compress air at the bottom and inject gasoline and ignite. to get to the top quicker.-- davidcreede, Aug 09 2003 Burnt Latke http://burntlatke.q...m/15cb-testday.htmlWhat happens when combustion products cool down. [Freefall, Oct 04 2004] Skys the limit.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 09 2003 Finger on "go" button, check around to see if there are any pregnant passengers, initiate countdown...-- lurch, Aug 09 2003 Something for the evil bond-villain in all of us.-- chud, Aug 09 2003 I quite like this - I feel there is a use for second-hand mattresses here. its always been a worry for me that old mattresses are good for nothing.
1st person to say mistresses gets a slap.
do hope my plurals are correct - my dictionary gives me no plurals for either
second thoughts, quite is inadequate - this is fun.-- po, Aug 09 2003 except with phoenix, what goes down must go up <g>-- po, Aug 09 2003 //second law of thermodynamics//
Don't all elevators go both up and down?-- suctionpad, Aug 11 2003 Not if it's a one-way elevator.-- snarfyguy, Aug 11 2003 [gnome] - are you absolutely sure about that? If so, good grief, Pioneer spacecraft are breaking the second law of thermodynamics.
I always thought they were "heat is work and work is heat" and "heat cannot of itself transfer from a cooler body to a hotter body".-- PeterSilly, Aug 11 2003 Weeeeeeell, that is sort of like it but I cant help thinking that that is a bit 'old school thinking' [PeterSilly] If you ask a friend if mine (who *is* an electrician) about any rule or principle, he generally says "What goes up must come down"The point that I was trying to make was that there was no description of the 'coming down' bit-- gnomethang, Aug 11 2003 Surely the downstroke could be controlled by restricting the outflow of the combustion products.
-->Bang! Elevator goes up
-->Hisssssss... Elevator goes down-- suctionpad, Aug 11 2003 Actually, [gnome] it's Flanders and Swann thinking - that's entropy, man.-- PeterSilly, Aug 11 2003 Go down via ratchet & brake.BANG! top floor.Kachunk kachunk kachunk kachunk next floor down.Repeat until at bottom.I think you could even make it work in a power outage.-- lurch, Aug 11 2003 I won't tell you again.
nice one lurch.-- po, Aug 11 2003 Funny thing about combusting gases: once they cool, they typically take up less volume than their initial components. It's the heat produced during combustion that causes the expansion. (link to come)-- Freefall, Aug 11 2003 i had to delete the post with the enitrely false definition of the second law of thermodynamics. sorry but i can't stand misinformation-- davidcreede, Aug 11 2003 buddha, <SLAP> that hurt me more than you sweetie.-- po, Aug 11 2003 my pleasure <g>
//i had to delete the post with the enitrely false definition of the second law of thermodynamics. sorry but i can't stand misinformation// whats that all about?-- po, Aug 11 2003 Someone tried to say that the second law of thermodynamics was "what goes up must come down" - sheesh!-- PeterSilly, Aug 12 2003 Come on, everyone knows that the three laws of thermodynamics are: 1 - You can't win. 2 - You can't break even. 3 - You can't leave the game.-- BigBrother, Aug 12 2003 That was me [Peter] and [davidcreede] - not entirely seriously I might add-- gnomethang, Aug 12 2003 noted, and i appy polly loggy, but i can't stand running into other people who think that "what goes up must come down" is a "scientific thing". And ridding the world of that mental item is one of my personal crusades.-- davidcreede, Aug 12 2003 ..which, of course, is to be lauded. No Worries.-- gnomethang, Aug 12 2003 Might be good to send things into space... or shoot aliens?-- BennyS, Nov 16 2003 random, halfbakery