RE: (TFT) eternal gates?

["Brad Thompson" <bthomps@petrodatasource.com>]

> Thorn
>
> Ouch.  Disclaim all 'real' physics, then.  One rogue madman, one gate
> pair, the rule set to 'always on', and a single dropped coin...
>
> The gravitic center of the planet will move as that coin accelerates to
> fractions of C.  Heck if you can set the rule to 'on until x speed',
> you've got as big a bomb as you're willing to wait for.

Air resistance would burn it away long before it became a bomb.  The best
you could get was a small shooting star.

Now, if you had a lodestone and a coil of wire, you'd have invented the
first perpetual battery...

-Brad

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