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# Has anyone ever managed to do that perpetual motion thing with a slinky on an escalator?
Yay for return of SA.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:24, archived)
# I suspect that won't work
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:25, archived)
# Yeah yeah in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:27, archived)
# Theorist!
;-)
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:58, archived)
# But isn't the escalator's movement
adding potential energy to the slinky, thus making it alright?
(I helped save b3ta! Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:51, archived)
# You'd need a really fast escalator.
Health & Safety don't allow such things.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:27, archived)
# So you've tried it then...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:28, archived)
# Not with a slinky.
I used a homeless person.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:39, archived)