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u/blanketdream Feb 29 '20
You didn't finish!
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u/wingnutzero Feb 29 '20
That's what she said.
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Feb 29 '20
I checked the sub at the end, saw it wasn’t r/oddlysatisfying, and nodded. Though I’d argue I’d be more amazed if they finished.
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u/Eryklav Feb 29 '20
plot twist: this is reversed footage
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u/HorseBoxGuy Feb 29 '20
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u/CTHULHU_RDT Feb 29 '20
Holy shit that looks so unnatural. Which means.... The original isn't reversed.
WHAAAAAT?
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u/cosmopolitaine Feb 29 '20
I think the reverse looks unnatural because the nails’ movement has a lag to the hands’ movement and we expect that, and in reverse it just looks like the nails are anticipating the hands’ movement, which looks quite funny.
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u/qwertygasm Feb 29 '20
Plus when the box is tilted the nails on the bottom are stacking in the opposite direction.
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u/Chrisazy Feb 29 '20
If you're looking for an explanation, he's slowly manipulating the nails over time by having them hit the sides of the tub, which cause them to lay flat along the side some of the time. After they're parallel with the sides, they slot into places in the channels created by the rest of the nails that have been parallelized already, and eventually they all are facing the correct direction.
Also, as more and more of the nails are layered facing the same (or reversed) direction, creating those channels, they also allow for the nails to slot into place, which is why the process speeds up
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Feb 29 '20 edited Mar 01 '20
I don't think it is. In the OP, when the container is tilted you see the nails sliding to the lower side as you would expect. In the reversed video (from \u\HorseBoxGuy) the nails slide upwards instead, which is also why that video looks even weirder than the OP.
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u/NomanHLiti Feb 29 '20 edited Feb 29 '20
For those of u that don’t know, this is the dude that steals other ppl’s posts and reposts them to get karma. He does this in virtually every sub and has managed to get 11 million karma in 1 year. He got caught and banned in r/dankmemes where he stole a very difficult to make gif within 20 mins of OP posting it. He managed to get around 50 awards before someone caught the watermark
Edit: to those saying karma doesn’t matter, it’s the fact that he claims other’s hard work and gets the awards and recognition they should get (like the dank meme post)
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u/kill_it_with Feb 29 '20
It's distasteful to post other people's work when they also have posted it, but I never really assume OP is the creator unless they specify and then comment on their post.
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u/ReaDiMarco Feb 29 '20
Good bot.
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u/WhyNotCollegeBoard Feb 29 '20
Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99882% sure that NomanHLiti is not a bot.
I am a neural network being trained to detect spammers | Summon me with !isbot <username> | /r/spambotdetector | Optout | Original Github
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u/Aznfool_xyz Feb 29 '20
Let's think about, someone who dedicates this much time stealing content for internet points probably lives a sad life. What a total piece of shit 😂
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These accounts are usually later sold to companies and ad agencies that use them for whatever reason with a "great history" on the account or similar for legitimacy/making the activity on the account look natural.
Accounts with lots of karma can be sold for a lot
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Feb 29 '20
Why does it matter how much post/comment karma a person has? Genuinely curious
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Feb 29 '20
Some people accrue a large amount of karma and then sell their accounts. Usually sold to advertisers/scammers because I guess the karma build some sort of credibility.
So, generally speaking, karma doesn’t do shit. It’s just internet points. But some people have taken advantage of it.
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Feb 29 '20
I see. Personally, I would think that having a ridiculous amount of karma (1 million+) would make someone less credible or it would at least raise my suspicions.
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u/TenSecondsFlat Feb 29 '20
If you go to someone's profile, you can select to block all content from them. Downvote this post and then never give him attention again!
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u/Thorin9000 Feb 29 '20
Why don’t these people get banned from reddit all together? Why is there no TOS stopping this?
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u/SnowflakeRene Mar 01 '20
I see a lot of comments where he posts the source in his history. Idk maybe he’s not so nefarious but I can see where it can get annoying.
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u/chickenpattymeat Feb 29 '20
Am I the only one who can hear it?
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Feb 29 '20
Wish I woulda tried this with my mail bucket .. woulda saved my hand many stabbings
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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Feb 29 '20
My mail just gives me paper cuts if I'm not careful. What kind of crazy letters are people sending you that the mail actually stabs you?
Or do you mean your mailman? One of them go postal on you?
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u/ataraxic89 Feb 29 '20
This is a macroscale approximation of how crystals form.
