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http://www.videosift.com/video/A-pyromaniacs-Rube-Goldberg-chain-reaction

"Sad sack" haha - thanks for the promote!

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
The king's crossing was the main attraction
Dominos are falling in a chain reaction
The scraping subject ruled by fear told me
Whiskey works better than beer

The judge is on vinyl, decisions are final
And nobody gets a reprieve
And every wave is tidal
If you hang around
You're going to get wet

I can't prepare for death any more than I already have
All you can do now is watch the shells
The game looks easy, that's why it sells
Frustrated fireworks inside your head
Are going to stand and deliver talk instead
The method acting that pays my bills
Keeps the fat man feeding in Beverly Hills
I got a heavy metal mouth that hurls obscenity
And I get my check from the trash treasury
Because I took my own insides out

It don't matter because I have no sex life
All I want to do now is inject my ex-wife
I've seen the movie
And I know what happens

It's Christmas time
And the needles on the tree
A skinny Santa is bringing something to me
His voice is overwhelming
But his speech is slurred
And I only understand every other word
Open your parachute and grab your gun
Falling down like an omen, a setting sun
Read the part and return at five
It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive
But I don't care if I fuck up
I'm going on a date
With a rich white lady
Ain't life great?
Give me one good reason not to do it
(Because we love you)
So do it

This is the place where time reverses
Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses
Instruments shine on a silver tray
Don't let me get carried away
Don't let me get carried away
Don't let me be carried away

The king's crossing was the main attraction
Dominos are falling in a chain reaction
The scraping subject ruled by fear told me
Whiskey works better than beer

The judge is on vinyl, decisions are final
And nobody gets a reprieve
And every wave is tidal
If you hang around
You're going to get wet

I can't prepare for death any more than I already have
All you can do now is watch the shells
The game looks easy, that's why it sells
Frustrated fireworks inside your head
Are going to stand and deliver talk instead
The method acting that pays my bills
Keeps the fat man feeding in Beverly Hills
I got a heavy metal mouth that hurls obscenity
And I get my check from the trash treasury
Because I took my own insides out

It don't matter because I have no sex life
All I want to do now is inject my ex-wife
I've seen the movie
And I know what happens

It's Christmas time
And the needles on the tree
A skinny Santa is bringing something to me
His voice is overwhelming
But his speech is slurred
And I only understand every other word
Open your parachute and grab your gun
Falling down like an omen, a setting sun
Read the part and return at five
It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive
But I don't care if I fuck up
I'm going on a date
With a rich white lady
Ain't life great?
Give me one good reason not to do it
(Because we love you)
So do it

This is the place where time reverses
Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses
Instruments shine on a silver tray
Don't let me get carried away
Don't let me get carried away
Don't let me be carried away

>> ^Fade:
>> ^spoco2:
I'm not saying particularly that Bin Laden etc. were responsible. What they are claiming is that the buildings collapsed due to a planned demolition and that the planes hitting the buildings were merely a coverup to hide it. I don't know who brought down the towers other than it was those piloting the aeroplanes into them that did it... having a 767 smashing into it at high speed can do that to a building
Really? When, outside of 911, have you seen a 767 smash into a building designed to withstand a 767 smashing into it. I mean, you make it sound like collapsing in on itself is the obvious result but I'm not sure how you've come to that conclusion. Can you provide evidence for the claim?


So, because you've seen a building be demolished and it looks the same as that, you think that that's the only plausible explanation for the WTC to collapse? Despite the fact that you know aeroplanes crashed into them? If you actually looked at how the WTC were built (centre steal core with an outer web) and then considered what happened (fires heated the steal trusses between the inner and outer portions to an extent that they started to bow) and also watched some actual footage of the side of the building being pulled inwards JUST as would happen if that was happening, and then saw that piece of the building actually give way and break, starting the chain reaction of the building collapse...

Well, then you might think 'yup, that seems pretty darn plausible to me'. Compare that to... well, let's see, we first have to have explosives planted around the place somehow... in such a way that NO ONE noticed... then we have to get this whole aeroplane crashing into the buildings thing to happen... THEN we have to have the building actually fail at the point where the aircraft entered (because there is video SHOWING it fail there first just as it starts to collapse), and then we somehow have to have some demolition work in such a way as people wouldn't see any further chargers going off.

It is such a complete and utter fools errand trying to suggest that they were brought down by demolition.

