Can you be really so quick to pass judgement though? Seriously think about this concept for a moment. In my lifetime, which so far has been only 25 years, the one thing that has made my life better has been technology. Not money, or anything else. I've worked hard and made enough to have everything I need to sustain my life and anything I wish to buy, but it has not made my life any better. Money is not weath, just mearly a way to trade for future goods and services. But things like calculators, microwaves etc have made my life better. As I have acquired them, my wealth has increased. I can now think about things I didn't have time to before. Things you can relate to like CAD as opposed to drafting. Has made life easier and more things possible. In my short life so far, I have seen the obsoletion of the home telephone. Dial-up internet is gone. Flexi discs and Apple 2e computers. I remember dos and windows 3.1. Today everyone has a cell phone. You can contact anyone you want, virtually all over. Take one of those back a hundred years, and they would burn you at the stake for witchcraft. I have an 80 dollar camera that will take still images of life as we know it and record them in 14 million pixels, with no film. Is that not amazing? Heck, film was amazing, digital images are a miracle.
We know that every year technology progresses.
Logically thinking then. If we knew everything there was to know about say, electricity, then there would be no forward progress in the next year.(we have no idea what electricity actually is and no one has EVER actually seen an electron)
But since there is forward progress year after year, then we logically can also assume the opposite...that there is things out there in this world that we do not understand.
I brought this up in the off-topic forum, not to cause a stir, but to seek information. Obviously you all are very intelligent and amazing problem solvers to be able to craft metal into shapes and ultimatly engines. I thought perhaps there might have been a few also open minded individuals that has played with these devices.
I built an elbow engine off this site, because when I saw it, it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. It struck me with awe the very first time I saw it, and I knew I had to have one.
To me these mendocino motors look just as amazing.
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I don't believe this man made some sort of magical free energy device
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But what he made does look like a piece of mechanical art, that looks worth studying the principles involved at least a little bit before rushing off to scream conspiracy.
I agree with not having too open of a mind, lest others will insist on coming along and putting things in it. But stepping back and making observations with the knowledge, that I do not know everything about the world around me doesn't seem entirely silly....
Regards,
Eric