Pythagoras switch

[K.I.L.E.R]

http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1679

Is this what Chalnoth calls physics?

 

[davepermen]

this is just AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

wow.. simply cool. the dream of billions of children came true.. (well, doing such stuff was at least a dream of me.. )

 

[KimB]

No.

Pretty cool, though Some people just have too much time on their hands...

http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

 

[maaoouud]

Dattebayo is fansubbing it. I love it.

 

[Zaphod]

Watching that made me want to play The Incredible Machine again.

 

[weaksauce]

Damn what a lame soundtrack.

 

[zsouthboy]

awesome, but WTF do they keep saying?

 

[Zaphod]

awesome, but WTF do they keep saying?

Pitagora souchi [transcribed], which (according to Wikipedia) is the Japanese name for Rube Goldberg machines and means Pythagoras switch or Pythagorean Machine. The clip is supposedly edited from an educational TV-show by that name, featuring such machines at the beginning and end of each episode.

 

[KimB]

Damn what a lame soundtrack.

Heh, it's from a Japanese toddler's show, what do you expect?

 

[KimB]

Anyway, I'm willing to bet that for some of those machines, they had to run them a number of times before they got the desired result. Some of them in particular seem to have locations where the result would be slightly randomized.