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* I suppose criticizing the lack of basic scientific knowledge presented in the book is comparable to criticizing the FTL communication device in ''The Dispossessed'', but seriously, perpetual motions machines? It just feels very weak.
** Weak or not, it's an easy way out of doing actual work to get energy. I'm not an expert but that doesn't seem very objectivist...
*** Considering that the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect:Casimir effect|Casimir effect]] was discovered ''nine years'' before the book was published, it probably didn't seem all that far-fetched at all. In the movie, Galt's motor is stated to be related to the Casimir effect. What does seem [[Conspiracy Theorist|far-fetched]] is that ''sixty-three years'' have passed and we still don't have free energy...
 
* John Galt's speech was 60-80 pages long. It must have lasted for the better part of an hour, or more. Yet, the entire time, he was transmitting from a ''pirated radio station.'' This is a man whom the ''entire'' [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Evil Government]] is desperately intent on silencing. I find it very hard to belive that no one managed to shut down the transmitter Galt was using in that whole time.
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