I only used 'jeopardy' and chess as examples of what could be done if a major corporation would see fit to invest the same resources in a goal thats actually worthwhile. Spending millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to play chess seems like a waste (compared to this).

Good point. I would start by feeding it all the mechanisms and wheel configurations found in MT, then let it arrange them until it (hopefully) hits on a winner. But thats only one starting point. Nothing about it would be easy.

My suggestion is this: "If IBM can program a computer specifically to beat the best 'Jeopardy' players, or beat Gary Kasparov at chess, why couldn't someone program a computer to find a solution to Bessler's wheel?" A fast computer could probably model thousands of possibilities in seconds...

The same to you and everyone here. Hopefully this will be the year that someone, somewhere is able to make a breakthrough.

That makes sense Daanopperman, but how does Besslers work? It clearly has the winding hole like the others, I'm wondering if the middle section spins where the drawn lines are? I went to the online copy of MT and the equal amount of bleed-through to the back side of the page suggests that the 'top' ...

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Couldn't figure out how to post multiple pics.

Sorry to bring an old post back to the top, but I didn't want to post a new topic to much discussed subject. I was always interested in the motivation behind the hand drawn 'tippe-top' and thought I would try to post some relevant pictures here. These pictures were fairly difficult to find, and the ...

I'm curious as to what other members think about the Apologia wheel. When you consider how long it takes to do an engraving like that, I really think that it must carry some significance. It could be a decoding wheel as some have suggested in the past, it could be a representation of the wheel's int...

Thank you for converting that.

I found that Bessler has been included in a biography of famous Germans printed between 1875 and 1912. Unfortunately I can't read German, but thought I would provide the information anyway. Maybe someone else can. It would be interesting to see what his own people thought of him. Allgemeine Deutsche...

It's RAR energia ltd. all over again. This character just didn't bother with the fancy website, pictures, press release, or actual build in two different countries. Even 'Steorn' managed a few TV interviews and had a decent website. This guy just dropped a hook that doesn't even have bait on it.* *I...

Sorry about your friend Alan.