You can build one of these perpetual motion machines and amaze your friends

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: You can build one of these perpetual motion machines and amaze your friends | Boing Boing

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[Papasan]

Aren’t my feet “perpetual motion machines”?

[theophrastus]

neat! now put the electromagnet under a little ‘trampoline’ for steel ball bearings and have a perpetual one of these:

[anon52120741]

[theophrastus]

There’s a new multiverse mashup looming which features Shaggy from Scooby-Doo fame. How many are aware that Shaggy is such a old (~53 years) hippy that he’s based on Bob Denver’s Maynard G. Krebbs which you’ve so wonderfully referenced? (see Shaggy’s chin beard there?)

[generic_name]

I think the very concept of perpetual motion is the actual perpetual motion machine-- there are people out there who have been working on the problem forever.

(Sorry, is that an old one?)

[SenorSchaffer]

Because of your avatar I can only imagine that at some point you would sit down and proclaim, “Boy my dogs are barking!” as your big toe stuck out of a hole on the bottom of your shoe.

[AnthonyC]

“You can build one of these perpetual motion machines”

No, no, you cannot.