I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities

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John Jay Smith

"I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities. I cannot discover
that any one knows enough about anything on this earth definitely to say
what is and what is not possible.
The right kind of experience, the right kind of technical training, ought to
enlarge the mind and reduce the number of impossibilities.

It unfortunately does nothing of the kind. Most technical training and the
average of that which we call experience, provide a record of previous
failures and, instead of these failures being taken for what they are worth,
they are taken as absolute bars to progress.

If some man, calling himself an authority, says that this or that cannot be
done, then a hoard of unthinking followers start the chorus: "it can't be
done"

Henry Ford, My life and work, 1922



For those who have closed minds.. if they do not listen to me, perhaps they
may listen to Ford.
 
»Q« - 02.08.2006 04:01 :
That's because Mr. Ford never tried to convince you to stop posting
off-topic noise to a newsgroup.
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I agree.

BTW: And I wonder, how many hours a day John Jay Smith must sitting on his
computer. He is very very very active here insisting in nearly any
subject/thread and/or create a new one as this OT. I wonder he knows any
other work/hobbies/interests in things other than reading/writing NGs? Well,
everybody as he wants.
 
I just have to add this for Mike Dee, because when people say stupid things
like that
they make me furious...

If FORD did not do what he did, there is 50 % possibility that DEE would not
be ALIVE now! Yep.. Mr. Dee who snobbishly is making fun of things he
clearly does not understand, may very well owe his life to Mr. Ford. Why?
Because the mass production methods
that Ford developed and was copied by every industry in the world enabled
mass production of machines tools and other technology that helped
agriculture, so that they too could boost productivity.
Thus the baby boom happened and the population of the world doubled. It
doubled because there was food to feed them.
Even if Mike Dee is 100 years old (pre ford era), then no one could be sure
he wouldn't have died from famine or disease that were problems counteracted
by mass production and prosperity from people who thought with open minds
like Ford.

If everyone was sitting around saying this or that was impossible, then
where would be now?

A bit of trivia for you Mr. Dee... George Washington had negro slaves and
owned vast lands that those men and women worked there for only food... !
What does that prove about America? You see times and ideas change.. so even
if ford was not an angel you must be aware of the times he was living in.
But what is important is what Ford said and is 100% percent correct whether
you like it or not.


John Jay Smith said:
They say Disney had a dark side too.....

well in fact if you look at ANY person in the world they had a dark
side...

so what does this prove? That Ford was not right it what he said?

The same thing in different words have been thought, said, and proven by
a huge number of people who changed our world for the better.

Don't forget, even though ford may have not been an angel,
his contribution to humanity is great. By streamlining production
and using new methods he help production boost, and that gave
prosperity to the world. All the things you have around you are not hand
made...
take a look now.. even the computer you are using is based on methods of
production
Ford created. And I ask you, how many people thought computers of such
power and
low cost was IMPOSSIBLE? It was this revolution that changed the world.

So who am I going to listen to? History or you who are making fun of
things you don't seem to understand!

Your post shows how incredibly ignorant some people are... its a disgrace
that humans do not know
and understand such things in 2006.
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:-)

Well we would probably be extinct because only with tools and fire and some
other early technology did we have advantage over other predators, other
manlike apes and hard weather.

It is the ability of the mans mind to "imagine" something and then go build
it what has made us what we are.
 
Catch a fart, paint it blue and carry it about in a wheelbarrow.


FYI, This is already happening.

Methane from gases of animals are collected put in metallic containers under
pressure.
These containers are blue, and are moved around with fork lifts,
that is the modern equivilent of a wheelbarrow.

Methane is used as fuel.

:-)
 
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

I have written a whole theory on this subject and it clearly states that
anything is possible in an infinite multiuniverse. Its based on the latest
discoveries of
how our universe works...
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Anything is possible unless it is self-contradictory or violates a
definition. For example, the classic "this sentence is false".

I don't care how many infinite multiuniverses you have it is
impossible for that sentence to be true.

For another example, it is impossible for a living thing to be dead or
vice versa because of the definition of each. If you change the
definition, you have created a new possibility, not proven the
possibility of the old definition.

Load your semantic cannon and fire when ready.

Mr Bill
 
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

FYI, This is already happening.

Methane from gases of animals are collected put in metallic containers under
pressure.
These containers are blue, and are moved around with fork lifts,
that is the modern equivilent of a wheelbarrow.

