Thermodynamics is Hard
But it's Easy compared with an infinite number of Disneyland fantasies which -inevitably- are seen to [÷ by 0] after a few steps of obfuscation/complexification Â
or perhaps the [secret/patent-pending] Turbo-encabulator injection of phlogiston. If this stuff worked, why Next you'd have otherwise sane people imagining there can be such a thing as a Free Market® [oblig. cha.cha.cha.], pixies, (And even believing that such a thing could be imagined as a Â
Compassionate Conservative® -- read -Reactionary.)
Sorry, Charlie.. Starkist doesn't want educated tuna with good taste; it wants tuna that tastes good (the Second Law of Consumer Massage.)
(Yeah, as a tyke I did send off my dime for the magic tiny device you could put in your mouth et Viola! You Be a Ventriloquist!
It was a cheap lesson about Marketers, since borne out by every-single-One of the sleazy bastards, in their Armanis or naked in their reptile skin. Still, at age 7ish, I Should have known better.)
At least the Jack Armstrong Tru-Flite model airplanes of WW-II -- Two for a Wheaties box top-and-a-nickel: once cut out of the heavy paper-stock and glued together with a penny in the nose -- actually flew! (very Well.)
~25 years later, General Mills cleaned out a stockroom of these truly Art-ful creations, most in original still-sealed brown envelopes as-shipped to millions of us tykes; I wrote GM a note extolling their perspicuity in the first place and benevolence in not simply trashing the suckers; asked if there were any odd-lots which I might also salvage(?) to preserve.
Beneficently, some Worthy there sent me a packet of a dozen plus. I still have several unassembled ones. When eBay price hits $100 in inflated US Banana Republic scrip, maybe I'll flog a few. I have even the pukka == preferred 1943 zinc penny for that magic-ballast which makes Your Spitfire fly higher than the competition's pedestrian-copper version. :-0
TANSTAAFL
(think, re. the 14.7 Ratio: that stoichiometry koan -- it's not just for breakfast any more..)
Why are people Always imagining to GET: something for Nothing? Even after the first 100 tries.
