When Life Gives You Lemons

[csziggy]

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended.

We all need things like this.

[csziggy]

2. Yes - I needed a break from the hearing

And this gave me good laugh.

Also, check out my Boomwhackers thread for some fun. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181293517

[guillaumeb]

5. I just sent the video to a large group of people.

[tblue37]

37. Here's a behind the scenes video of them building a different house-sized chain reaction machine:

https://m.

[hlthe2b]

3. Someone has an enviable amount of spare time on their hands...

[csziggy]

4. I think they are college students

But it's great fun to watch.

[Newest Reality]

7. You could call it performance art...

If the channel is monetized, (which it seems to be) then there is some potentially good tip money to be had for all that work. Over 11.3 million views and lots of subscribers indicates that.

[tblue37]

38. The main guy (Steve Price) does this professionally. nt

[LeftInTX]

42. It's probably a form of college competition

My son did stuff like this, but he did robotics.

[Brother Buzz]

6. OK, any guesses how many times they had to film it?

I loved it, except for the faucet that remained running (until someone turned it off, off camera)

[packman]

8. Loved it - Hope they all got an "A" in Physics 101

[Midnightwalk]

9. Oh no you don't

That’s what i got told when i told my wife “now i have a reason to retire”

[intrepidity]

10. I am sooooo glad i dont live with that person! nt

[csziggy]

15. Check out the end - it's a team of five people

I said above that I think they are college students. I could see doing this over a break period to blow off steam from finals.

[broiles]

11. Brilliant!

[Stuart G]

35. NOT brilliant, just another STOLEN IDEA!!....from?... see posts 32 and 33.

[Karadeniz]

12. I didn't last as long as the performance, but what creativity!❤

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Oh, my.

Those are people with far too much time on their hands.

I want to know how long it took them to set that all up.

[keithbvadu2]

14. You earned it.

[JohnnyRingo]

16. Awesome. And not a single domino in the mix.

Very imaginative.

Thanx for posting!

[pansypoo53219]

17. takes too long. i just cut lemon into 4. squeeze 1 into some sugar + ice + add water.

[wnylib]

18. This year's must have Xmas gift for every household.

[zanana1]

19. I just finished watching it for the third time!

Quite a feat of engineering!

[Stuart G]

34. This guy stole the idea-NOT ORIGINAL AT ALL....see posts 32, and 33..

[MosheFeingold]

20. Point of Order

Lemons are a man-created hybrid between bitter orange (sour orange) and citron.

Life didn't give us lemons. We created them.

[tclambert]

21. The gentleman is not recognized.

[LeftInTX]

43. Point of Order

Meyer Lemons (citron mandarin/pomelo hybrid) and Ponderosa Lemons (citron/pomelo hybrids) are not real lemons

[Shoonra]

22. Just imagine .....

Just imagine what they could accomplish if they used their talents for good instead of evil!

[Saviolo]

23. Rube Goldberg would be proud.

[Stuart G]

36. Not Rube Goldber, but Fritz Freeling..(see posts 32 & 33)

[BigmanPigman]

24. Rube Goldberg lives on!

I love his illustrations.

https://images.app.goo.gl/bPzmttbg2juuXSTC6

[MarianJack]

25. I think I see a desperate need for...

...5 girlfriends and one boyfriend... And I'm a lifelong (64 year old) nerd. K&R anyway.

RESIST!

[DFW]

26. Someone has more free time on their hands than I've had in forty years. One question though......

At 3:18---WHERE did they find the oobleck?

[csziggy]

27. If it weren't green but black, it could be my molasses

I have a big jar of Slow As Molasses (brand name) blackstrap molasses. It's about 40 years old and I'm down to the last quarter cup of it. I ran out of brown sugar for my baking this week and you can make brown sugar by adding one tablespoon of molasses to one cup of regular sugar.

But this stuff is thick - I had to hold the jar upside down for minutes to get any out. I felt as though that was a segment out of that video!

