From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 18 2000 - 13:56:24 MDT
Ken Clements wrote:
>
> Doug Jones wrote:
> >
> > Of course, evolution can't make major breaks with past art. No amount
> > of Diesel engine design evolution will give you a Stirling cycle.
> > Design does have its place.
>
> But evolution did give us the Stirling engine.
> -Ken
How so? If you're putting forth the squirrel case that Robert Stirling
was himself a product of evolution, well then *everything* made by
humans is a product of evolution. A tautology of zero value. BTW, the
stirling cycle was invented long before the deisel cycle, 1816 vs 1892.
-- Doug Jones Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
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