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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

Thermodynamics:

You must play the game.
You can't win.
You can't break even,
You can't get out of the game.

The tree laws of thermodynamics
1. Conservation of energy.  The amount of energy in a system remains 
constant over time.
   "You can't win."
2. Entropy.  Heat always flows from the warmer to colder state unless 
outside energy enters the system.
   "You can't break even."
3. It is impossible to reach absolute zero.
   "You can't get out of the game."

I once had someone who I thought was a reasonably intelligent person 
tell me that god would not let us run out of oil.  We are running out.  
Combine the above laws with periodic compounding and you can see that it 
is inevitable that what we are doing now cannot continue.


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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html