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The 2011 Rube Goldberg competition tasked college students to create an overly complex device in the spirit of the famous cartoonists that completes an everyday task. This year, students were challenged to water a flower in as many steps as possible. The team from Purdue University not only won the competition, but beat the previous Rube Goldberg world record with a total of 244 steps.
The winning device shows the entirety of existence — from the big bang to the forthcoming apocalypse — and has many a bouncing ball bearing, and mechanized madness along the way. Congratulations to the winning team, and your prizes are, I'm sure, in the mail. Unfortunately, the delivery process will take well over 200 steps, so don't hold your breath.
(via Neatorama)
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