Saturday Silliness – a real page turner

41 Responses to Saturday Silliness – a real page turner

1. D. W. Schnare says:

   January 14, 2012 at 5:50 am

   I’ve modeled that sequence of events and determined it can’t happen.
2. Otter says:

   January 14, 2012 at 5:53 am

   Mr Schnare~ We need to verify your data. I shall shortly be submitting an FOIA request.
3. Deekaman says:

   January 14, 2012 at 5:56 am

   That was awesome, but as usual,I’m a skeptic.
4. Glenn A. Plant says:

   January 14, 2012 at 6:03 am

   Clearly several “warming” devices were employed. Climate Justice will need to be applied.

   /sarc
   GPlant
5. Chris B says:

   January 14, 2012 at 6:08 am

   You must be bored after that 100,000,000 milestone. I bet the billion mark comes faster.

   My contribution to the fight for National Rube Goldberg Day………..

   Just like climate models simulated Rube Goldberg’s can be made to do whatever you want them to do.
   
6. Warren in Minnesota says:

   January 14, 2012 at 6:15 am

   @Chris B

   This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country [Minnesota, USA] on copyright grounds.
7. _Jim says:

   January 14, 2012 at 6:19 am

   LOL
8. Dave says:

   January 14, 2012 at 6:55 am

   Were there any feedbacks?
9. Otter says:

   January 14, 2012 at 7:14 am

   Dave says:
   January 14, 2012 at 6:55 am
   Were there any feedbacks?

   Is that, like, kickbacks for hamsters?
10. Johan says:

    January 14, 2012 at 7:23 am

    As far as I can tell, it’ll work for only one page! Is this one-off behaviour typical of Rube-Goldberd devices?
11. JohnWho says:

    January 14, 2012 at 7:27 am

    All well and good until he wants to turn the next page.

    :)
12. Brian H says:

    January 14, 2012 at 7:27 am

    Chris B;
    C-Rappy and, as G&T would say, definitively unphysical. Where’s the fast-forward control? >:(
13. Chris B says:

    January 14, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Warren in Minnesota says:
    January 14, 2012 at 6:15 am
    @Chris B

    This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country [Minnesota, USA] on copyright grounds.

    _____________________________________

    Sorry about that. It works up here in the Great White North. There was no notice on the Youtube page it came from. Maybe there’s a searchable, non-copyright version in the US.
14. MattC says:

    January 14, 2012 at 7:53 am

    Honda’s “The Cog” is still my favorite.
    
15. ParisParamus says:

    January 14, 2012 at 7:57 am

    Ur…that’s a Guinea pig, not a hamster–they are cute rodents.
16. Jim S says:

    January 14, 2012 at 8:02 am

    Only slightly less complex than the whole “global warming as a means of wealth redistribution” scheme…..
17. DirkH says:

    January 14, 2012 at 8:35 am

    MattC says:
    January 14, 2012 at 7:53 am
    “Honda’s “The Cog” is still my favorite.”

    Doesn’t count. It’s computer-animated. (The tyres would never go up the ramp like that).
18. Urederra says:

    January 14, 2012 at 8:57 am

    I like OK Go´s “this too shall pass” Goldberg machine video. It has over 32 million views on Utube.

    Enjoy!
19. Brian H says:

    January 14, 2012 at 9:16 am

    But which switch is which?
20. Curiousgeorge says:

    January 14, 2012 at 9:38 am

    Proof that things are still Made In The USA! :)
21. Ian E says:

    January 14, 2012 at 9:40 am

    In the UK, we have a similar confection, referred too as a Heath Robinson contraption (named after an English cartoonist), pre-dating, I believe, your Rube Goldberg! [Which reminds me, an Americam student I knew many years ago was very surprised that we, in the UK, did not celebrate 4th July - go figure!]
22. Chuck L says:

    January 14, 2012 at 9:42 am

    It reminds me of “Mousetrap,” one of my favorite childhood games!
23. bulaman says:

    January 14, 2012 at 9:50 am

    kiwis eh!!
24. Harry Kal says:

    January 14, 2012 at 10:02 am

    Now that is what we call : “Tipping points”

    Harry
25. TXRed says:

    January 14, 2012 at 10:16 am

    Johan, yes, most Rube Goldberg/ Heath Robinson devices only work once, at least in real life.
26. Johan says:

    January 14, 2012 at 10:32 am

    TXRed,
    Thanks. Come to think of it, they’re sort of perpetual motion machines, except that they aren’t of course! :)
27. cui bono says:

    January 14, 2012 at 10:35 am

    The CGI ones are cheating. Oh, hang on, Gore used CGI extensively in his movie, so it must be ok.