Methane is used as fuel.
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He said "paint" it blue. Pay attention.

Mr Bill
 
John Jay Smith wrote:

FYI, This is already happening.

Methane from gases of animals are collected put in metallic containers under
pressure.
These containers are blue, and are moved around with fork lifts,
that is the modern equivilent of a wheelbarrow.

Methane is used as fuel.
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</YAWN>

Kenny says "no one really cares about what I post". . .
I wonder why? lessee. . .

1. boring
2. off-topic
3. stupid replies to funny comments
4.
5.

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

</YAWN>

Kenny says "no one really cares about what I post". . .
I wonder why? lessee. . .

1. boring
2. off-topic
3. stupid replies to funny comments
4.
5.

Susan
--
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Well, if you make me choose, yours would be.... all three! You win!

Mr Bill
 
Susan said:
John Jay Smith wrote:



</YAWN>
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I can only conclude that JJ *must* be a wind-up merchant. None of it
makes any sense. Even a retard wouldn't come out with it. I should have
thought it would be nigh-on impossible to collect gases from animals.
"These containers are blue" - WTF? "Fork lifts ... modern equivalent of
a wheelbarrow" - double-WTF.
 
methane gas is blue.... like natural gas :-) You can add color to the gas
for
safety reasons also
 
Close that gapping maw.. a dragon may fly in


Susan Bugher said:
John Jay Smith wrote:



</YAWN>

Kenny says "no one really cares about what I post". . .
I wonder why? lessee. . .

1. boring
2. off-topic
3. stupid replies to funny comments
4.
5.

Susan
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas

We have natural gas metallic containers that are distributed with trucks
that are loaded with pitch forks.. whats your problem boy? Is it impossible
that one day those containers may have biogas?

We are talking about what is possible. Jules Vern said, what one man can
imagine another can create. Einstein said that imagination is far more
important than knowledge.

Anyway you have me plonked.... in your killfile...

Please decide what you want to do.. I would prefer you having me in your
killfile... you have not said
one thing of interest all this time I have been in this newsgroup!
 
Bill said:
Au contraire, my friend.
There is nothing in the world more dangerous than a leader who thinks
nothing is impossible. Especially if he is your platoon commander. :-)
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Amen. And then there are these impossibilities:

1. walk one mile on a razor blades, wearing no shoes
2. take a deep breath, naked in outer space
3. jump from 40 thousand feet with no oxygen and no parachute, and live
4. stop an oncoming fifty mph, three-engine, fifty-car train by standing
in its way
5. find a good freeware truetype font editor that runs in Windows.

Impossibilities abound in this world. Not admitting that this is so is a
sure sign of mental illness. No matter how nobly a person words the
saying, it's not words of wisdom. Not in any context.
 
Susan said:
John Jay Smith wrote:



Kenny says "no one really cares about what I post". . .
I wonder why? lessee. . .
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1. boring
2. off-topic
3. stupid replies to funny comments
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Kenny says: "methane gas is blue.... like natural gas :-) You can add
color to the gas for safety reasons also"

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/wcee/keep/Mod1/Unitall/definitions.htm
"Natural gas - An odorless, colorless". . .

4. erroneous information
5.
6.
7.

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Kenny says: "methane gas is blue.... like natural gas :-) You can add
color to the gas for safety reasons also"

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/wcee/keep/Mod1/Unitall/definitions.htm
"Natural gas - An odorless, colorless". . .

4. erroneous information
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At first Kenny said "FYI, This is already happening."

now Kenny's says "Is it impossible that one day those containers may
have biogas?"

5. unfounded claims
6.
7.

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the flame is blue....
http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/photos/coal/Coal_startPage2.jpg

Color and smell have been added sometimes to prevent accidents.
And I can tell you that the natural gas I have bought is always in blue
metallic containers and
has a distinct smell. I just don't know if the smell is added for safety
reasons.

But here is some more information.
All elements have color even though it may not be visible to the human eye
directly. That's how spectroscopy works
and thats how we know what elements are on other stars etc. Because color
means a variation of white light.

Even though you cannot see the color, with spectroscopy you see black lines
where the element is absorbing
light in those frequencies. And those black lines mean that it does in fact
have color.
And I must add that if a gas is "seemingly" transparent if you have a thick
enough layer of it, you can see the color
if you shed light through it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy
 
Gesh ! you are worst than I thought!
I mean I had a hunch, but I was avoiding you. Now I see was wise!

Im out of here...
 
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