Comments | davesbrain: Fizzics Fun with stacking

davesbrain

Fizzics Fun with stacking

Dec 28, 2006 10:14

I did not know this was possible. It's certainly intuitively incomprehensible.

You can stack bricks (or anything with a rectangular cross-section) so that they form a staircase that never falls over, no matter how far it reaches.

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freefloat December 28 2006, 17:25:00 UTC

Whoah.

I perfecly well understand how this is possible from a physics perspective, but seeing it actually in sction is just... whoah.

anonymous December 29 2006, 18:06:30 UTC

Very cool.

And because there is a pic and not a sketch on your blog, I am guessing that you have replaced your camera. Whadja get?

davesbrain December 29 2006, 21:51:45 UTC

A Canon SD630, as per this Dec 8 entry: http://davesbrain.livejournal.com/203215.html

anonymous December 30 2006, 22:42:46 UTC

That was a crazy/busy coupla days for me. Must've been why I missed that entry. I just unearthed the newspaper for that day - untouched.

I recently persuaded myself to buy a Pentax digital SLR. It's nice for work type pics, but I'll still be taking ye olde Canon Power Shot on vacation.

davesbrain December 31 2006, 06:20:43 UTC

"Pentax digital SLR."

Suh-weet. 10MP?

I've got my old Pentax K-1000 from college daze. Funny that - old and clunky as it is, it never NEVER ONCE said to me "Nnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyaaaahhh you really don't want to be taking that picture. Let's just wait a minute until everything stops moving. There'll be other once-in-a-lifetime shots."

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