The
other day I was busy meditating when suddenly a thought struck me rather hard
with some sort of mallet: when I rule the world, how am I going to get rid of
people who annoy me? I’m pretty frugal, so I don’t really want to have to contract
for an executioner. I’m also rather squeamish, and consequently do not wish to
perform the grisly deed of decapitation myself. Eventually, I devised a
workaround: a Rube Goldberg mechanism!
To
start, scissors cut a piece of string, which allows a wind-up motor to run,
which spins an axle that spins another axle attached to a motor, which is
hooked up to another motor and, by being spun, powers said other motor, which
spins a gear that spins another gear that spins an axel that spins a screw which
travels along the aforementioned axle and bumps a marble, which rolls down a
ramp into a spiral, then rolls down another ramp into a spiral, then rolls down
a third ramp until hitting a mousetrap, which yanks the head from the body (or,
in the case of Lego people, their torsos from their midsections)
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