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"What I have in my stories is ethics. Ethics and morality are very different cups of tea. I adhere to a very strict rigor of personal ethics and I demand it of those around me as well."
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![]() The Magnus Effect is a real phenomenon; as far as I know there are no real-world vehicles that actually use it.
The Magnus Effect is the generation of a sidewise force on a spinning cylindrical or spherical solid immersed in a fluid (physicists count gas and liquid here) when there is relative motion between the spinning body and the fluid. It was named after the German physicist H.G. Magnus, who first experimentally investigated the effect in 1853. This is why a ping pong ball or tennis ball will curve when hit with "English." Comment/Join this discussion ( 7 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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Wearable Energy Harvester
'... he had tightened the chest to gain maximum pumping action from the motion of breathing.'
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'...a prayer wheel swung into view and began spinning at a furious pace.'
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'And are all the people willing to be governed by a machine?'
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'It's an old model,' Rawlins said. 'I'm not sure what to do.'
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'the robot-boss was busy at the lip of the new lode instructing and egging the men on to greater speed...'
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'He rode the bike with an intense lack of physical grace...'
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