Then you have to ask who would do that? (sure, you can come up with a lot), but then you would also have to think... WHY would they come up with this convoluted way of doing things when there are much, much easier ways that would have just as easily been blamed on terrorists.

*sigh*

Yay Scorched Earth. IIRC correctly the shot you see in the clip is of the funky bomb
I think Scorched Earth was preceded by Gorillas in qbasic or am I wrong? Then after Scorched Earth came Worms, I loved those mine chain reactions.

Death is funny to me. Because its inevitable.

I know more about weapons of war than I care to.

You think that because I'm American I don't know what happens in countries where land mines are distributed by air, or designed to have chain reaction kill zones?

What a .40 caliber will do to impact on soft tissue? What a mark II frag will do when the spoon pops?

Or what an air bursting artillery shell will do to a squad? Or what a cluster bomb will do to a structure, let alone any living thing inside that house. Ive never seen it first hand, but I venture to say you haven't either.

Ive seen what a careless person in a minivan can do to a husband and his happy wife, laughing just before they get broadsided. Then being their to pick up the pieces.

Don't think that because I am American I am blind to land mines, and I know where half of the mines where manufactured.

That's the point of the video, to be absurd.

Easy stuff. The ruler pushes on the big wheel. The contact between the 2 produces static friction. According to Newton's 3rd law, every action there is an equal but opposite reaction so you end up with this chain reaction.

ruler pushes on big wheel to the right-->big wheel pushes back to the left-->contact with little wheels then causes them to go to the right-->wheels push on ground-->ground pushes back...cart goes right.

The reason it goes faster than the ruler is because of mechanical advantage. (Distance from effert exerted)/(Distance resulting from effort)

This is just way too dumbed down. "Not only is the sun the largest star in our solar system, it's the only one!" WTF

Is this correct?

The shear amount of mass that just makes up the sun is enough to cause that much pressure and heat to begin with because of the immense gravity having a role. If the sun were some significant amount less massive, it just wouldn't cut it.

Yep, that's correct. At the very core there are protons of hydrogen running around and in order for the sun to shine they need to get close enough together to fuse. (this nuclear fusion is the first step in the Proton - Proton chain reaction that converts hydrogen to helium). Since protons are positively charged they repel each other, so you need a lot of gravity to force them together, i.e. bigger sun. (They are repelled by the electromagnetic force and need to get close enough together that the strong nuclear force can take over and fuse them.)

Interestingly enough, the sun still isn't large enough to force them together, but it gets them close enough that quantum tunneling can take effect.

Look this stuff up and get into it. It's very rewarding and you'll be able to explain it to your kids.

While it's true that there had been theories that perhaps the chain reaction wouldn't stop and that the atmosphere would be ignited, by the time they had gotten to the point of detonating a device they were about as confident that it wouldn't happen as we are now about the LHC.

A bit like the LHC (but with more uncertainty as it was a completely new field)... when they first designed the atomic bomb, there were several theories about what would happen.

Some scientists figured that the atomic chain reaction would not stop. Each atom would hit the next atom breaking it up in to atomic particles flying into the next atom and so on in a chain reaction until the world was destroyed. Even Einstein, who had helped them crack the design needed for fission, wasn't certain.

They had theories, but they didn't know for certain what would happen. But as a military project, not a scientific one, it wasn't driven by logic or reason.

They took the risk and did it anyway.

BansheeX:Without defining what you think regulation is, I don't know how to respond.

I was being rather literal in my translation. I've basically gone through the whole video and restated what I believe Ron Paul is saying. I'm not really putting forward an opinion of my own.

I believe though that what Ron was alluding to ,and what I was calling 'regulation', was any kind of new or extra government intervention. The best thing the government can do is either nothing or ideally re-evaluate some of the fundamentals.

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>> ^FishBulb:
Okay this is my interpretation of what he is saying:


Without defining what you think regulation is, I don't know how to respond. Government can't direct or stabilize transactions between millions of people and industry, that was sort of the problem to begin with. The interventions that have inadvertently perverted capitalistic incentive and self-regulation are too numerous to list. It's hard for the common man to understand how it happened, it was a chain reaction from trying to prevent banks from ever going bankrupt because this is perceived as bad for the economy (just this sector, I know, it's hilarious). Let me give an example. If you're a big bank and the central bank via the approval your government friends you helped get elected says it will bail you out if you lose your risky bets on real estate, what action are you likely to take that you otherwise wouldn't have taken? Now that you don't have to worry so much about bankruptcy, you go ahead and hedge billions of dollars of other people's money on subprime and junk bonds when Wall Street was rating them triple A. This yields such a high return, you can offer 5% yields on savings account. Even though people are skeptical of returns this high, they can't pass it up because the Federal Government insures deposits up to $100,000 to dissuade runs on the fractional reserve system. As more depositors choose this bank for the high yield, other banks are forced to do the same thing to compete or lose all their business to this bank. Yeah, you see where this is going.

