Archer Quinn calls it quits: "You may have been able to prevent the straw from falling, maybe not."

With another steaming pile of cryptic sayings, Archer Quinn is officially bidding his all-too-entertaining free energy project farewell. From what we can gather, he's decided that the problem of free energy is really too simple to warrant his time and effort -- we're all "monkeys" who let The Man keep us down with Newton's outdated laws of physics. "You look but you do not see, you hear but you do not listen. Your planet is crap because you are all monkeys." Can't argue with that logic. Farewell Archer, our time spent attempting to decipher your cryptic sayings was cut all too short. Please start a blog.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[Taylor @ Jun 4th 2008 12:21PM]

Douche. Bag.
-Taylor

[bohsocks @ Jun 4th 2008 12:38PM]

He does have a point though... we need to repeal those outdated laws of physics!!! CHANGE: Obama-Quinn '08!

[Homeboy @ Jun 4th 2008 12:40PM]

Because you just wrote that, he'll be laying under sister's bed in the exact same pose and creepy facial expression on Father's day this Sunday..

[Sachin @ Jun 4th 2008 12:40PM]

I underwent serious therapeutic counseling after seeing this picture on Engadget the first two times. Thanks a lot for putting it up yet again.

[bohsocks @ Jun 4th 2008 1:30PM]

@Homeboy:

There's a "monkey's uncle" and a "child molesting uncle" joke somewhere in there but my primate mind isn't developed enough to spin it correctly.

[AJ @ Jun 4th 2008 1:40PM]

lol Check out the "pedo-smile" ...

[badassdjbynight @ Jun 4th 2008 4:22PM]

Two links.. one is a forum thread on overunity.com where you can see some of Archer's logic in action:

http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,4540.msg102148.html#msg102148

Second is a youtube video I made to try to convince him and others on that site that there is no free energy in a simple lever:

http://www.youtube.com/user/badassdjbynight

[Sylvanus @ Jun 4th 2008 5:19PM]

And why does this man get media coverage? True measure of an idiot is that for someone who claims to be smarter than us, he still could have "invented" it for his own personal use and just had a $0 energy bill..if it were true. He'll definitely believe in Newton's law when this rock in my hand hits him upside the head.

[Mark @ Jun 4th 2008 8:02PM]

"Hello Clarice"

[Joey F. @ Jun 4th 2008 12:23PM]

looks like someone wanted some internet fame and couldnt deliver a product. i bet this turns to an apple-microsoft flame wars somehow

[IndusCreed @ Jun 4th 2008 12:25PM]

who cares..does it have multitouch?

[Don @ Jun 4th 2008 12:26PM]

No, but I suspect that Archer does.

[LondonConsultant @ Jun 4th 2008 1:06PM]

Maybe Quinn's ideas were inspired by hard-drive thrashing during Vista boot-ups, when Newtonian physics breaks down and the present stretches to infinity...

[farfisa @ Jun 4th 2008 12:25PM]

A blog? Hell, with that level of superiority, why not a cult?

[Anthony @ Jun 4th 2008 12:27PM]

I wonder if you need the decoder ring from cracker jack boxes to understand him... I've always wanted to use that damn decoder ring I found 15 years ago.

[ByronGman @ Jun 4th 2008 12:27PM]

Vaporware!

[Najakwa @ Jun 4th 2008 12:27PM]

I gave up on my time machine for the same reasons.

[brickwood @ Jun 4th 2008 12:29PM]

ROFL!

[urbanpeasant @ Jun 4th 2008 4:58PM]

It's too bad your time machine didn't work. If it did you could have traveled back in time and not wasted time working on it.

[hockeycheck @ Jun 4th 2008 12:28PM]

this guy is so lonely he doesn't even have anyone to take this picture for him... laaaaame

[Chad @ Jun 4th 2008 12:38PM]

No, he is married to a famous doctor. You may know her, Dr. Quinn.

[Ayle @ Jun 4th 2008 1:16PM]

@Chad
Harley?

[Rob Pereira @ Jun 4th 2008 2:25PM]

@Ayle
Medicine Woman.

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jun 4th 2008 10:54PM]

Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman was a US television show that ran from 1993-1998.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103405/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Quinn,_Medicine_Woman

[Gregory Kimball @ Jun 4th 2008 12:29PM]

Maybe we should plug Mr. Quinn into the power grid. He generates more than enough hot air to meet all of our future energy needs.

