Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>   I wonder why everyone is always so concerned about the violation of the
>>> second law of thermodynamics. What about the first law? Why isn't anyone
>>> concerned about that one? Someone might be violating the first law of
>>> thermodynamics right now, and nobody cares!
> 
>> Tell me: Precisely *how* could you possibly violate the First Law? ;-)
> 
>   With a perpetual motion machine, of course.
> 
>   There's also a third law of thermodynamics. Is anyone watching that one?

...OK, checking what Wikipedia has to say on the matter, the 1st law 
says something radically different from what I was expecting.

I guess this is what happens when you learn thermodynamics from Flanders 
& Swan. :-P

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