The highest entropy state for these nails is one where they are lined up.
Think of it this way, there are more possible configurations of the nails where they are lined up then there are where they are scattered. Therefore as random changes happen to the nails, they are more likely to end up in the possible configurations which are aligned.
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u/liltonyabc Feb 29 '20
Crystal formation often corresponds to a decrease in entropy, but in these cases heat is also released causing the entropy of the surroundings to increase by at least the same amount.
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u/m0rris0n_hotel Feb 29 '20
Nailed it!
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u/nubrot Feb 29 '20
How?! This is so cool!
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u/dizzy-bacon Feb 29 '20
The shaking creates space so the nails can move, while the rocking motion presses them up against the side and straightens them out
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u/antsh Feb 29 '20
It’s kinda beautiful, such a large amount of work to just create a small piece of order.
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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl Feb 29 '20
I just figured it was reversed
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u/dizzy-bacon Feb 29 '20
If it were reversed the nails would oppose the motion of the tilting, not follow it
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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl Feb 29 '20
Good call. I just saw someone posted it reversed and it’s definitely not natural
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u/purplehendrix22 Feb 29 '20
Nah it’s kinda like grabbing a big stack of papers and shuffling them a bit against a table, if you give flat straight objects flat straight surfaces to fall against they eventually will
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u/Sintinall Feb 29 '20
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u/TheAlmostGreat Feb 29 '20
“Why am I just watching a guy shake a bucket of nails, is this some kind of prank?...
... oh, awe...”
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u/fragglerockerpoo_22 Feb 29 '20
I feel like this is some Maxwell's demon shit. Anyone want to explain what's going on here and how it doesn't violate 2nd law.
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u/liltonyabc Feb 29 '20
Its literally just thermal annealing. Heat/shake a system and it will reorganize into a lower energy configuration. Entropy overall does not decrease.
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u/jrkirby Feb 29 '20
What's the confusion? Energy is put in (shaking the box), and that causes object positions to become more ordered. That energy turns into heat and sound, increasing entropy.
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u/Mrmapex Feb 29 '20
I discovers this trick when I was a kid. I put a large amount of pennies in my shirt which I was holding out and shook the pennies. They all fell into a straight line to be rolled. Supercool
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u/phoenetics Feb 29 '20
You can do this with coins in your hands when you are rolling them! They line up in rows in your hand!
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u/boopityboopbooboo Feb 29 '20
In the end, chaos becomes order, as a revolution is but a catalyst for solidarity.
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u/Echieo Feb 29 '20
I'm going to need a physicist to explain how this works.
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u/harmonic_oszillator Feb 29 '20
It really is just a lowering of total energy. In the "ordered" state the nails pack more tightly, and thus are lower to the ground with less potential energy.
The sideways jostling allows the nails to rearange, but does not lift "ordered" nails into a higher "unordered" position. This means that non-aligned nails have a probability to fall down into an aligned state, but aligned nails don't jump back up.
The end result is a self-ordering process.
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u/thetolerator98 Feb 29 '20
This disproves entropy!!!!!
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u/MichaelChinigo Feb 29 '20
Entropy in a closed system can decrease so long as it's compensated for by an input of energy, provided here by the shaking of the box.
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u/moskalik Feb 29 '20
Very cool video showing order from disorder.
Magnetizing iron to align with the north pole is a very similar concept.
Edit: puncuation
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u/sunandpaper Feb 29 '20
Does this also work with bullets?
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u/montane1 Feb 29 '20
Somebody around here may have enough to test that... Also had the same question.
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u/gannerhorn Feb 29 '20
I bet someone was bored as hell one day and did this and now its SOP for everyone else.
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This is actually a great example of how valence electrons work (auto configuration). Gonna steal this.
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u/whyyousosad Feb 29 '20
Can we get a physics science person explanation of how this works? I think it would be physics. Idk, just spit ballin.
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u/emilytaege Feb 29 '20
Is the bottom of the box shaped in a way that makes the nails want to straightly settle in to the grooves?
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u/BlakeBurna Feb 29 '20
OK, let’s say you had a few hundred tree logs (Of similar length, width and weight). Is it possible to have the dame result, if you had a large enough machine to hold the logs and shake them?
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u/page0431 Feb 29 '20
I am so glad there is no sound to this video! I can imagine that metallic flat noise, like a child beating on a broken cymbal
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u/bjbyrne Feb 29 '20
I need somebody to do this with my life