Read a book!
Nov. 29th, 2009 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderplanetI don't know if I've mentioned it lately, but the public library is really the most awesomest place ever.
I found the information that I was looking for in less than half an hour. The answer was in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of science and technology for those of you playing at home. The definitive answer is that "Some Dude" is at least mostly right, most probably entirely right.
Driving to the library is less convenient than sitting at home in front of a computer, but unlike internet research, there's no reading through half an article and then finding out that it's published by Doctor Crackpot's Conspiracy Warehouse, and then finding out that Dr. Crackpot's sources are a bad dream, a guy at the bus stop and an article by Swindler Industries Inc.
There's citable sources at the end and everything, and not "Wikipedia," they're even legitimate sources. Virtually none of the articles include an ad in the middle for a perpetual motion machine.
I found the information that I was looking for in less than half an hour. The answer was in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of science and technology for those of you playing at home. The definitive answer is that "Some Dude" is at least mostly right, most probably entirely right.
Driving to the library is less convenient than sitting at home in front of a computer, but unlike internet research, there's no reading through half an article and then finding out that it's published by Doctor Crackpot's Conspiracy Warehouse, and then finding out that Dr. Crackpot's sources are a bad dream, a guy at the bus stop and an article by Swindler Industries Inc.
There's citable sources at the end and everything, and not "Wikipedia," they're even legitimate sources. Virtually none of the articles include an ad in the middle for a perpetual motion machine.