    See also Wallace & Gromit at breakfast.
28. David A. Evans says:

    January 14, 2012 at 10:53 am

    I would say the UKs real Rube Goldberg was Roland Emmett.

    DaveE.
29. cui bono says:

    January 14, 2012 at 10:55 am

    More Saturday silliness. Your correspondents from Southern UK (including me) are now in danger from incoming Russian projectiles:
    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/spacecraft-could-crash-land-m4-corridor-031131344.html

    I don’t think we’d get a 4 minute warning….
30. Colonial says:

    January 14, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Ian E (January 14, 2012 at 9:40 am) wrote:

    … [Which reminds me, an Americam student I knew many years ago was very surprised that we, in the UK, did not celebrate 4th July - go figure!]

    I, too, am surprised that the UK doesn’t honor July 4th by celebrating the departure of those testy Colonials from the proverbial fold. They were such a pain in the neck! Aside from the annoyance caused by an ill-advised Royal Navy adventure from 1812-15, life in the UK must have been much more pleasant after 1781…
31. Phil says:

    January 14, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Here’s a real one that supposedly destroyed a lot of wine: http://youtu.be/V8ZmOgMlyRE
32. David Davidovics says:

    January 14, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    @Urederra

    Awesome video!!
33. David Waring says:

    January 14, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    Colonial says:
    January 14, 2012 at 11:48 am

    [...] ife in the UK must have been much more pleasant after 1781…

    Life in the UK has been going downhill steadily since 44 A.D.

    And the Trend Remains the Same.
34. Andrew30 says:

    January 14, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    This is an amazing work of animated musical construction.
35. TomB says:

    January 14, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    Andrew30 says:
    January 14, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    This is an amazing work of animated musical construction.

    Yeah, but it doesn’t play the second movement.
36. Lance of BC says:

    January 15, 2012 at 3:17 am

    Andrew30,

    Great video, brought to you by “TOUCHWOOD” , he hehe hehe(beavis & butthead) he hehe!
37. hunter says:

    January 15, 2012 at 6:31 am

    Interactive Rube Goldberg- amazing.
38. Brian H says:

    January 15, 2012 at 9:54 am

    Not exactly the score as I recall it, but terrific!
39. Geoff Withnell says:

    January 15, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    Actually, it isn’t animated, they purposely unbalanced the tires. I understand that it took weeks to get the sequence to run from the beginning, because some of the parts were so precariously set that they kept starting as peoplewere walking off the set from the vibration.

    MattC says:
    January 14, 2012 at 7:53 am
    “Honda’s “The Cog” is still my favorite.”

    Doesn’t count. It’s computer-animated. (The tyres would never go up the ramp like that).
40. MattC says:

    January 16, 2012 at 11:02 am

    DirkH says:
    January 14, 2012 at 8:35 am

    MattC says:
    January 14, 2012 at 7:53 am
    “Honda’s “The Cog” is still my favorite.”

    Doesn’t count. It’s computer-animated. (The tyres would never go up the ramp like that).

    And to further Geoff’s answer. The way you unbalance the tire is this: Take a plastic bag. Fill it with random bolts & nuts. Duct tape it to the inside of the tire. Place the tire on the incline and put a bolt behind it as a chock (if you carefully at the video you can see them). Now balance the tire so that the plastic bag-O-bolts is right at the very top of the tire. Now all you have to do is nudge the tire forward, the weight of the bag on the inside of the tire makes it roll up hill for one half of a revolution where it nudges the next tire.

    I wonder if there’s something in there that might be instructive even for the overall focus of this particular blog. For instance, maybe there are influences on climate that, just perhaps, we can’t readily see that can cause phenomenon we would think unlikely or not expect.
41. Brian H says:

    January 18, 2012 at 1:22 am

    Phil says:
    January 14, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Here’s a real one that supposedly destroyed a lot of wine: http://youtu.be/V8ZmOgMlyRE

    Not a drop! Vodka and cognac are not wines.
    ;)

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