The search for perpetual motion. Read: A short history of the search for perpetual motion, by Donald E. Simanek
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Futility Music
Music to be tortured by See Torture By Music at MusicRadar.com to learn what is… known in the torture trade as futility music — chosen to “convince the prisoner of the futility of maintaining his position”. and US military have been using music as a form of torture in Iraq. Psychological operations (or psyops) play Metallica’s Enter Sandman or Eminem’s White America at…
Futility, a novel that eerily predicted the sinking of the Titanic
(Update: unfortunately, the Titanic Adventure Slide is no longer available from Allison’s Fun, Inc. No word of it sank. Now available here: nFlatables) From the oracle Wikipedia comes Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan: Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan was an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the ocean liner…