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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Boing Boing (boingboing) wrote: Steve Mould, Britain's Brightest's "science guy," showed that if you put coil a 50' chain of magnets in a jar and then casually toss out one end, the whole chain goes...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Dean Putney (deanputney) wrote: These do not appear to be magnets. Looks more like the kind of beaded chain you'd find connected to a pen at the bank.

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Stephen Schenck (stephen_schenck) wrote: Sorry to keep pointing out errors in your posts today Cory - no offense intended. Little wordfart here: "if you put coil" And like Dean said - where are you...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

JGS (jgs) wrote: Right you are, Steve Mould hisself says "The chain is the stuff from vertical blinds. The thing you pull on to open and close them." (see http://stevemould.com/siphoning-beads/)

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Dean Putney (deanputney) wrote: Those chains are far more interesting than the magnetic beads anyway. I wish I had a big jar full of those...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

JGS (jgs) wrote: Doing what Steve Mould suggests in his original article (search eBay for 'metal 4.5mm bead chain') reveals that you, too, can stop wishing and have your very own 50 m of beaded chain...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

A Norfleet (abenormal) wrote: So, no magnets, not a coil, and a colt who is doing meth is no longer innocent...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Vitaly Ivachin (danhibiki) wrote: indeed. a magnetic chain coiled up like that would be stuck together and not have enough momentum to un-coil itself.

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

technogeek (technogeekagain) wrote: Just for what it's worth: There have been versions of this with a looped chain and a motorized drive wheel. You don't get the siphon effect, but you can perturb it...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Boundegar wrote: So amazing. I think this is sort of like how a siphon works.

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Liam (Liam1) wrote: When he said he would hold it higher to get a bigger jumping loop I was expecting much higher. How about from the edge of a roof?

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

kmoser wrote: This looks like the Slinky effect.

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Tim Quinn (bbtimquinn) wrote: This needs to be done on a massive scale. With a really big ball chain and from a very great height. I would give a few dollars to a kickstarter for that.

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-27...

Kimmoth (Kimmo) wrote: An oil tanker's anchor chain off the Burj Khalifa.

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-28...

roomwithaview wrote: One thing nobody seems to have mentioned yet is that these chains have a fairly large minimum bend radius, and a bit of springiness when that limit is reached. Also, it's fairly...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-28...

Jonathan Roberts (jsroberts) wrote: Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought that.

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-28...

Richard_Kirk wrote: Why is this weird? Don't get me wrong - it looked weird to me at first. I watched the slo-mo and thought "It's like it knows where the edge of the beaker is, and it's avoiding it"....

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-28...

Neil Winkelmann (winkybber) wrote: I once had a whole colander of spaghetti siphon itself out and onto the counter top. Just a bit hanging over the edge was enough to get it started. I guess it was...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-28...

nowimnothing wrote: That is what I was thinking too, I suppose at some point you would get diminishing returns do to the weight of the chain in the loop. Also how would the size and width of the jar...

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50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar at 2013-06-28...

thesilentsun wrote: Watching the slow motion portions of this was beautiful. It's funny how slowing down video of almost anything makes it infinitely more pleasurable to watch. Why the hell is that?

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