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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2014, 03:56 PM Dec 2014

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Dumping a huge bag of plastic balls onto an escalator

http://boingboing.net/2014/12/06/dumping-a-huge-bag-of-plastic.html

It's almost a perpetual motion machine, and is absolutely a source of infinite amusement!

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Dumping a huge bag of plastic balls onto an escalator (Original Post) KamaAina Dec 2014 OP

now that was cool! thanks! n/t orleans Dec 2014 #1

I wonder if that could be a model of any sort of chemical or nuclear reaction... hunter Dec 2014 #2

Or perhaps a lotto drawing KamaAina Dec 2014 #4

Dude in the sweater is thinking, "So I gotta take the stairs?" NightWatcher Dec 2014 #3

orleans

(34,040 posts)

1. now that was cool! thanks! n/t

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 04:20 PM

Dec 2014

hunter

(38,302 posts)

2. I wonder if that could be a model of any sort of chemical or nuclear reaction...

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 04:31 PM

Dec 2014

Here's a nuclear fission reaction:

(The balls are neutrons...)

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

4. Or perhaps a lotto drawing

Reply to hunter (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 05:47 PM

Dec 2014

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

3. Dude in the sweater is thinking, "So I gotta take the stairs?"

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2014, 05:38 PM

Dec 2014

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