drz

I thought in the increasing acceleration scenario the universe would go through a "Big Rip" where even matter is basically shredded at the molecular level.

I'm saying that if you are using a typical light bulb (such as the kind you screw in) then it will not work with DC power. go to wal mart (or your equivalent) and get a headlight bulb for an car. You should be able to power this with pretty much any size battery, however the closer you get to operation voltage the brighter it will get. Can I inquire as to your purpose for lighting a bulb via battery? Why not get a flashlight?

Yep, I think your problem is that you are trying to power an AC device with DC power. Likewise, a single 9 volt battery hooked to a proper invertor would easily light your bulb.

and someone went a step further, thinking if they could slide the weight, it would work. Hence picture half your balls sliding inward at some point to throw more weight towards the downward moving side. Anyhow, its all hooey. Maybe if you paid someone to give it a spin every 5 or 10 minutes, kinda like a price is right wheel???

I've always heard Perpetual motion machines defined as " a machine that once set in motion (implying someone/thing starts it) will stay in motion until such a time as parts wear out" Anyhow, accepting that definition of a pm machine will allow you to view an atom as such, since it continues in motion until it wears out. Same with the universe, etc. PM is a joke. Sure, you can play with magnets and get a shaft spinning, but try hooking up a generator to that shaft and draw current. You might get a little, but as the draw increases, it puts up more and more resitance to the rotation, eventually canceling out the spin. Your overbalanced wheel is much to the same effect. In a gravity free enviroment, using frictionless (or near frictionless) bearings, you could possibly cause a wheel to spin for a incredible amount of time. But how do you plan on drawing energy from this thing? Turn a generator, maybe via gear and chain or belt and pulley? Perhaps a direct shaft mounted on the wheel? It will bring the spinning motion of the wheel to a halt, if whatever provided the initial energy to spin the wheel up to begin with is removed. Sure, you might make a little power, but not enough to continue respinning the wheel, and, power a 2 bedroom house. Anyhow, the attempts at PM using wheels weren't completly wastefull. Want to see a modern day version of a spinning wheel? Rip the engine out your car and check out the flywheel. The engine's purpose, basically, is to spin the flywheel up to speed. As you disengage the clutch, the flywheels rotation is transferred to the transmission, which, through various gear ratio's outputs to the wheels, and moves you down the road. A pottery table is another example of a flywheel in action. A simple foot pedal spins it up to speed, allowing the person to work on the pottery. After a short time, the wheel must be sped up again. By the person molding the pottery, he/she is removing energy from the system, doing work, and slowly bringing the wheel to a halt. So, it took me all that to say, even if you do get an overbalanced wheel (could you define this "overbalanced" thing) working and spinning, exactly how do plan to harness usefull work out of it?

if your using windows you can easily setup a shared folder, in which you would keep the files you want access to, setup a password and folder rights, and boom. The trick, as was mentioned, would be wether or not your ip is static. If so, get your ip address (incase you don't know http://www.whatismyip.com ) and from any other browser just type //whatever.your.ip.is/nameofsharedfolder and it should prompt you to enter a password. Of course, I'm getting ahead of myself. What kind of OS are you using at home, and what kind of OS's will you be using to access the files? Another option would be some of this Gotomypc type software thats been popping up. Or you could setup a website, host your files on it, so long as they aren't to large. In my life, I find myself working with text documents alot, so what I do, is simply get a web-based email, like yahoo, and email myself the document I'm working on. This way I can access it at any pc with an internet connection.

A plastic bottle can hold alot of psi. I've had a 20 oz bottle up to 60 psi. I was trying to launch something out of the bottle though. It worked pretty good, would launch a paintball further then walmart guns. Anyhow, if you have to launch the bottle itself, you would need some kinda nozzle that would force the flow of the air out through a smaller hole, maybe several holes. You would want the egg to be about dead center in the craft, to high or to low will cause that side to plummet to earth. The velcro idea sounds like a good idea, but remember, duct tape is good enough for Nascar.