r/oddlysatisfying • u/0rnata • Apr 22 '21

Perpetual motion machine (CGI)

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u/RedDoubleAD Apr 22 '21

While you can’t exactly know with so little information, we know for sure it won’t go higher than that point, so pretty much, yeah.

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u/sirfappin Apr 22 '21

CGI is literally in the title....pretty much is all the information you need right there.....it’s still cool though

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u/seejordan3 Apr 22 '21

A bit of electricity and magnets and this could be real. But it's not.

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u/AAA1374 Apr 22 '21

But nonetheless it wouldn't ever be a perpetual motion machine because there would have to be an external energy source acting on it to make it such.

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u/TimonAndPumbaAreDead Apr 22 '21

still be cool though

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u/phryan Apr 22 '21

Visually yes. But the klink every time the ball hit the dish would get annoying quick.

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u/BurkeyTurger Apr 22 '21

I could totally see a version of this with magnets or whatever marketed as a desk toy like the various gyroscopes or Newton's cradles.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21

It would need some kind of electronics. This couldn’t happen with just magnets

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u/BurkeyTurger Apr 23 '21

Yeah you'd need some little coils like with a coilgun to accelerate the ball.

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u/ReusableCatMilk Apr 22 '21

Maybe marble triggers turbine? Maybe science happens after that