Rottenseed's "Things to do" list:
1. Buy a rabbit
2. Look unsuspecting
3. Naptime

Haha, no I'm tracking with what your saying. I don't plan on investing anytime to soon.

In reply to this comment by rembar:
Herein lies the rub. A system in which energy is not being used will only lose energy through friction or other small imperfections in real-world creation, as in flywheels. Such machines, in fact, can be used to store energy through kinetic motion. In essence, it's the physical-motion brother to the chemical battery. But once you start actually using the machine, the energy is drawn out of the system and you need to start adding in more energy (as in, burning more wood or turning more cranks or spinning the wheel by hand). Magnets alone can't do this, we need to move the magnets or use some other process to move them for us, and the energy from the machine isn't enough to power more than that process's cost in energy (thus the law of conservation). You can't have your cake and eat it too.

This is why this magnet machine isn't a breakthrough. It's been invented before, and used before, many times, and it works, but it's not a crazy power-for-cheap machine. Every now and then some high-school dropout will come up with this idea on his own, then build it, and think he's discovered the answer to humanity's energy problems for all eternity, and then convince some sap of an unsuspecting journalist looking for that big break to cover his "amazing invention". And then engineers and physicists look at the thing, snort, and go back to work. It's such a common occurrence that I'm pretty sure I've read a sociology paper on the effect (and if not, I'm going to write one).

Anyways, hope this all makes sense. My advice: don't invest in any magnet machines you see advertised on Youtube.

In reply to this comment by arsenault185:
The rig itself might run for 5 years, but once you add on the resistance of powering an alternator, will it really work? I don't know.

Just a warning here for the unsuspecting:
this is gross. I didn't laugh. Weird. I laugh at everything.
No disrespect, though. Its original for sure. Just no vote, that's all.

You didn't have to upvote my queue for that, Kronos, but I appreciate it. I like to commit random acts of kindness on unsuspecting Sifters from time to time... just pay it forward.

This was so gut-bustingly funny to me that I pretty much HAD to submit it! Sorry about my delayed response to your comment, but thank you maatc, and you have impeccable taste!

In reply to this comment by maatc:
Yay! One of my favourite clips from the show!

That and where an unsuspecting pedestrian is chased back down an alley by a mob of bears and bunnys (opening scene of this sift). Oh and the Vegetable Misunderstanding of course!

Gosh there are so many.


Love it! Thanks!

Yay! One of my favourite clips from the show!

That and where an unsuspecting pedestrian is chased back down an alley by a mob of bears and bunnys (opening scene of this sift). Oh and the Vegetable Misunderstanding of course!

Gosh there are so many.


Love it! Thanks!

No Dag, Siftbot should be in the corner looking shady, pushing the smack that is VideoSift on innocent and unsuspecting students like myself!

Sorry about that... When I searched for this, I didn't find it... I'll make sure to be more careful next time...

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
Sorry man, this is a dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Unsuspecting-GTA-San-Andreas-player-hit-by-plane

Sorry man, this is a dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Unsuspecting-GTA-San-Andreas-player-hit-by-plane

junk. there is no pattern in that video. and even if there was what would be the point. now if they would have played that on some unsuspecting store detectives and gotten a similar result then you would have something worth raising eyebrows over.

The best people are unsuspecting people.

Loud horn + Camera + Unsuspecting People = Instant douchebag.

While we're on the topic, test cutting was not only popular, but vital for seventeenth century Samurai. One of the requirements for a worthy blade was that it must be able to sever a man in two (I believe from one side of the neck down to the opposite hip). What better way to test this than on an actual person?

Well, where did they find volunteers? They . . . didn't. It was considered perfectly acceptable (among the Japanese, at least) for Samurai to pounce upon unsuspecting foreigners (usually merchants) to perform a . . . test cut.

ren, I'm 100% certain that you and all of the rest of the conspiracy nuts on the intertron are NOT experts on building demolition, physics, etc. etc.

Like I said before, you might as well be telling me that Jesus Himself pulled the buildings down by His mighty hand; your preconceived notions of conspiracy is a belief stronger than any facts I could give you -- just like a fundamentalist.

It's pretty much a fact of life by now that when traumatic things happen to us as a society, there is a certain segment of the population that will turn it into a conspiracy, usually for no better reason than to try to make the shock, the horror, the confusion into pieces that fit - into a story palatable enough to agree with their tastes.

Sometimes a well-orchestrated terrorist attack on an unsuspecting citizenry is just a well-orchestrated terrorist attack on an unsuspecting citizenry...y'know?

The ONLY reason I vote for this is that pictures of him have always provided me with perfect link-bombs to blind unsuspecting friends with.

I couldn't actually finish the video though. I couldn't get past 14 seconds before self-preservation kicked in.