kscott@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Kevin Scott%Kuntz) (10/20/85)
Does anyone out there know where the inventor lives? After reading all these articles about suckers, frauds, physics, and patents, it would be nice if someone on the net could let him use a terminal to read and address all these comments. I personally have followed this discussion with great interest. While I personally believe the evidence is against the existence of such a machine (strongest fact against it: Why can't the machine be hooked up to itself until it melts into a slag or loses a demonstrative amount of mass? Not that a melted slag would prove anything other than the machine should not be hooked up to itself) I will hope for (not invest in) it to be a mass energy converter. Who were the scientists who have checked the machine out? I imagine that having a nobel laureate check it out and support it would spark the interest of the government and investors. Has the machine's inspection been limited to only those scientists who can be duped? Time is against this machine. THe longer it goes without support from the scientific community (I want to read about how it works in science or nature, not read about what the press thinks in Omni or Science Digest) the more likely it is that the public will dismiss it as a fraud. It should be investigated and patented or exposed quickly, the fact that it has gone on so long as a topic of controversy supports the notion, in my opnion, that a fraud is being hidden while used to glean notoriety and money. One last and important thing: Does this machine have potential as a weapon? Could a terrorist hook this thing up to a big block of copper, pull out whatever regulators there are, and ... If so, as an inventor I would give up on the notion of trying to offer the device to humanity while keeping the workings a secret. I would destroy all models of the device quickly and hope no one else stumbles across the design. The last thing we need is the existence of a new, easy to build weapon. -- two to the power of five thousand against and falling ...