http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-69472 Wed, 25 May 2011 10:29:04 +0000 Rowly 69472@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Update, Alpha Omega Device<br /> Pete Accepted the £2k on offer, he had to pay his rent!<br /> The guy had the cheek to come back later &amp; try to get some more parts made for it.<br /> He had an immediate practical lesson in fundamental Gravity,<br /> I believe he landed on his arse.<br /> Perhaps the extra parts were to attach shoes to the device, I knew I had seen something like it in a shoe or carpet shop window.<br /> Or maybe it was for that Bank Ad on TV.<br /> As a footnote, Most of us know you cant get something for nothing in Physics, But I was intrigued to find out the root of this gentleman's Confabulation.<br /> I had to revise my Maths, it turns out, the answer is do do with Moments of inertia of Parallel Axis. I posted a note on the Vid, to this effect, adding that I wished him luck fixing his washing machine. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-69283 Tue, 24 May 2011 10:30:39 +0000 beau-jolly 69283@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not funny but... A perpetual motion apperatus is theoretically possible if there is no friction or resistance. A perpetual motion machine is not. As soon as you try to take more work out than you put in you break the laws of physics and will be arrested by policemen with wild hair and pens in their top pocket. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-69257 Tue, 24 May 2011 00:04:27 +0000 bonjonelson 69257@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, not sure about the Post Office, but British Rail in 1970 patented a design for a flying saucer powered by nuclear fusion.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_flying_saucer" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_flying_saucer</a></p> <p>Sadly they didn't patent the design for a train that runs in 2 inches of snow. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-69252 Mon, 23 May 2011 23:23:10 +0000 Titus 69252@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How come this thing weighs 200Kg if it's an anti-gravity machine?</p> <p>I suspect that a successful anti-gravity machine has already been invneted, but that patent was bought up by the postal authorities and the idea suppressed because they realised that it could bankrupt them if everyone started posting weightless parcels.</p> <p>(Conspiracy theorist? Moi?) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68952 Fri, 20 May 2011 21:53:52 +0000 waylandsmithy 68952@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Heretic. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68899 Fri, 20 May 2011 13:14:16 +0000 bonjonelson 68899@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just because it's on the BBC website doesn't mean it's right. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68888 Fri, 20 May 2011 11:14:36 +0000 waylandsmithy 68888@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Blimey, meat trifles already exist. Sounds delicious.</p> <p>A recipe for rabbit trifle, and rabbit lollipops:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rabbitpeaandblackoli_88473" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rabbitpeaandblackoli_88473</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68823 Thu, 19 May 2011 21:11:20 +0000 be reasonable 68823@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Down here in Cambridge, we only eat Eton trifles, with jam. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68818 Thu, 19 May 2011 20:11:37 +0000 waylandsmithy 68818@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Meat trifle currently only exists in theoretical form, but I intend to develop the concept. Not sure whether to use chocolate sprinkles or hundreds-and-thousands, though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68815 Thu, 19 May 2011 19:40:27 +0000 shitsu_tonka 68815@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I hope meat trifle is fictional. Oh wait, it's not some disgusting thing that only Northerners eat, is it? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68814 Thu, 19 May 2011 19:32:17 +0000 Al OPecia 68814@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mincemeat, pies, pudding, and rack of limb. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68811 Thu, 19 May 2011 18:50:36 +0000 waylandsmithy 68811@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How about: there's no 'i' in meat, except for chicken, venison, liver, ribs and meat trifle. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68806 Thu, 19 May 2011 18:31:08 +0000 be reasonable 68806@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tame. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68800 Thu, 19 May 2011 17:38:28 +0000 rikkor 68800@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Am et. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68775 Thu, 19 May 2011 14:01:12 +0000 waylandsmithy 68775@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>and a 'meat', too. I'm not aware of the significance, though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68768 Thu, 19 May 2011 13:31:33 +0000 rikkor 68768@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's no I in team, but there is a me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68767 Thu, 19 May 2011 13:28:38 +0000 ronseal 68767@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's no I in team.</p> <p>But there's a U in cant.</p> <p>(Hang on, got the spelling wrong) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68760 Thu, 19 May 2011 13:08:58 +0000 rikkor 68760@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If it's humo(u)r, it's labo(u)red. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68644 Thu, 19 May 2011 05:54:40 +0000 ronseal 68644@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rikkor,</p> <p>This is British humour. (You probably spell it humor)</p> <p>It's way too sophisticated for you. (May contain irony) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68639 Thu, 19 May 2011 05:17:09 +0000 Jeremy Hunt 68639@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Welcome to the club Rowly. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68636 Wed, 18 May 2011 23:14:54 +0000 rikkor 68636@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>God. This makes me want the spam posts to return. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=25269#post-68591 Wed, 18 May 2011 17:20:43 +0000 Rowly 68591@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Today, I went round to see my mate Pete P the engineer, to get a few mm machined off some aluminium packing blocks.<br /> Pete is a great guy &amp; a good engineer, but there is always a “situation” going on.<br /> Today he was Fulminating about having been bumped for £6k for a rush job that he had done which was on the floor of the workshop.<br /> I had noticed, on the way in, this large curious looking device, it seemed to consist of 2 large steel discs with 4 smaller eccentrically mounted discs mounted between, attached to a planetary gear arrangement with lots of cogs on the outside.<br /> I could not determine by observation, the function of the device, so eventually I said to Pete “Is this customer an inventor” Yes he said “it is an Alpha Omega Gravity Motor”<br /> Apparently, the said inventor placed the order urgently &amp; then had called in with several of his “financial backers” &amp; offered £2k, which was well below Pete’s costs. So Pete threw them out……<br /> I had to bite my lip, not wishing to express mirth at the …er… Gravity of the situation.<br /> Eventually I got out of Pete, that a Guy in Wells, Somerset had built a prototype of the AOGM (or should it be OMG) from some bits of an old washing machine. So I googled it &amp; sure enough, the papers had been full of it, There is a link to the prototype on youtube<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZRfM0M4wcw&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZRfM0M4wcw&amp;feature=related</a>.<br /> It is so funny, there is not even a Narrative, apparently this guy has even tried to convince engineers at the patent office that this mad scheme has validity.<br /> They would have had to admit to its originality, but when it came to the “claims” part, perhaps they said that “Albert, who used to check these things, has sadly expired”.<br /> I also looked at related videos, there are loads. So many cranks around.<br /> There was one, which appeared to work, of spinning ball bearings mounted in an elegant wooden frame. I couldn’t help but post the comment that “indeed it looks a miracle, but was a certain person from Nazareth involved with the carpentry?”<br /> I am not knocking inventors; indeed I am always doing things in the shed myself.<br /> I can recently lay claim to my “Acme” telescopic weed sprayer for the back of the Quad bike. Or the Mark 3 ground levelling device to fit on my mini tractor.<br /> (My wife makes Transfer labels to stick on things for me).<br /> Sometimes, things I make, might be useful to others, like my bumpsteer Laser checking device which has been popular on youtube. Other things are best forgotten.<br /> The only value in Cranky ideas like AOGM is in their humour.<br /> It is a pity my mate Pete has had to come down to earth with a bump. (Again)<br /> I suggested to him, he put it on eBay, to recover some of his costs. But how would you describe it?<br /> Antigravity Device…. Never used, or only used once, still running.<br /> Collect only, weighs 200kg.<br /> Checkout the video &amp; related ones &amp; enjoy.</p> <p>Rowly </p>