[LeftInTX]

44. It's probably a form of college competition

Emphasis on engineering, thinking outside the box and team work. And probably patience!
If you're going to do something like this, it is probably best to do it as a team otherwise it's not fun or almost impossible.
Also many engineering students need to learn to be team players. The best team gets an award or advances to another competition. Engineers need to be able to think outside the box and this a novel way to teach it.

[DFW]

46. Even so

The only way I ever heard of anyone making oobleck started with "shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff....."

[secondwind]

28. Got tired of watching after 3 minutes. This person has too much time

on his/her hands.

[marble falls]

29. What a wonderful gift they were given, and a nice little thing to watch on a nice Saturday afternoon

[cp]

30. Fascinating!

Have never applauded a video before, but am clapping! Bravo!

[bluecollar2]

31. Hey boss...now that we can work from home

Look what we did on day off overtime!!!

[Stuart G]

32. Oh well..An earlier example (1988) (not the earliest) where idea came from. 3min 30 sec

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[Stuart G]

33. A 1947 version: just 3 minutes to watch it all(no time? watch the last 1 & 1/2 min)

Full version of this toon "Tweetie Pie", won Academy Award for best cartoon of 1947
....directed by Friz Freleng....(idea is 72 years old)

you will see the same thing, in a different variation....(where the idea came from)

[Saviolo]

40. Rube Goldberg was doing it in the 20's and 30's.

In fact the term "Rube Goldberg machine" was being used to describe machines that completed a simple task using overy complicated machinery as early as 1928.

From the Wiki:

The expression is named after the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg whose cartoons often depicted devices that performed simple tasks in indirect convoluted ways. The cartoon above is Goldberg's Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin, which was later reprinted in a few book collections, including the postcard book Rube Goldberg's Inventions! and the hardcover Rube Goldberg: Inventions, both compiled by Maynard Frank Wolfe from the Rube Goldberg Archives.[3]

The term "Rube Goldberg" was being used in print to describe elaborate contraptions by 1928,[4] and appeared in the Random House Dictionary of the English Language in 1966 meaning "having a fantastically complicated improvised appearance", or "deviously complex and impractical".[5] Because Rube Goldberg machines are contraptions derived from tinkering with the tools close to hand, parallels have been drawn with evolutionary processes.[6]

Full article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

[Stuart G]

41. Therefore, I was totally wrong, and Rube was totally correct....oh well back to the drawing board.

..............maybe I can find another cartoon of some other kind of machine, but Rube will be brought up
..............again and again and again.....perhaps I can try another toon, but...ain't got no time to look thru
...............the collection of toons again and again and again ..........Oye Vey !!!!!!!!!!!!

[2naSalit]

39. So when life gives you lemons...

you booby trap your house?

[LeftInTX]

45. It's a thing

I'm sure they're is a college version too..my son graduated from college in 2015, so chain reaction contests were not a thing, but it would have been right up his alley. Maybe when his son will be part of them. My son was in other engineering contests. Kept him out of trouble!

http://www.chainreactioncontest.org/

The Chain Reaction Contraption Contest (CRCC) is a spirited competition for students in grades 9-12 and is one of the exciting National Engineers Week events. The CRCC fosters an interest in engineering by challenging students to create a machine that will accomplish a specific task using a series of steps. The CRCC is sponsored by Westinghouse Electric Company, and presented in cooperation with the Carnegie Science Center.

The 2019-2020 contest task was to Make a Mess and Clean It Up! Check out the previous contest page for more information from this year's contest.

Under the guidance of an engineer mentor (optional) and a teacher sponsor, teams will:

Submit a preliminary design drawing.
Submit a series of progress photos that show the machine's evolution.
Build a machine that accomplishes the assigned task.
Demonstrate their machine and make a verbal presentation.

The 2019-20 CRCC was held on Tuesday December 10, 2019 at the Carnegie Science Center. It is on this day that the students demonstrated their machine and made the verbal presentation.

[csziggy]

47. Isn't that how the robot wars stuff started - student competitions?

This is a great idea for engineering (and other) students since it gives them hands on experience. Thanks - I hadn't heard about this.

[LeftInTX]

48. Yes. My son was in robotics