I guess this is real...not sure quite how else it could be done:


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Couldn't he just walk over and just open the curtains himself?

what a Rube.

has college student (Purdue Theta Tau) written ALL OVER IT.

Like tape?

See the duct tape prom dress?

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Brilliant !

I have had the pleasure of photographing the National Rube Goldberg competition at Purdue
several times in the past, and got to see these machines up close - it's a real hoot.

The one posted is the most ambitious I have ever seen.

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awesome!

Amazing.

I don't get the chess board?

Is this animated or is that some sort of automated chess game or something?



If I was going to that much trouble, I would have got a Steadicam guy and a decent camera in for the day.

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What a Rube indeed! Trés cool! Very impressive.

I remember seeing electronic "analog" chessboards that moved the pieces via magnets, and that might have been the case here.

But some of that struck me as stop motion photography, especially with the King taking the traditional dive. A couple of the other moves after seemed like the result of outside kinetic assistance.

Still awesome. And if I'm wrong about the assist, then TOTALLY awesome.

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All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
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An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

The cell phone part was a nice touch. There were obviously some cuts in the video to accommodate switching angles as the device wrapped around the house. If there was only 1 camera then there were definitely multiple takes, which means that maybe the whole thing didn't work in one shot, but it looks like it could. Pretty cool anyway. I would have liked to see more power tools and fire though.

Someone liked (somewhat like) the Honda commercial ;)
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The chess board moves where accomplished by string, not magnets.

No stop-motion or "kinetic assistance" that I could see. I really don't think they would have used that, as it would not have been true to the spirit of the device (or Goldberg).

Overall, I'd have to say this is one of the most complete wastes of time I've ever seen.

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