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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Magnets and Marbles in Motion

MacObserver.com shared this great and funny video of a kind of Rube Goldberg machine.



A Rube Goldberg machine is a long mechanical process with no great purpose except fun. In Danish this is called a "Storm P. Maskine", after the comic Storm P. who did the same thing in Denmark. The two men were actually born almost at the same time, 1882/1883, so I'm not sure who invented it.

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4 comments:

  1. Tommy12 May 2016, 20:08:00

    I love Rube Goldberg machines. Actually I think he just might make a good President in this Good Old U.S. of A..
    :-)

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  2. Eolake Stobblehouse12 May 2016, 21:19:00

    They've had worse. Oh wait, he's dead. Well, they've still had worse. :-)

    (Sorry folks. Obviously I am talking about a (name of the opposite party of yours) president!

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  3. TC [Girl]16 May 2016, 08:44:00

    This was so cool!! Can't imagine how much time it must have taken to set all those pieces up, "just so!" Amazing!!

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  4. Eolake Stobblehouse16 May 2016, 09:52:00

    I agree, the exceptional precision of this one is part of what makes it a very unusual Rube machine.

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