On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, William Beaty wrote: > So, knowing what you know, what would you do differently?
Me, I'd firmly decide that already some better people than I had utterly failed to find a way to make any money off such a discovery. It's just too big. By having a family who could receive death-threats, I couldn't touch it even in order to distribute the information for free. (Also, I know that you can't simply publish the plans, since that's been done many times before, and the few people who actually try building a device will do something wrong, and fail.) So I'd become "Johnny Overunity-seed," and also devote a few years of my life to spreading a memetic virus. First, I'd suddenly vanish. Go underground. Then I'd work my way across the country, going from friend to friend, carrying a working prototype. My goal would be to teach people to build copies that actually work. My second goal would be to convince each person to go and teach several friends to make working copies... and have them try to convince those other people to do the same. Each person would become a teacher who had promised to go out and create more teachers. This would be the equivalent of lighting a fire NOT with a single match, but while strolling along across the world and flinging matches left and right. Here's some lunatic ravings from 1999: Lighting a fire http://amasci.com/freenrg/spred1.txt Also: The prometheus game http://amasci.com/freenrg/prometh.html Rules for FE inventors http://amasci.com/weird/rules1.html (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
