bannination wrote: "NOPE! Changed my mind, no way in hell am I doing that."
I've never been one to be afraid of heights.....but after watching that video, I think I would have to re-assess my bravery!
Yeah, I've got to say that it's not so much the height, it's having faith that every single builder/welder was having a good day and giving their best.
.... Oh, and that the company building it, didn't go with the lowest bidder.
bannination wrote:"Yeah, I've got to say that it's not so much the height, it's having faith that every single builder/welder was having a good day and giving their best." Yeah, I noticed that the grab-handles didn't look all that healthy, but the bolted together parts looked stable.
I wonder if someone had to climb that sucker to bolt those sections together...?
".... Oh, and that the company building it, didn't go with the lowest bidder." A clear violation of U.S. federal ethics standards; i.e., giving minorities the right to bid......
I wonder if the Dept. of Labor has seen that video...
Vrede wrote:Need scientific proof men are stupider? We got that
At least she credits you with being able to read.
If it weren't for "male idiot theory" I wouldn't have a job. I prefer calling it, "Hey Bubba, watch this."
Yes, or "hold my beer." (apparently) true story: one of the pro skiers who competes in free-style, I don't remember her name, was being interviewed about how she got into that part of the sport. She had been a downhill and a jumper. She said, "I watched some doing it (flipping, etc) and I said, "hell, I can do that - here, hold my beer."
Happy New Year to all! Today I decided to take the annual "polar plunge" a national New Years Day tradition. Of course, down here it's done in a hot tub
Physics may make it go around for a couple of revolutions, but physics would very soon put an end to it. And gravity would also have its say in the matter.
Vrede wrote:Not when the dropping weight is always 3 pounds heavier than the weight being lifted. Physics.
The 3lb difference is not enough to generate the energy required to keep the heavier weights in motion regardless of the length of the drop. One could increase the weight of each block and the length of the drop infinitely and it still would not work. This sort of apparatus may continue in motion for two or three revolutions, but after that it will slow down and eventually stop. The only approximation of a perpetual motion device ever conceived is the water wheel, in which a certain weight of water is acting against an empty bucket and even this is not perpetual motion because it depends on a flow of water.
JTA wrote:Perpetual motion machine. The answer to the worlds energy problems:
If the belt and wheels in your diagram presented zero resistance to motion, it would work. And if that were the case, the machine would work in a horizontal configuration; your diagram depends on the force of gravity, and that is also what dooms it.
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