On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:34, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:28, Evan McNabb wrote: > > I'm going to get flamed for such an off topic post but this is one > > of the coolest things I've seen. I heard it took hundreds off shots > > to get it right. > > Rube Goldberg would be proud. Although I must say that many of the > parts are fake (or at least not naturally moving). For instance the > tires rolling up the ramp. I think there's some potential energy > problems there. Also the muffler rolling along the floor. They just > don't move quite like that, being oval-shaped.
You obviously didn't read the explanation here [1]: "At one point three tyres, amazingly, roll uphill. They do so because inside they have been weighted with bolts and screws which have been positioned with fingertip care so that the slightest kiss of kinetic energy pushes them over, onward and, yes, upward." Or maybe you just didn't believe them :) Bryan 1. http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/13/nhonda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
