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What's Better than a Jet on a Treadmill?

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2013-02-19 05:06 in General Discussion
Over an hour of a coin rolling on a treadmill.

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/142067-jet-plane-on-conveyor

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2013-02-18 13:21
    Despite his confusion with it being a dime or a nickel, it looks like he might have a world's record for coin rolling. (Suppose they have a section for that?)

    Jeff
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-02-18 13:38
    I watched it for 20 minutes but saw no change
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-02-18 13:39
    Dang!! At 57:12, it goes off the back end of the treadmill, never to be seen again!!
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2013-02-18 15:12
    AAAARGH!

    You just had to spoil the ending....
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-02-18 15:38
    Gadgetman wrote: »
    AAAARGH!

    You just had to spoil the ending....

    Sorry. The book is really much better!!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-02-18 15:57
    The butler did it...!
  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2013-02-18 21:41
    and no CGI. Or was there?
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-02-18 23:55
    Though commonly called a 'treadmill' this is actually a walking machine.

    Engineers and the public in general seemed to have forgotten that fact that a true treadmill is powered by the animal or human walking on it and not vise versa.

    I'd call it a sloped conveyor belt, but the object or being that rides it goes nowhere... maybe it should be a 'nowhere machine'.

    Technology has been the latest of many persisent warps in reality.

    So now we have dogs, as well as people being exercised on these devices and the world may even embark on seeing who can roll a coin for the longest duration. There was a time when such things did not require power assistance. We just exercised, the coins just rolled.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-02-19 04:53
    How about an "anti-conveyer"? ...a "nonveyer"?
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-02-19 05:06
    It's certainly a very fit coin
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