Comments on: Just when you think you’ve invented the perfect useless machine … https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/01/just-when-you-think-youve-inve/ Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Doug Kennedy https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/01/just-when-you-think-youve-inve/#comment-507460 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:31:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/01/just-when-you-think-youve-inve/#comment-507460 The music was PERFECT.
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]]> By: Richard Simons https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/01/just-when-you-think-youve-inve/#comment-507459 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:43:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/01/just-when-you-think-youve-inve/#comment-507459 IIRC, a similarly infuriating machine was described in an early New Scientist, in the late 60s (it had a hand that popped out).

]]> By: Mu https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/01/just-when-you-think-youve-inve/#comment-507458 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:17:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/01/just-when-you-think-youve-inve/#comment-507458 The real trick is to have a graduate student operate the machine 1000 times, documenting every attempt in his lab book – then let the machine run away at 999.

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