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Re:How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong wit... by revelation on Sunday August 02, 2015 @03:53PM (#9992155)
You could use this line of reasoning to argument for being charitable to people trying to invent a perpetuum mobile.
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Re:How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong wit... by dang on Sunday August 02, 2015 @03:59PM (#9992174)
No, you would use it to ask if you know enough to be sure that that's really what they're trying to invent.
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