Perpetual Devices, a possibility?

[handsoff241]

---

even living things that regenerates by itself cannot survive perpetuity.

[prukutung]

perpetual actually has no end.......


kung makaInvent mu ug intuitive robot nga makaLearn saon pag
fix iyang self ug makaMass produce sa iya kaugalingon..

then maybe that's perpetual... ^^

[rodsky]

I thought perpetual devices or machines are mechanical things that reproduces itself. Diba nindot? But from your discussions it's possible to make such things that could last 100 years or more.

I think all of you know that it takes thousands of years for plastic to biodegrade. Diba perpetual na?...heheheh...

Perpetual means forever. A thousand years is definitely NOT forever.

-RODION

[randzg]

well, the only invention or discovery i know that is perpetual is time. Not an object that we can touch, though..

[prukutung]

time is neither a discovery nor invention.....

[sizz-lorr]

this devices kanang dli maguba, kung maguba gani, it would last at least 50 yrs, i have heard naay mga inventors sa USA, if this people would invent devices, n the government found dat this would affect d economy, they would buy it out n dli na sya ioffer sa public.

ambot lng kung tinuod, naa daw flourescent lamp dat would last for 50 yrs, i dont no if its true, the government bought the innovation kay it wil destroy d ecomony.

hmmmmm, some things last 50 years or so.....

start using it after 30-40 years later. it will last 50 years.

[herp_doctor]

Nothing lasts forever... Therefore nothing IS perpetual...

Not even light, time or energy...

Perpetual is ABSOLUTE. Nothing is ABSOLUTE.

[cptn_star]

"the only constant thing is CHANGE"

[diehard96]

this devices kanang dli maguba, kung maguba gani, it would last at least 50 yrs, i have heard naay mga inventors sa USA, if this people would invent devices, n the government found dat this would affect d economy, they would buy it out n dli na sya ioffer sa public.

ambot lng kung tinuod, naa daw flourescent lamp dat would last for 50 yrs, i dont no if its true, the government bought the innovation kay it wil destroy d ecomony.

nice idea, but we are in the age of disposable economy and consumerist values.

besides, everything will eventually deteriorate. and with rapid technological changes, something becomes obsolete even before it totally deteriorates. example, until now naa pay mga floppy disks nga pwede pa unta magamit, pero impractical na gamiton kay mas convenient ang usb drives etc.

tinuod naay mga secret technologies ang us gov't. some things we commonly use today were once used exclusively for the us defense agencies. i wouldn't bother whining about that.

[vanschen]

Since there is no such thing as zero friction, no.

-RODION

at the quantum level there is no friction.

superconductivity is one example of a perpetual device.