If your brother makes a mistake, the thing buzzes in his hand.

Mercury switches are insane on a bomb unless you are a highly trained expert it will go off when you least expect.

Ha! In high school my brother played "gotcha", a spy game, and his best trick was an altoids box with a battery, a mercury switch, and a buzzer. Pick it up, it starts buzzing loudly with a note inside that said "boom, this was a bomb, you're dead". Not something to do now, but in the 80's, that was LARP. It was simple, easy, and worked every time. You're nuts if you think it's difficult to build, it's ridiculously simple.

Guys, it's not a movie. Regular terrorists are lucky if they can rig a detonator to explode when they want it to. Mercury switches and all that crap are purely for spy thrillers.

Not much danger in moving the car, or at least not because you were moving the car.

Freddie Mercury is rolling over in his grave.

I don't think that's possible because, even if he used a large enough glass and enough mercury, it doesn't flow evenly like sand does, so can't be used to measure time accurately.
The air in the bottom has to bubble up through the mercury to equalize the pressure (instead of flowing evenly through the sand) and get the flow going again, then it instantly becomes un-equal in pressure again which slows the flow to almost nothing, and repeat. Maybe that's predictable...but it would be some seriously difficult math because each round deals with different pressures and volumes.

According to Jalopnik's Jason Torchinsky, the car that inspired Little Red Corvette is actually a 1964 Mercury Montclair Marauder owned by Lisa Coleman (Prince helped her buy it at auction in 1980 in Minneapolis).

Indeed. The only thing notable about this video (other than the bravura performance by Lindsey Stirling) is how evident it is that Freddie Mercury by himself could out-sing three men at the top of their craft.

They probably shouldn't be doing that with most electronics b/c...mercury.

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Any country that can produce Freddie Mercury is alright in my book.

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That was duking awesome!!!
*promote the hell out of straight Freddie Mercury rocking that silk paisley hard.
He's totally still got it.

Catchy tune too.