With John's latest design almost complete, a thought hit me. In case he (or anyone else, for that matter) succeeds, and I really do wish it will happen soon, what will you all do next?
I mean, I realize many members of this forum spend a considerable time planning, drawing or building their own wheel designs. Wouldn't you meet a successful design with mixed feelings? Happy the secret is finally revealed but, on the other side, kind of sad the quest is over? Because once it's found, besides replicating the design or trying to improve upon it, there won't be much left to do... As far as I'm concerned, I really enjoy the thinking/dreaming part of it, imagining designs, evaluating them in my mind, visualizing it in motion... Though I'd be thrilled if a working wheel is invented, I guess I would really miss the brain works. You?
Watson
What if it works?
Moderator: scott
re: What if it works?
There are many lifetimes worth of other fascinating things to put your mind to, my dear Watson. And I, for one, would be happy for anyone to solve this puzzle so we can move on.
If you had unlimited energy, you could...
...use some handy form of propulsion, such as ducted fans, to build a hovering coffee table (I like to put my feet up) or a cloud city.
...pull water from the air in a desert, shine light on plants underground and heat greenhouses in the winter to grow abundant food anywhere, anytime.
...clean up pollution without adding to it.
...give more life to an android, ****er.
...obtain oxygen and water on Mars by converting energy into matter and terraform Venus by converting carbon dioxide into plant food.
...build a craft propelled by a reactionless drive and leisurely leave the Earth going slower than escape velocity and then, perhaps, explore the stars going faster than light.
...text your friend in another galaxy on the Entanglenet.
...to name a few. Just stay away from the self-replicating nanites with unlimited power and a bug in their software!
If you had unlimited energy, you could...
...use some handy form of propulsion, such as ducted fans, to build a hovering coffee table (I like to put my feet up) or a cloud city.
...pull water from the air in a desert, shine light on plants underground and heat greenhouses in the winter to grow abundant food anywhere, anytime.
...clean up pollution without adding to it.
...give more life to an android, ****er.
...obtain oxygen and water on Mars by converting energy into matter and terraform Venus by converting carbon dioxide into plant food.
...build a craft propelled by a reactionless drive and leisurely leave the Earth going slower than escape velocity and then, perhaps, explore the stars going faster than light.
...text your friend in another galaxy on the Entanglenet.
...to name a few. Just stay away from the self-replicating nanites with unlimited power and a bug in their software!
Re: What if it works?
I think there are many different potential designs. Bessler used gravity and inertia. One could use magnetism and gravity or magnetism and inertia perhaps. Once the psychological block has been removed by a successful PMM people will come up with all kinds of clever developments.watson wrote:With John's latest design almost complete, a thought hit me. In case he (or anyone else, for that matter) succeeds, and I really do wish it will happen soon, what will you all do next?
I mean, I realize many members of this forum spend a considerable time planning, drawing or building their own wheel designs. Wouldn't you meet a successful design with mixed feelings? Happy the secret is finally revealed but, on the other side, kind of sad the quest is over? Because once it's found, besides replicating the design or trying to improve upon it, there won't be much left to do... As far as I'm concerned, I really enjoy the thinking/dreaming part of it, imagining designs, evaluating them in my mind, visualizing it in motion... Though I'd be thrilled if a working wheel is invented, I guess I would really miss the brain works. You?
Watson
The people on this forum are fortunate in that they have already removed the block to success by believing that Bessler was genuine and not a fraud. Most scientists are not it that happy position.
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?
re: What if it works?
Ed don't forget to build an army of fembots. Or was that part of the android post?
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And the most important one of all. Make all of the greatest Sci-Fi fantasies come true!
Barbarella...oh Barbarella...
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