Here's something else that led to an abandonment of lending standards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_reinvestment

Basically, in the name of social progress, a bored congress one day decided to pass a bill that forced banks to make loans to extremely low income people. Apparently, the government felt that banks were discriminating or something by having lending standards at all. You can't make this stuff up if you tried. This stuff has ALL of its roots in government backstops and interventions, not spontaneous evolution of man becoming more greedy.

But yes, they should certainly be enforcing laws against the infringement of rights (which derive from property) and providing courts. The constitution would be a good start. *ba-doom boom ching*

>> ^FishBulb:
Okay this is my interpretation of what he is saying:


Without defining what you think regulation is, I don't know how to respond. Government can't direct or stabilize transactions between millions of people and industry, that was sort of the problem to begin with. The interventions that have inadvertently perverted capitalistic incentive and self-regulation are too numerous to list. It's hard for the common man to understand how it happened, it was a chain reaction from trying to prevent banks from ever going bankrupt because this is perceived as bad for the economy (just this sector, I know, it's hilarious). Let me give an example. If you're a big bank and the central bank via the approval your government friends you helped get elected says it will bail you out if you lose your risky bets on real estate, what action are you likely to take that you otherwise wouldn't have taken? Now that you don't have to worry so much about bankruptcy, you go ahead and hedge billions of dollars of other people's money on subprime and junk bonds when Wall Street was rating them triple A. This yields such a high return, you can offer 5% yields on savings account. Even though people are skeptical of returns this high, they can't pass it up because the Federal Government insures deposits up to $100,000 to dissuade runs on the fractional reserve system. As more depositors choose this bank for the high yield, other banks are forced to do the same thing to compete or lose all their business to this bank. Yeah, you see where this is going.

Here's something else that led to an abandonment of lending standards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_reinvestment

Basically, in the name of social progress, a bored congress one day decided to pass a bill that forced banks to make loans to extremely low income people. Apparently, the government felt that banks were discriminating or something by having lending standards at all. You can't make this stuff up if you tried. This stuff has ALL of its roots in government backstops and interventions, not spontaneous evolution of man becoming more greedy.

But yes, they should certainly be enforcing laws against the infringement of rights (which derive from property) and providing courts. The constitution would be a good start. *ba-doom boom ching*

It's not so much that they're breaking the objects is more the fact that the objects are not breaking them in return. These men have conditioned their bodies to the point that thier hands and feet are more like sledgehammers. It's a horrible price to pay, as you lose all the finer motor functions your hand was once capable of, but it is definitely possible to turn your hands and feet into very capable weapons.

This is definitely a demonstration of a "hard" style, emphasizing direct, powerful striking attacks. Kung Fu is more of a fluid "soft" style, though it has so many variations that it's difficult to make any sweeping generalizations and be 100% accurate.

I watched it a couple times and it all looks real enough to me. I've certainly seen more extreme examples of any of the breaks seen here. The important thing to remember with many of the examples is the spacers between the objects. With a kick like the first one, the martial artist only has to break two of those blocks of ice with a basic stomping kick. The force of his kick will easily carry through into the blocks below. It causes a very impressive chain reaction, but in terms of actual effort he may as well had just the first two blocks.

[redacted]

It's in related videos section.

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-pyromaniacs-Rube-Goldberg-chain-reaction

[edit] I see, the other is four minutes.

>> ^ashes2flames:
But it only takes one X-Wing to destroy a Death Star!


Yeah what the heck is with that? I mean seriously did the engineers really overlook that HUGE of a flaw?
"Hey boss, I just noticed that this small thermal exhaust port can cause a chain reaction that will blow up the entire project."
"Damit Wilson! We're on a deadline, we'll just send in a change order later and have the contractors fix it."
And we all know how long it takes contractors to fix things after their done building. Guess it was a big enough window to allow the rebels to blow it up. Actually now it seems quite feasible.