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What Techies Do When They Have Nothing to Do

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Courtesy of NASA, where the techies have a lot of time on their hands right now, I bring you the greatest Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson if you’re British) contraption of all time. There’s even a quincunx in there somewhere.

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You have to watch to the end – it actually builds to a climax. Incredible.

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