[GP1138 @ Jun 4th 2008 3:07PM]

Stick him up on a pole in front of the windmill farms.

[Mile @ Jun 4th 2008 12:31PM]

This is a sad, sad, day...for future comedy relief!

[Rick @ Jun 4th 2008 12:32PM]

Monkeys?

Monkey see, monkey do. (or was that doodoo in the space capsule?)

[DestroyerMTL @ Jun 4th 2008 12:33PM]

This guy is a frigging moron.

I doubt he even has highschool physics.

Beware of the MG conspriacy people!

[TimB @ Jun 4th 2008 12:33PM]

When I read his original posts I figured out that what he was trying to do was have a disk with pivoting weights that fell closer to the centre on one side and further out on the other as it rotated. Thinking that the weights on the out side would impart more force about the turning centre. Obviously failed to realise there would be more weights in the end on the closer to centre side and it would all balance its self out.

Perhaps he should have done some testing before shouting his mouth off!

[enzo @ Jun 4th 2008 12:34PM]

Please, give us another chance!

[coffee @ Jun 4th 2008 12:35PM]

"I want to see you hole back the Ocean in the next 4 years".

No, YOU hole back the ocean. I'm holing back the mountains.

[bkstiff @ Jun 4th 2008 12:39PM]

He needs to read up on kinetic energy since he based his whole concept on falling matter trying to justify it in terms of over shooting some sort of gravity equilibrium. He obviously missed out on Cub Scuts as a child, he would have learned all this in the Pine Wood Derby Event. LOL

[David @ Jun 4th 2008 12:43PM]

Eh.. Wait tell the 20th and we'll see what he's got..

[retro77 @ Jun 4th 2008 12:44PM]

tool

[peshue @ Jun 4th 2008 12:46PM]

Well luckily he clearly doesn't live on this crappy planet of ours.

[NHAnimator @ Jun 4th 2008 12:48PM]

I'd be wary of opening my mailbox if I were on this guy's mailing list.

[Morgan Boyle @ Jun 4th 2008 12:50PM]

personally, i think he's on to something.

[Don @ Jun 4th 2008 12:56PM]

"personally, i think he's on to something."

personally, i think he's on something.

Fixed :)

[wsnideman @ Jun 4th 2008 12:50PM]

This guy isn't a moron, he's a charlatan:

Charlatan
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This Source
A charlatan is a person practising quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money or advantage via some form of pretence or deception

Charlatans are just like prostitutes, except they lie for money

[rodan32 @ Jun 4th 2008 1:37PM]

How the crap do I get in on that? I really need some better lies.

[fanthem @ Jun 4th 2008 1:48PM]

Don't prostitues also lie when they tell you you're so big and great.

[xdrewfacex @ Jun 4th 2008 1:52PM]

don't prostitutes lie for money? :)

[wsnideman @ Jun 4th 2008 2:24PM]

You're right. I think someone should expose his fraud and give all the money he made to real scientists.

[Don @ Jun 4th 2008 12:54PM]

Seriously, this guy is comedy gold. Check these wonderful excerpts:

"Paedophile Check?????? I want f@cking Newtonian checks brought in to schools. Next time you talk to one just say yooouuuu diiickheads."

"f@cking apes, Charlton heston was lucky for him it was just a f@cking movie, I have to wake up to this shit every day.

you can dig up Isaac newton so he can suck my cock.

why does it work??"

[Dualboot @ Jun 4th 2008 12:55PM]

"Last post

Signed

Just another idiot"

I concur. Please go away and come back when a) you can write clearly and b) you have something useful to say.

[Ryan Trevisol @ Jun 4th 2008 1:01PM]

"So use the base hydro and one of the in line systems to pump it back, because of the cohesive rope the power of the river remains as one, as for the other hydros in the line? stick all the others up your ass."

Wow.

[Micah Blomgren @ Jun 4th 2008 3:00PM]

Laughing so hard "base hydros" came out my ass.

[OSnix*-geek @ Jun 4th 2008 4:16PM]

This sounds like one of those spam e-mails. It would actually be funny to see a spam bot made from this guys ramblings. Or some site that you could send random ramblings of this guy to "rick-roll" a friend.

[Ryan Trevisol @ Jun 4th 2008 4:30PM]

I'm pretty sure what he's trying to say (though it's rather like trying to interpret Lassie) is that instead of using several hydroelectric plants along a river to harness energy, they should use the energy of one to pump the water back upstream.

Yeah, he's still an idiot.